New Future

From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.

On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima Day, Jeremy Corbyn continues the call for nuclear disarmament and world peace in a speech at the World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. We publish his remarks, edited for length and clarity, here.

As Israel continues its genocidal rampage, including the recent bombing of a church in Gaza City, the late Pope Francis’s legacy on Palestine stands in ever starker contrast to the Christians of the British cabinet.

Though it has recently become a byword for reactionary nostalgia, the Second World War was in certain crucial ways an extension of the ‘Red Decade’ of the 1930s. A modern anti-fascist Left must reclaim this inheritance — and avoid its shortcomings.

Recent clampdowns on protest under Starmer and Sunak extend a long-running war on the Left waged by the British state. Meanwhile, far-right forms of extremism are scandalously deemed low-risk ‘cultural nationalism’.

After nearly 21 months of unrelenting horror, the UK has called for the potential recognition of Palestinian as a state. But so long as it continues to aid Israel’s genocide, the promise to acknowledge statehood in September should be met with skepticism.

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath were a product of post-war Britain’s industrial heartland. But today, for Birmingham, metal, and young working-class people, those conditions could not be further away.

Labour MP Rachael Maskell and her colleagues were stripped of the whip after voting against government plans to cut Personal Independence Payments. In response, she looks to the legacy of social reformers Joseph and Seebohm Rowntree.

The new poetry collection by London writer Caleb Femi is a modern epic based on the institution of the ‘shoobs’ and its under-explored experimental potential.

As Britain undergoes its third heatwave of 2025, and Labour’s partially welcome Employment Rights Bill nears legality, there has been a glaring lack of attention to worker safety in hot weather. The government needs to act now.

Seventy years ago, the Congress of the People was broken up by apartheid police while discussing the Freedom Charter, a vision for a just society. The document remains a guide for building a free South Africa today, writes Mervyn Bennun, one of the meeting’s participants.

In the landscape of contemporary European politics, our rulers seem increasingly intent on walking us towards catastrophe — an ‘eyes wide shut’ approach that badly misremembers the cautionary tales of the twentieth century.

In suspending four MPs this week for 'persistent breaches of party discipline', the Labour government sank to new lows of incompetence and infirmity. In reality, the rebel MPs were guilty of nothing more than being too right, too soon.

A few weeks before Palestine Action was proscribed in Britain, anti-fascist French organisation Jeune Garde suffered a similar fate at the hands of the Macron government. Is Europe’s extreme centre trying to eradicate left activism?