
Tag: identity politics


Long Read: Identity Politics Is Dead, and the Far Right Knows It
Richard Seymour

Novara FM: How Do We Liberate People From Bad Ideas?

Opinion: English Feminism Needs A Kick Up The Arse
Moya Lothian-McLean

Novara FM: Identity Politics Hijacked
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò reframes a radical struggle with Eleanor Penny.

Analysis: The British Empire Wasn’t Just About Race
Kojo Koram
Young people are waking up to the fact that the British empire was not just about identity and race, but about poverty and wealth, democracy and control, writes Kojo Koram.

Ash Wednesday: What About the White Working Class?
Has the idpol-loving left abandoned the white working class? The answer is a bit more complicated than the Tories would have you think.

Opinion: Changing Your Mind is Good, Actually
Rachel Connolly
There’s something liberating about seeing your views as changeable rather than as an extension of yourself, writes Rachel Connolly.

Opinion: Everybody is Doing Identity Politics, Even If They Think They’re Not
Ash Sarkar

Novara FM: I Am Not My Work
Why are we told we should love our work? Sarah Jaffe joins James Butler to explain why work will never, and can never, love us back.

Opinion: Give White People Something to Do
Ash Sarkar

Opinion: ‘Family Values’ Without Class is a Dead End for Labour
Aaron Bastani
The family is often seen as the political territory of the right. But with child poverty skyrocketing and families forced into increasingly abysmal living conditions, it’s right that Starmer wishes to reclaim it. To do so, argues Aaron Bastani, he must move beyond platitudes to a message that puts class politics at its heart.

Ash Wednesday: Are Right-wingers an Oppressed Minority?
Ash Sarkar explores how the language of minoritarian grievance has been appropriated by the most powerful people in political media.

Opinion: Lawfare is an Attack on Free Speech and a Threat to Democracy
Keir Milburn
A journalist suing his critics is an egregious attack on democratic norms, writes Keir Milburn. To fight back effectively, we must situate attempts to silence the left within a wider, global trend of limiting democracy and extending free speech only to those who can afford it.

Interview: Ash Sarkar Meets Akala | Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Long Read: Lessons for the Anti-Fascist Left From a White Supremacist Conference
Matt Broomfield

Dangerous Women: Feminism, Class Struggle, and Self Care
Rosa Soros
