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The commodification of Frida Kahlo
A new exhibition struggles to explain how the Marxist anti-imperialist became one of the most influential artists of all time, further commercialising her legacy.
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The age of founder control
Tech billionaires increasingly control our digital spaces, infrastructure, and society. How can we fight surveillance capitalism?
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Big Tech is turning A.I.’s dystopia into reality
A.I. Artificial Intelligence imagined a world where corporations sell artificial love to a society starved of human connection. Twenty-five years later, Silicon Valley is trying to build it.
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British Empire never left Ireland
In County Waterford, sheep farmers face eviction as the Duke of Devonshire’s estate imposes rent hikes of up to 900%—a stark reminder that British imperialism still shapes rural Ireland.
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Free Zone Island
From Freeports to AI Growth Zones, Britain is quietly being transformed into a network of deregulated corporate enclaves where democracy is replaced by private governance.
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Labour’s Gaza reckoning
The movement for Palestine has become one of the largest mass mobilisations in British history. Labour’s local election drubbing shows it is now beginning to reshape electoral politics.
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AI workers against the war machine
Google’s AI workers want to cure cancer, not kill for the US and Israeli military. That’s why they are now trying to unionise for the first time ever, writes an employee at DeepMind.
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Generation Kneecap is transforming Irish politics
As young voters across Ireland increasingly back Sinn Féin in opposition to partition, inequality and global imperialism, the party’s national chair, Declan Kearney, discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of this moment.
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Starmer is repeating Blair’s Iraq catastrophe
By allowing U.S. forces to use British bases to bomb Iran, Keir Starmer is echoing Tony Blair’s obedience to Washington—dragging Britain into yet another criminal war.
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Labour Together’s smear operation made this government
The Labour Together spying scandal shows how Britain’s mainstream press looked the other way when dirty tricks were deployed against the Left — allowing a culture of surveillance and paranoia to take political power.
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Liberal tyrannies
In a symbolic joining of older and contemporary struggles against apartheid, Francesca Albanese delivered the Nelson Mandela lecture this autumn. Did her address manage to bury the fiction of the ‘liberal world order’ once and for all?
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Socialism or Barbarism
Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute—and use them to take the socialist struggle onto the streets.
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Labour is paving the path to fascism
As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonizing vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.
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AI is a total grift
Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress—it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.
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Jeremy Corbyn: People have been denied an alternative
In a wide-ranging interview with Tribune, Jeremy Corbyn discusses his hopes for the new Left party, the potential for coalition building, and his determination to overcome sectarianism on the way to forging a truly democratic form of modern socialism.
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Airbrushing the ghettoes
From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.
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Laissez-Faire listening
The Swedish tech giant has rigged the music industry against artists, mined listeners for data, and made music boring for everyone. Or is that just what the major recording labels want you to believe?
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The anti-anti-Apartheid Movement
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right myths about South Africa’s ‘anti-white’ government is part of a brazen attempt to build a white international that runs from Pretoria to Washington through Tel Aviv.
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‘I’m Still Here’ is a story for now
The success of ‘I’m Still Here’ at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.
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Anti-Zionist Israeli MP: ‘I will never surrender’
Ofer Cassif—currently suspended from the Knesset for opposing genocide in Gaza—discusses Israel’s descent into fascism, building the movement that can defeat Netanyahu, and why he will never give up the fight for Palestinian freedom.
