New Future

This month’s Gaza Tribunal showed that Britain’s complicity in Israeli devastation in Palestine threatens us all. If Westminster won’t deliver accountability, the public must.

As British life is degraded by toxic race and identity debates, Italian radicals and workers in Genoa — whose ensign is the St George cross — are harnessing the best traditions of the international Left in a heroic pro-Palestine strike.

Paralleling scenes across Britain, a summer of far-right phase shift climaxed in Newcastle this weekend, as ‘stop the boats’ marchers faced off against campaigners determined to defend the North East’s anti-racist heritage.

One of the clearest markers of Britain’s civic downslide in recent decades is the slow cancellation of its once plentiful provision of public toilets. But in Asian countries like Japan and Taiwan, another loo is possible.

As far-right populism approaches a terrifying crossover moment, the Left needs to think urgently about how to respond. Replacing anti-fascist strategies of the past with subtler forms of community engagement should be the first step.

In the West of Ireland, a theatre company with roots in the radical 1970s renewed its mission this summer with a double bill of Synge and Shakespeare. How does its narrative speak to our precarious political and cultural moment?

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.