New Future

Once a leading light of the European left, a series of crushing splits have seen Die Linke’s support base crash out and turn to the far right. Its demise is a warning for socialist parties everywhere.

From monarchism to eco-fascism, internet subcultures have given rise to a new generation of ‘e-deologies’. But what — if anything — do these online movements hold for the future of the Right?

In a novel that takes the form of a long email to an estate agent, poet Ella Frears explores the housing crisis through the abstract and automated technology of an increasingly widespread online lettings platform.

Is motherhood political? In a new book, Helen Charman examines how politics in Britain and the north of Ireland have been defined by motherhood as a state of radical possibility.

Notgeld was the money issued locally in Germany during the First World War and the tumultuous interwar period. What do these strange and experimental artefacts reveal about art and money?

The short-lived but lore-heavy career of early 1980s northern synth-pop duo Soft Cell is catalogued and reappraised in a compelling new oral history, from working-class 1970s Leeds to the excesses of downtown New York City in the 1980s.

After right-wing nationalists in Bolivia seized power in 2019, a mass movement restored the country’s socialist government — proof that it isn’t elites that protect democracy, but organised workers.

Although fascism has traditionally held little sway over the Irish people, it is a century-old movement — and one experiencing a well-funded renaissance.

In Martin Luther King’s era, Tribune provided an important platform to the civil rights movement in both Britain and the US, cementing the publication’s beliefs that racial justice was inseparable from the struggle for socialism.

Last decade, the philosopher G. M. Tamás saw the new European far right as ‘post-fascist’: a movement that fights for no real change, raises national passions, humiliates the vulnerable, and is utterly comfortable with globalisation’s grim realities.

Donald Trump’s victory came from leaning into working-class America’s anxieties over economic decline — and unless the Left’s economic offer becomes as strong, they leave the pitch open to the Right.

Thatcher's anti-union laws have brought misery to workers by restricting their ability to fight. If Labour's Employment Rights Bill fails to scrap them and empower working people, its efforts to change the workplace will be in vain.

The global movement to defend the Spanish Republic from fascism included scores of Salford people who volunteered in the International Brigades, raised funds and cared for refugees — a legacy that campaigners are hoping will be enshrined in a memorial.