Propser Kaba, Chris Kaba’s father, addressing a workshop on institutional racism (Picture: Ken Olende) Up to 500 trade unionists took part in the Fighting for
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, is expected to announce her bid for president this month. As a South Carolinian, I can tell
In Russia, mounting authoritarianism and the wartime crackdown on dissent have hobbled trade unions. A five-day strike by food couriers showed that at least some
A memorial to the victims of the Hillsborough disaster (Picture: Wikimedia/Creative Commons) Hillsborough justice campaigners have slammed an apology from the police over three decades
Striking energy workers marching against pension attacks (Picture: @MinesEnergies71) Energy workers in Marseille and other French cities aren’t just going on strike against attacks on
House Republicans have wasted no time in red-baiting the Left, and the centrist leadership of the Democratic Party has apparently been happy to join them.
Some Democrats apparently thought voting for the GOP’s ludicrous anti-socialism resolution would keep them safe from Republican attacks. They’ll find out soon enough how wrong
Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913. Far from being a face of respectability politics, she was a defiant and seasoned working-class organizer
Climate protesters target Shell in Pittsburgh, United States (Picture: Mark Dixon) Planet killing oil and gas company Shell stole its highest profits in its 115‑year history
Two million anti-war activists march through London to oppose the Iraq invasion in 2003 (Picture: William M. Connolley) Not a single Labour politician is today
A series of walking tours in Manchester show how neoliberal urban space systematically excludes anyone without money – and some unexpected ways to fight back
The US-dominated economic order constructed after Bretton Woods did not take the Global South into consideration. A new, just system will have to change that.
As public officials across America prepare to funnel even more of government workers’ savings to private equity moguls, they risk gambling away public retirement money
Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne’s new detective show, Poker Face, is a brilliant working-class riff on Knives Out. Natasha Lyonne in Poker Face. (Paramount, 2023)
Jaice Titus reviews Spare, and finds Harry trying to repackage himself from prince to global media influencer – but without the self-awareness to make it
Few scenes are as emblematic of the barbarism of American capitalism as the now-routine “sweeps” in which police round up homeless people and destroy their
For years, Britain’s political system has crumbled under the pressure of its failing democracy. But Gordon Brown’s proposals to shake up Westminster institutions could point
Following every juicy, unhinged twist and turn of Rod Dreher’s writing is trash TV for leftist intellectuals. Rod Dreher. (Elekes Andor / Wikimedia Commons) For
Ilhan Omar has been kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The move is a backhanded acknowledgment by her enemies of her unusual effectiveness as
Even a drop in house prices won’t make it possible for most young people to get on the property ladder. The only real answer to
J. D. Vance, the faux-populist senator from Ohio, says that Donald Trump “kept the peace” as president. He has a short memory. Ohio senator J.
After the end of French colonial rule, Algeria’s first government began to promote workers’ self-management in the “Mecca of Revolution.” But a backlash by conservative
Pakistan’s finance minister senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar The Pakistani state could soon follow Sri Lanka into a crisis of bankruptcy and spiralling inflation. If it
Israel’s air strikes on Iran highlight the risk that Israeli bellicosity and Biden administration fecklessness could combine to produce a disastrous regional war in the
The City University of New York is the crown jewel of the city’s once-robust welfare state, a vital resource for working-class New Yorkers. Mayor Eric
Abellio bus workers in Camberwell, south London struck alongside half a million other workers on Wednesday Bus drivers in south London marked their 22nd day
With pharma giant Moderna planning to quintuple the price it charges for its COVID vaccines — developed using taxpayer dollars — the case for nationalizing
The bootstraps narrative is near and dear to Americans’ hearts. But it’s a fiction, one that obscures complex relationships of interdependence and generates a culture
Emmanuel Macron plans to raise France’s retirement age — but this Tuesday, well over a million people mobilized against him. One of the biggest social
On the evening of June 14, 2017, an electrical fire broke out on the fourth floor of a West London high-rise apartment block. This fire
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