New Future

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?

Since the government’s proscription of Palestine Action earlier this month, dozens of protestors have been arrested for expressing support for the group. Will their upcoming High Court case be a victory for genuine free speech or unbending authoritarianism?

Big Tech’s dystopian ideas about the future highlight the fundamental pessimism behind their billion-dollar businesses and peculiar lifestyles. Tom Midlane spoke with Émile P. Torres about the shortsightedness of their increasingly influential outlook.

Visionary Japanese sci-fi author Izumi Suzuki anticipated our present malaise decades ago, in writing that combines melancholy for the failure of sixties radicalism with scepticism about a world of ubiquitous screens.

As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.

It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee — a ‘left behind’ former mining town in County Durham — utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.

In the first of a series of pieces leading up to Saturday’s Durham Miners’ Gala, we examine a forgotten corner of County Durham with a strong claim to be the one of the global birthplaces of the industrial proletariat.

In a media landscape where nuanced political breakthroughs are often credited to ‘genius Svengalis’, spin doctor Morgan McSweeney has become the crown prince of Starmerism. But now his fragile empire is crumbling to dust.

In a sport dominated by capitalist exploitation, Portugal and Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota – who died in a tragic accident this week – offered a purer form of joy that empowered people to feel hope in the face of adversity.

As the Labour government criminalises Palestine Action under anti-terror laws, impromptu screenings of a new documentary about the group’s relentless campaign against the arms industry have spotlighted widespread public support for their cause.