New Future

The inglorious stitch-up of the Labour deputy leadership contest is the work of a government retreating into irrelevance for the sake of factional gain. It’s time for the Left to fight back and recover the party’s soul.

The fallout from Angela Rayner’s resignation last week is threatening to fatally undermine the Starmer government — as a power-crazed McSweenyite rump battles spiralling chaos, and Labour's deep bond with the unions comes under existential threat.

Following a single vessel’s progress from US prison ship to migrant workers’ barge, a new book highlights global capitalism’s reliance on brutally exploiting workers, degrading national democracy, and operating as a law unto itself.

To undercut the far-right and strengthen the power of workers, we need to urgently deepen the purpose of the Trades Union Congress through real democratic reform.

After publishing her seminal text The Dialectic Of Sex, feminist activist Shulamith Firestone largely withdrew from public life. But her recently reissued 1980s fiction contains impassioned cries against social marginalisation and abandonment.

As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.

As violence on the West Bank continues unabated, Israel appears intent on destroying Palestine and its people, erasing their identity, culture, and autonomy — in life as well as in death.

Ahead of a crucial vote at the TUC's annual congress, UCU general secretary Jo Grady argues that the labour movement must oppose right-wing militarism and embrace the Bevanite tradition of putting social welfare before defence.

Governments globally are failing to combat climate change because they prioritise profit over the planet — for real change, the capitalist mode of production must be overhauled.

The little-known existence of D-Notices — where major media institutions voluntarily censor themselves in the name of the ‘national interest’ — is central to understanding British journalism’s dirty relationship to state power.

Decades of corporate landlordism have devastated British housing and squeezed its tenants. To fight back, the Left should emulate Zohran Mamdani’s energetic, street-level community housing campaigns in New York.

As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonising vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.

Pro wrestling is often associated with the Right, but a new character has become popular for championing solidarity and workers’ rights, reflecting the growing economic precarity of its fanbase.

People are rightly outraged at the ongoing inability of Keir Starmer’s government to challenge the genocide in Gaza. But when we consider Britain’s murky imperialist past, we shouldn’t be surprised by such behaviour.