Acid Japonisme
Visionary Japanese sci-fi author Izumi Suzuki anticipated our present malaise decades ago, in writing that combines melancholy for the failure of sixties radicalism with scepticism about a world of ubiquitous screens.
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Fianna Coleman
Fianna Coleman is a writer and researcher living in Cardiff.
DMG 2025: Communism in the Coalfields
As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the event’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.
DMG 2025: A New Career in a New Town
It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee — a ‘left behind’ former mining town in County Durham — utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.
DMG 2025: Birthplace of the Working Class
In the first of a series of pieces leading up to Saturday’s Durham Miners’ Gala, we examine a forgotten corner of County Durham with a strong claim to be the one of the global birthplaces of the industrial proletariat.
McSweeney’s Death Rattle
In a media landscape where nuanced political breakthroughs are often credited to ‘genius Svengalis’, spin doctor Morgan McSweeney has become the crown prince of Starmerism. But now his fragile empire is crumbling.
We Never Walk Alone: Jota’s Empowering Joy
In a sport dominated by capitalist exploitation, Portugal and Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota – who died in a tragic accident this week – offered a purer form of joy that empowered people to feel hope in the face of adversity.
Palestine Action’s ‘Form of Love’
As the Labour government criminalises Palestine Action under anti-terror laws, impromptu screenings of a new documentary about the group’s relentless campaign against the arms industry have spotlighted widespread public support for their cause.
We Must Defend the Hillsborough Law
The last Labour manifesto pledged to pass the Hillsborough Law, ensuring justice for the Liverpool fans who died in the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy, but now the government is considering a watered down replacement. We can’t let that happen.
Rescuing the BBC From Itself
In recent years the BBC has come to nurture right-wing populism and sideline the Left. But with just a little imagination and effort it could easily reclaim its radical democratic roots.
Saving Palestine, Saving Britain
Far from being a threat to the British people, activists fighting for the Palestinian cause are in fact reflective of public opinion and helping to close the gap between international law and Britain’s support for Israeli oppression.
How to Make Farage Look Marxist
Reform MP Rupert Lowe has criticised the ‘incitement to violence’ at Glastonbury days after suggesting that Palestine Action activists should ‘expect to be shot’. Is this Musk-endorsed maverick the future of Reform — or a new hard-right Tory party?
The Real Foreign Takeover of the NHS
The government’s willingness to demonise migrant workers is a sign of its increasing moral degradation. Meanwhile, like their New Labour role models, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting are supremely relaxed about multinational involvement in the NHS.
Labour Loves the Super-Rich
As the government slashes social security provision for the vulnerable, Rachel Reeves wants to relax her clampdown on ‘non-dom’ loopholes for the ultra-wealthy. Nothing better illustrates how Labour has abandoned ordinary people to become ‘capital’s B-team’.
The Socialist Candidate for New York
In the election to be New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani is waging war on the city’s establishment and capturing the public’s imagination in the process. Will it be enough to succeed?
Jeremy Corbyn: MPs Exist Because of Protest
As the government designates Palestine Action a ‘terrorist’ group, Jeremy Corbyn argues that MPs wouldn’t be here without the right to protest – and that this authoritarian crackdown must end now.
Black Britain Beyond the Capital
British publishing has been slow to document black British stories outside of the capital. A new book, taking a road trip around the UK during the Thatcher years, sets the record straight.
An Attack on Palestine Action Is an Attack on You
The government’s move to ban Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act is due to their effectiveness in disrupting genocide — and erodes the basis for dissent that all democratic societies need.
Gaza Is Still Burning
While news headlines are increasingly dominated by the nuclear face-off between Israel, Iran, and the US, life remains hellish for displaced families clinging on to the edge of the Gaza City shoreline. Who will speak for them?
Whatever Happened to the Postindustrial City?
After fifty years of neoliberalism, smaller British cities have some of the worst life prospects in Western Europe. Does a case study of one of them offer any clues about how to challenge uneven development and reverse postindustrial decline?
Apartheid’s War on the NHS
In the past few years, British health workers have faced smears, targeted media attacks, and workplace persecution — all for the simple act of expressing support for Palestine.