• Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), Untitled [Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird], 1940. (Credit: Nickolas Muray Collection of Mexican Art, 66.6; Harry Ransom Center; Tate galleries.)

    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.

  • Everyone Hates Elon group is aiming to “piss Elon Musk off, one small action at a time”

    The age of founder control

    Tech billionaires increasingly control our digital spaces, infrastructure, and society. How can we fight surveillance capitalism?

  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence has become one of cinema’s most prescient meditations on loneliness, capitalism and artificial love.

    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.

  • Farmer and cow sculpture, Clough

    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.

  • The expansion of free zones is rewriting Britain’s democracy in favour of corporate power. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    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.

  • The local elections saw voters punish Labour for its pro-Israel stance. (Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

    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.

  • Google DeepMind offices, London. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    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.

  • Sinn Féin’s internationalist republicanism is increasingly in step with a younger generation in Irish politics. (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

    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.

  • A plume of smoke rises after an explosion on March 2, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Credit: Majid Saeedi via Getty Images.)

    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.

  • Former Labour Together director and now Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons is at the centre of Labour’s spying and smearing scandal. (Credit: House of Commons)

    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.

  • Francesca Albanese

    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?

  • Zarah Sultana speaks with Jeremy Corbyn after addressing an audience at The World Transformed in 2021. (Credit: Leon Neal via Getty Images.)

    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.

  • A woman fails to board a migrant dinghy into the English Channel on August 25, 2025 in Gravelines, France. (Credit: Carl Court via Getty Images.)

    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.

  • Ai-Da Robot, the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, appears at a photo call in a committee room in the House of Lords on October, 2022. (Credit: Rob Pinney via Getty Images.)

    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.

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    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.

  • At the heart of the pogrom group, an individual wearing a white armband can be seen. This is the distinctive sign of the members of the Ukrainian militia, who are, for the most part, members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN, particularly its most radical faction, led by Stepan Bandera, the OUN(B). (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leonard Lauder)

    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.

  • Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

    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?

  • A poster of Nelson Mandela decorates a wall in Johannesburg, 2020. (Credit: Gregory Fullard via Unsplash)

    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.

  • Still from I'm Still Here. (Credit: Alile Onawale / Sony Pictures Classics)

    ‘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.

  • Ofer Cassif, a member of the Joint List, has been suspended from Israel's parliament. (Credit: LGS)

    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.