Long Reads

The Parenthood Dilemma by Gina Rushton
Long Reads

The Parenthood Dilemma: Decisions in Our Age of Uncertainty by Gina Rushton review

Parenting in a era of capitalist crisis

02 November 2023
Long Reads

How Israel exports its terror

Reviews of The Palestine Laboratory and Pegasus

25 August 2023
Long Reads

How the British Empire exported homophobia

A history of diverse sexualities in Africa

22 August 2023
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How capitalism was born in ‘robbery, violence and fraud’: The War Against the Commons by Ian Angus review

But it created its own gravedigger

12 July 2023
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Why does the US back Israeli terror?  

Don’t blame a lobby

07 July 2023
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Dispatches from the Diaspora by Gary Younge review: anti-racist struggles from South Africa to Black Lives Matter

Reporting on the struggle

03 May 2023
A modern building with a Silicon Valley Bank sign across the top, in front of a deep blue summer sky
Long Reads

Financial markets: there’s trouble ahead, the rich should pay the bill

Crisis is deeper than banking

26 April 2023
Dalian Atkinson police state
Long Reads

Why the Met cannot be reformed

Understanding the role of the police

17 April 2023
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The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan review: how do societies respond to climate change?

A global history

13 April 2023
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Is prison abolition possible?

Prison doesn’t work, but what’s the alternative?

12 April 2023
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The Left in China by Ralf Ruckus review: saying China’s state capitalist isn’t about semantics

Workers vs the Communist Party

09 March 2023
Nicola Sturgeon behind a speaker's podium
Long Reads

‘Neoliberalism with a heart’—the verdict on Sturgeon’s SNP 

It was far from caviar under Sturgeon 

23 February 2023
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‘We don’t need to convince, we need to compel’—arguments in France about how the strikes can win

They mirror debates in Britain

23 February 2023
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Independent Nation by Will Hayward review: Wales, independence and class inequality

A new book by journalist Will Hayward

21 February 2023
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Marxism 101: What are the roots of women’s oppression?

Sexism in the system

20 February 2023
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Claude McKay—the Making of a Black Bolshevik review: biography of a poet and revolutionary

A review of Winston James' book

13 February 2023
Long Reads

The end of British Empire in the Middle East: The Struggle for Iran by David Painter and Gregory Brew review

The Western coup of 1953

16 January 2023
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A Very British Conspiracy by Eileen Turnbull review—how the British state fitted up the Shrewsbury 24 strikers

The story of the Shrewsbury 24

23 December 2022
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The Future is Degrowth by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan review

Looking at anti-capitalist alternatives

14 December 2022
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Making the Revolution Global—socialism and black liberation in the shadow of 1917

A new book by Theo Williams

07 December 2022
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Helen Macfarlane—hobgoblins, spectres and the fight for working class independence

She translated the Communist Manifesto

05 December 2022
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Marxism 101: What’s the role of the state?

And would we need a workers' state?

01 December 2022
A rally for an RMT union rail strikes
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Marxism 101: What determines your class in the 21st century?

Why the working class is unique

25 November 2022
Karl Liebknecht: jailed in 1916 for saying 'Down with the war!'
Long Reads

Storming onto the stage of history—the forgotten women of the German Revolution

A revolt that helped end war

09 November 2022