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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
During the 1950s, Britain’s brutal suppression of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya led to thousands of deaths – but Barbara Castle’s campaign to expose its crimes showed that the Empire’s violence did not have to go unchallenged.
In the 1970s, police hunting the Yorkshire Ripper told women to stay home at night to avoid attack. The response was the Reclaim the Night movement – and its lessons remain relevant almost half a century later.
Covid-19 has seen plenty of empty rhetoric about ‘key workers,’ but unless the public sector is judged by its contribution to care and community little will change – and that means an end to the market ethos.
Bridgwater is a red island in a sea of blue; a rare exception to the Tory politics which dominate Somerset – and its pioneering 1940s Arts Centre offers an insight into the role of socialism in its past and present.
In the mid 20th century, Algeria’s bid for independence from France sent reverberations around the emergent Third World – but today, its role in the formation of the post-colonial system is often forgotten.
This weekend’s protests against the Police Crackdown Bill were in defence of democratic rights which were hard won – and which will be eroded unless we are prepared to fight for them.
Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah sought to build an Africa free from capitalism and imperialism. Although defeated, his legacy remains a source of inspiration for a new generation of leftists.
The growing appeal of dystopias, end-of-the-world scenarios and depopulated landscapes is often attributed to cultural decline – but it also speaks to a mourning for better worlds we failed to build.
One year ago, Keir Starmer was elected leader on a promise to make Labour a ‘real opposition’ again – instead, he has consistently failed to push back against the most right-wing government in living memory.
Walter Benjamin’s ‘Arcades Project’ provides a counter-history of Paris in the 19th century – and offers a vivid portrait of the revolutionary chaos and bloody demise of the Paris Commune.
Private renting and precarious employment have left under-35s facing the worst of the economic fallout from Covid-19 – and the result is likely to be an even deeper generational divide.
The failures of Ireland’s two-tier healthcare system have been exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic – now, momentum is building for a real alternative: a public and universal national health service.
As of today, the United States has distributed 15 times more vaccines than the entire continent of Africa – hoarding by the Developed World threatens the global Covid response and will deepen inequality for years to come.
The Police Crackdown Bill is a threat to our right to protest, but that right has been contested for centuries – and from Peterloo to Cable Street, it has often been defended by breaking the law.
During the pandemic, library workers have been deemed ‘essential’ and many forced to continue work – but government cuts have led to 1,000 closures in a decade, the real measure of how these services are valued.
The Tories will try to turn this year’s COP26 into a PR exercise, talking up their meagre green credentials – it’s our job to ensure it delivers a path to bold action and climate justice.
The government-backed Sewell Report has declared Britain free from institutional racism. Its findings are laughable, but it was never intended as a rigorous study – it is just the latest weapon in the Tory culture war.
The moves to realign Labour’s foreign policy after Corbyn reveal exactly what the political centre means by ‘internationalism’ – liberal values advanced at the point of a cruise missile.
Pioneering Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi passed away this month. Her work challenged Western assumptions about Arab women – and emphasised the vital link between socialism and women’s liberation.
Since its construction just over 150 years ago, the Suez Canal has been at the heart of the global capitalist system – and has played a key role in the Arab world’s struggle against its old colonial masters.