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...
Credit: Calum Ford Since the print publication of this article in June 2022, Palestine Action has successfully shut down Elbit’s headquarters in London. In February 2022, Amnesty International published a seminal report on Israel that should have been a trigger for...
A still from Zvenigora (1928) In 1928, pioneering filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein took a call from a representative of the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration (VUFKU), which controlled the entire film industry of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine, begging him...
CGI rendering of the plans for Etruscan Square in Stoke-on-Trent The holding of the penultimate Tory leadership debate in Stoke-on-Trent, a so-called ‘Red Wall’ constituency in the West Midlands, compelled both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to at least pay lip service to...
Map of CANZUK countries and dominions, RaviC, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Many of those who argued most fiercely that Britain should leave the European Union think we should have an alternative. One such alternative, entertained – or perhaps humoured – by many...
Photo credit: Nchssg’15 Economists, think tanks and journalists have spent billions of words trying to convince everyone that economic growth comes primarily from technological ‘disruption’ and investment by individuals in their own education and training, rather than...
Anti-EDL demonstration in Leicester, UK, 2012. Matt Neale, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Marx wasn’t referring to anti-fascism when he wrote that ‘the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living’, but it neatly summarises...
In 2008, Rizwaan Sabir was arrested at the University of Nottingham for suspected terrorism and, eventually, released without charge. His book The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State, details the traumatising legacy of surveillance, coercion and...