The working class is fragmented in its politics, including its support for different parties or no party at all.1 The existence of these divisions is not an accident of history that can be wished away. It reflects ideological currents rooted… Continue Reading
The British state’s assaults on the Palestine movement, Kurdish activists, Just Stop Oil members and others in 2024 and 2025 is a serious challenge to our right to protest and to organise.1 The arrests at the national demonstration for Palestine… Continue Reading
The global surge of attacks on abortion rights has been a wake-up call for pro-choice activists in Australia.1 In June 2022, thousands rallied in solidarity with women in the United States when Roe v Wade was overturned by the US… Continue Reading
There are few areas of the global economy where fever dreams of crisis, competition and war are so tightly interwoven as they are in the production of what is misleadingly called Artificial Intelligence (AI). The phalanx of smirking tech bros… Continue Reading
“For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country”.1 —Enoch Powell, the “Rivers of Blood” speech, 20 April 1968. “[W]e risk becoming an island of strangers”.
Trump’s second election victory has dealt a severe blow to the idea that people see politics through the prism of identity.1 Kamala Harris did not win enough votes from women or black men to secure victory. Commentators and activists are… Continue Reading
The January-February issue of New Left Review, the latest to reach us, is among the most interesting editions in recent years. It includes a short update on Donald Trump’s return to power by the editor, Susan Watkins. The emphasis here… Continue Reading
A review of Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by Ralph Dutli, translated by Ben Fowkes (Verso, 2023), £25 In November 1933, in the midst of the Stalinist counter-revolution, the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) began to recite a poem in the… Continue Reading
A review of From Value to Uneven Development: Selected writings by John Weeks in the Marxist tradition edited by Ben Fine, Simon Mohun, Alfredo Saad-Filho (Brill, 2024), £110 This book brings together a selection of the theoretical writings of the… Continue Reading
A review of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland (John Murray Press, 2023) Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian journalist and liberal Zionist who accused Corbyn of antisemitism. Currently, he… Continue Reading