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Why football matters in Algeria

Why football matters in Algeria

Algeria’s Islam Slimani challenges for the ball at AFCON 2013. Credit: Magharebia Algeria’s performance during the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup offers a number of interesting insights into the social and political context of the country itself. The tournament was won by a...

Review: Always Red

Review: Always Red

Image via unitelive.org As a teenager, incensed by the half-wages paid to young workers on the Liverpool docks, Len McCluskey organised a successful strike among his fellow clerical workers to remedy the inequity. He was soon elected as shop steward, cancelling his...

Young, left and marginalised

Young, left and marginalised

Placard at Global Climate Strike in Germany, 2019. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The final weekend of September 2021 saw the return of the long awaited left-wing political festival, The World Transformed (TWT). Labour’s left turned up in force, including MPs,...

New normal, old struggles

New normal, old struggles

A watchtower overlooking the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre (Credit: Gino Reyes) Ashish Ghadiali: You’ve said you don’t want to just go back to ‘normal’ after the pandemic. What has got to change? Sohail Daulatzai: Well, first off, you and I both know that ‘normal’ –...

Review: The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution

Review: The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution

Image: Jonny Gios via Unsplash When the late Rhodri Morgan, as Labour’s First Minister of Wales, said that there was ‘clear red water’ between his administration and the Blair government in Westminster, he was attempting to put distance between the two countries and...

Review: Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Review: Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Image: Penguin Books Freedom is the beguiling yet nebulous concept at the core of a spate of recent publications. Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint muses on and revels in the word’s indeterminacy, while Olivia Laing’s Everybody: a Book...

The lasting legacy of Raymond Williams

The lasting legacy of Raymond Williams

Photo courtesy of the Raymond Williams Society 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of Raymond Williams, an important thinker and writer on the British left. Born in the village of Pandy on the Welsh border, he went on to study at Cambridge, fight in the second world...

Dawn Foster: a voice from the sharp end

Dawn Foster: a voice from the sharp end

Dawn Foster, who died suddenly at home in July, was so much more than a talented journalist. Raised in Newport, Wales, she was the rarest of public figures – a high-profile, working-class voice in Britain’s media landscape. On television and in print, Dawn was one of...

Cryptocurrencies: a view from the left

Cryptocurrencies: a view from the left

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele, who accompanied his declaration that cryptocurrency would be recognised as legal tender in June by changing his Twitter profile pic to this version of himself with glowing laser eyes (Credit: Nayib Bukele) The use of...