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Reporting back from the three assemblies at The World Transformed that attempted to diagnose and overcome the impasse of the British left, Lewis Hodder details the varying levels of class consciousness of the crowd that coalesced around criticism of the leadership of the new left party.
Madeleine Norman, of the Filton 18, reflects on their time in prison after a suicide in HMP Low Newton. In prison, as in occupied Palestine, the spectre of death is constant, and Norman emphasises that as much as death has the ability to galvanise resistance we cannot wait for more death for people to join the struggle.
In this interview, Louis Allday and Patrick Higgins reflect on Syria and its complicated relationship to Palestine, covering the overthrow of the country’s government in December 2024, which was the culmination of over a decade of US-led aggression and subversion against it, to why the fate of Syria is so important, not only for its own people but for the wider region and beyond.
Moulded by its own fealty to the Treasury, rentier capital, and a declining Atlanticism, Starmer’s vision for the British economy is an attempt to kickstart growth that is weighed down by its own contradictions. In this article, Jonas Marvin details this growth mindset that is hindered by its own authoritarianism amidst the breakdown of the US-led global order, the decimation of living standards,…
In May 2024, the student movement in Gaza saluted the global student movement – acknowledging student organisations across the globe as a vanguard integral to the Palestinian Liberation movement – but with the crucial caveat that it must escalate its tactics. While the ‘student intifada’ has invigorated the Western solidarity movement and sections of the left in general, the student movement still…
In this interview with Ira Terán and Emrys Travis, Sylvia McCheyne discusses what exactly trans Marxism is, how it is so often a foil against mechanical applications of dialectics, and why it is so important to organising and what comrades in the UK and elsewhere can learn from trans struggles.
At a critical moment, Habash’s 1973 speech reminds us that a resistance movement grounded in an oath to the martyr can never die.
Detailing how US-based intellectuals on the left are always ready with critiques that deliberately obscure the imperialist siege against Venezuela every time Bolivarian Revolution is faced with renewed threats to its survival, Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz investigate these ostensibly left demands that the Maduro government cede power to the fascist-led opposition that seeks its destruction.
In this interview, Alfie Hancox sits down with Alma of the University of Birmingham Palestine solidarity encampment to discuss how the camp began, developed internally, and now their desire to engage with the radical tradition of the university, including the legacy of Stuart Hall, to take their anti-colonial and anti-racist activism into the wider city.
Describing their personal experience of the riots in Sunderland and Middlesbrough, Sophia Alderson affirms that, although the demonstrations in Newcastle and other cities were inspiring and a much needed salve for the immediate threat of fascism on the streets, the left must organise wherever the fascist threat materialises and not abandon communities to fascism.
