Imagining the Progressive Restaurant

In a country where so many people live increasingly lonely, bland, and digitised lives, food institutions can — and should — be bodies that place communal enjoyment before the whims of consumerism.

The Afterparty

Ejected and dejected, Britain’s fragmented left is exploring the possibility of a new political party. The odds are against a socialist alternative to Labour — but Keir Starmer’s leadership may be shifting them.

Cooking on the Breadline

The British food industry leaves thousands of those who feed us too poor to feed themselves — this is why many food workers are pressing back against low pay and exploitation.

The Saving Standards Scramble

In the coming years, climate breakdown will ravage the global food systems on which we depend, ushering in a new era of political instability.

India’s Farmers Are Facing Down Modi

Last year, India’s powerful farmer movement thwarted Narendra Modi’s plans to win an electoral supermajority. A communist leader of their movement explains how they’re turning the tide on the reactionary BJP.

Leonard Rossiter’s Ontology of Grot

An eccentric new book, ‘Code: Damp: An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms’, frames the sitcom career of British actor Leonard Rossiter as a conductor of strange energies unlocking the secrets of post-war Britain.

Solidarity Under Siege

For more than six decades, the USA has subjected Cuba to a blockade designed to destroy its economy — an act of aggression met with a global solidarity movement that has helped keep the country alive.

Gerry Adams: Starmer Waives the Rules

Keir Starmer is looking at ‘every conceivable way’ to block compensation for myself and over 300 people wrongly imprisoned in the 1970s — an arrogance in full keeping with the British establishment's imperial mindset.

Jeremy Corbyn: Remembering Auschwitz, Fighting Today

As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we must remember the heroic resistance of many inmates to inspire our struggle against renewed fascism today.

Solidarity Against the Law

The Met Police lied about disorder at Saturday’s Palestine march to justify mass arrests and intimidate sitting MPs — the culmination of a long campaign to drive Palestine solidarity off the streets.

Not All Working Bodies Equal?

From sex workers to migrant cleaners, a powerful exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection explores the histories of exploitation written on the bodies of workers.

Sixth Form Teachers Are Striking for Justice

Thousands of sixth form college teachers are on strike after being denied a pay rise given to other teachers. Their walkout shows that workers wanting fair treatment from this government will have to fight for it.

The New Property Feudalism

After being taught that education and work was the path to ‘getting on’, millennials have learnt the hard way that the vast wealth being inherited by the children of property-owning parents is far more important than any idea of social mobility.

Richard Burgon MP: ‘Sanction Israel to End Its Crimes’

Israel’s rampage through Gaza and land grabs in Syria are the actions of a rogue state that believes it is above international law — only sanctions can reign in its criminal behaviour.

Imagining the Progressive Restaurant

In a country where so many people live increasingly lonely, bland, and digitised lives, food institutions can — and should — be bodies that place communal enjoyment before the whims of consumerism.

The Afterparty

Ejected and dejected, Britain’s fragmented left is exploring the possibility of a new political party. The odds are against a socialist alternative to Labour — but Keir Starmer’s leadership may be shifting them.

Cooking on the Breadline

The British food industry leaves thousands of those who feed us too poor to feed themselves — this is why many food workers are pressing back against low pay and exploitation.

The Saving Standards Scramble

In the coming years, climate breakdown will ravage the global food systems on which we depend, ushering in a new era of political instability.

India’s Farmers Are Facing Down Modi

Last year, India’s powerful farmer movement thwarted Narendra Modi’s plans to win an electoral supermajority. A communist leader of their movement explains how they’re turning the tide on the reactionary BJP.

Leonard Rossiter’s Ontology of Grot

An eccentric new book, ‘Code: Damp: An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms’, frames the sitcom career of British actor Leonard Rossiter as a conductor of strange energies unlocking the secrets of post-war Britain.

Solidarity Under Siege

For more than six decades, the USA has subjected Cuba to a blockade designed to destroy its economy — an act of aggression met with a global solidarity movement that has helped keep the country alive.

Gerry Adams: Starmer Waives the Rules

Keir Starmer is looking at ‘every conceivable way’ to block compensation for myself and over 300 people wrongly imprisoned in the 1970s — an arrogance in full keeping with the British establishment's imperial mindset.

Jeremy Corbyn: Remembering Auschwitz, Fighting Today

As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we must remember the heroic resistance of many inmates to inspire our struggle against renewed fascism today.

Solidarity Against the Law

The Met Police lied about disorder at Saturday’s Palestine march to justify mass arrests and intimidate sitting MPs — the culmination of a long campaign to drive Palestine solidarity off the streets.

Not All Working Bodies Equal?

From sex workers to migrant cleaners, a powerful exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection explores the histories of exploitation written on the bodies of workers.

Sixth Form Teachers Are Striking for Justice

Thousands of sixth form college teachers are on strike after being denied a pay rise given to other teachers. Their walkout shows that workers wanting fair treatment from this government will have to fight for it.

The New Property Feudalism

After being taught that education and work was the path to ‘getting on’, millennials have learnt the hard way that the vast wealth being inherited by the children of property-owning parents is far more important than any idea of social mobility.

Richard Burgon MP: ‘Sanction Israel to End Its Crimes’

Israel’s rampage through Gaza and land grabs in Syria are the actions of a rogue state that believes it is above international law — only sanctions can reign in its criminal behaviour.