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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Britain is in the midst of its worst housing crisis since the Second World War and, with the temporary ban on evictions almost over, Labour needs to be at the forefront of defending tenants, argues Momentum NCG candidate Laura McAlpine.
The behaviour of police across the United States in the past week has made clear that they are not trying to restore order – instead, they are punishing protestors for questioning their authority.
The balance between work and leisure time has been contested for centuries including, famously, in ‘Saint Monday’ – where workers declared their own day off when a one-day weekend was not enough.
A new report looks at recent campaigns where workers and their unions have won shorter working hours – and asks whether they can offer a progressive solution to impending economic crises.
A new set of translations of the socialist poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht reminds us that the greatest of writers often lived through the darkest of times.
The new Tory government is increasing public spending to shore up its cross-class coalition – how Labour responds to their bigger state will define the next few years.
Recent membership figures contain some positive news for Britain’s trade unions, but they are a long way from reversing decades of decline – there remains a monumental fight ahead to save the movement.
A new set of translations of the socialist poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht reminds us that the greatest of writers often lived through the darkest of times.
A new book uncovers the reality of America’s victory in the Cold War – detailing how massacres of leftists in 22 countries helped to overcome resistance to capitalism across the world, writes Grace Blakeley.
America’s labour movement has a radical history of fighting racism – from segregation to the far-right. In 2020, it can play a crucial role again in the battle against police violence.
In its first decade, Channel 4 took risks and developed programming that gave voice to the marginalised – from Black radicals to Irish republicans, and gay rights campaigners to striking miners.
By raising the spectre of ‘antifa’ and outside agitators, the US President is trying to cast protestors against police violence as alien – and legitimise brutal crackdowns in the process.
From working in the most dangerous jobs to racist immigration policies, structural inequalities have placed Black people at the frontline of Covid-19 – with deadly consequences.
A new study explores how artists and photographers in India responded to the country’s disasters of the last century – and asks what creative responses might be offered to emergencies closer to home.
The authors of a new book on financialisation explore some of the ways coronavirus is impacting the global capitalist system – and suggest ways it could change for better and for worse.
The newspaper columns of Paul B. Preciado combine queer history and a sober account of the last decade of left advance.
Mexico last dealt with a pandemic in 2009, causing a terrible economic crisis, in the aftermath of an election stolen from the centre-left candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. How well prepared is it now that ‘AMLO’ is in power?
The newly published notebooks of the Russian-Belgian revolutionary Victor Serge record the bitter defeats of the twentieth century, but contain within them a boundless curiosity about the world and a stubborn hope for the future.
A new book aims to look beyond ‘Capitalist Realism’ and ‘Exiting the Vampire Castle’ to explore the full range of Mark Fisher’s cultural and political writings.
Labour’s recently departed leadership team of Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott stood firmly for socialism against incredible pressures — and history will vindicate them.