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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Rejecting calls to tack right on immigration, Die Linke made impressive gains in last month’s German elections by cultivating a new form of radical politics that pushes working-class communities – and an ethic of ‘revolutionary kindness’ – to the fore.
Running a government where starving children and freezing pensioners is the price to pay for funding endless wars, Keir Starmer’s only legacy will be a more dangerous and unequal world.
With influences as wide as Freud and The Jam, Cynthia Cruz’s ideas analyse neoliberalism’s disappearing of the working class in everyday politics and cultural life — and how, in recognising that, class politics can be rebuilt.
More than simply keeping picket lines going, providing food to workers in dispute is a form of collectivism that has shaped the trade union movement.
Low pay and poor conditions in the British food industry leave thousands of those who feed us too poor to feed themselves — but some are pushing back and organising for better.
A new Tate Britain exhibition purports to display the photography of the 1980s. In its rooms, that decade has never felt longer.
The Irish revolutionary and singer Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, who has died aged 74, was trusted by Bobby Sands, feared by Margaret Thatcher, and admired by thousands who became politicised through his songs and powerful performances.
Johan Grimonprez speaks about his innovative, Oscar-nominated documentary, which reveals disturbing truths about the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
As well as a best-ever result for the far-right AfD, yesterday’s German election saw a surge of support for the left-wing Die Linke after years in crisis. In the run-up, longtime leader Gregor Gysi shared his thoughts on how to carry that surge forward.
In 1795, English women facing starvation organised to seize food supplies and distribute them for an honest price — making the case for a system that placed community need above individual profit.
From popularising people’s history to crusading for ordinary people’s access to good food and wine, Raymond Postgate’s socialism was about the full enrichment of life for all.
The authoritarian socialist regimes of the twentieth century tried to rescue people from ‘kitchen slavery’ through communal eateries. In Poland, they survive and thrive.
In the coming years, climate breakdown will ravage the global food systems on which we depend, ushering in a new era of political instability.
After a plant in Israel was closed for allowing grave levels of pollution, it was moved to the occupied West Bank — where it ruins the land, spoils crops, and poisons Palestinian workers today.
Last year, India’s powerful farmer movement thwarted Narendra Modi’s plans to win an electoral supermajority. A communist leader of their movement explains how they’re turning the tide on the reactionary BJP.
Ejected and dejected, Britain’s fragmented left is exploring the possibility of a new political party. The odds are against a socialist alternative to Labour — but Keir Starmer’s leadership may be shifting them.
After decades of consolidation, just four firms now control at least 97% of a frozen potato market worth over $68 billion — and a new spate of legal cases are accusing them of price-fixing.
Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’, the director’s first contemporary work since 2010, captures the fear, isolation and anxiety bubbling beneath the surface of modern Britain.
The formation of the Hague Group ensures that the world won’t forget Israel’s crimes in Gaza — nor can Israeli war criminals evading justice, writes Ronnie Kasrils.
Labour’s plan for growth — with deregulation and corporate-driven projects at its core — runs the risk of deepening inequality and handing over national infrastructure to private profit.