The New York Stock Exchange. Photo by David Blaikie (licensed under CC BY 2.0) A critical examination of capitalism shows it can only function on violence. The sources of this violence vary extensively, from government military expenditure, surveillance and borders to...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visiting BAE Systems Warton in Preston, Lancashire (Credit: Andrew Parsons) With global military expenditure reaching record highs in 2021, before Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine, it is increasingly clear that the military...
Joe Strummer in 1980, via Wikimedia A songwriter of some political consequence, Joe Strummer was a wordsmith who articulated so passionately that you might feel yourself compelled to follow him anywhere and fight for the righteous cause. For some, experiencing the raw...
Churchill statue, 2020 Black Lives Matter protest. Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash. In the vast literature on Churchill, Tariq Ali’s latest book is path-breaking in two respects. First, who else has provided such an unrelenting, and convincing,...
‘Please spare a thought for people like me who have been tasked with the responsibility of looking after the 500-acre estate that’s been in the family for 950 years’ While people across the country moan about the so-called ‘cost-of-living crisis’, please spare a...
Photo by Cesar Harada (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0) The pandemic threw new light on problems that have existed for decades. National Education Union (NEU) members, who worked so hard to set up online learning, got to look, quite literally, into children’s...
Credit: Richard Sutcliffe Here in the UK, you could be forgiven for thinking that proposals for rent controls were a fringe, far-left idea. But zoom out just a little, and almost every other country in Europe has some kind of regulation over what landlords can charge....
Jeremy Corbyn at The World Transformed, Liverpool, 2018. Kevin Walsh from Preston Brook, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons When the left suffers defeat on the scale of the 2019 election, it takes a long time to heal. Think of what happened to Chartism after...
Sunrise over Taipei. Photo credit: Chensiyuan Following a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Chinese government announced four days of live-fire drills around Taiwan. The drills were framed by the Chinese government as a blockade and, though they...
Protestors against the arms fair at London’s Excel Centre, September 2017. Photo by Steve Eason Unsurprisingly, all major arms-producing nations sell arms to active war zones. The UK’s role in arming and sustaining Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen is one of the most...
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The Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol in 2013. The theatre would be hit by a Russian airstrike on 16th March 2022, killing up to six hundred people according to The Associated Press (Credit: Mykola Swarnyk via Wikimedia Commons) As Russian tanks...