-
Working class films and social change: An interview with Ken Loach
Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people.
-
Church of England urges ‘Israel’ to stop ‘relentless bombardment’
The Bishops of the Church of England urge ‘Israel’ to comply with the rulings of the International Court of Justice, and guarantee that Palestinians have access to necessities such as food, water, healthcare, and safety.
-
Stuttering economy betrays ever-present crisis in capitalism
WHEN an economy shrinks, as did the British economy last month, it triggers an alarm bell to all those who live not by their labour but by ours.
-
Half a million march for Gaza in London as peace demos take a stand across Britain
The protesters spoke with one voice—“Ceasefire now!”—directing their message at the Tory government which licenced the sale of weapons from Britain now being used by Israel in the accelerating massacre.
-
‘The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England’ – book review
Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World gives a vivid and illuminating account of the revolutionary seventeenth century in Britain, finds Waseem Ahmed.
-
Engels: How North West England shaped an internationalist
Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.
-
The illuminating influence of Eric Huntley
When I sat down with Eric Huntley it was under the premise of interviewing him about the new community garden that he has established—along with filmmaker and organiser Sukant Chandan—in the London borough of Ealing, just minutes away from where he and his late-wife, Jessica Huntley, ran their bookshop and publishing house.
-
Shelley’s revolutionary poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets—and arguably the greatest.
-
The UK economy is crushed – Analysts
According to the head of macro analysis at Saxo Bank, the only thing holding back the UK economy from turning into an emerging economy country, given the inflation and political instability, is the lack of a currency crisis.
-
Against enclosure: The commoners fight back
Articles in this series: Commons and classes before capitalism ‘Systematic theft of communal property’ Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back by Ian Angus In 1542, Henry VIII gave his friend and privy councilor Sir William Herbert a gift: the buildings and lands of a […]
-
Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor. CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 4
-
They’re killing him: Assange’s stroke reveals the Western version of the Saudi bone saw
They are killing Julian Assange. Experts agree that they are killing him. Assange’s stroke is just another item on the mountain of evidence we already had for this.
-
75 years & counting: a history of Western regime change in Syria – Part I
Washington and London’s latest war against Syria was incubated in CIA and MI6 offices long before the manufactured “uprising” erupted in 2011.
-
Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture.
-
‘Marx in Soho’: An Epilogue
In 1999, Howard Zinn published the sensation ‘Marx in Soho: A Play on History’. The story began with Karl Marx petitioning Heaven to come back to Earth for a short while so that he could “clear his name.”
-
Optimism of the will‑a few reflections on the impossible rebellion
Rob Marsden reviews the impact of the recent Extinction Rebellion mobilisation in London.
-
The condition of the working class
Everything changes and yet everything stays the same.
-
Brilliant exposé of Neoliberal doublespeak
The Museum of Neoliberalism, which this month welcomes back visitors, is a brave undertaking, full of ironic and hilarious twists and takes, deploying a wicked Orwellian double-think to mock and expose neoliberal marketing and branding.
-
The arts, trade unions, and working-class identity
Anthony D. Padgett reflects on the arts, trade unions, and working-class identity.
-
A day in the death of British justice
The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.