Endless Summer
In her award-winning novel ‘Summer Fun’, Jeanne Thornton writes of pop, politics, and the pleasures and pressures of transgender life.
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Jenna Norman
Jenna Norman is a London-based writer and campaigner.
Multi-Level Marketing Companies Are Cashing In on the Crisis
Behind the rise of ‘cult-like’ multi-level marketing lies the fact that our economic system leaves growing numbers of people isolated, insecure – and keen to believe the promises of businesses that sell themselves as a way out.
The Tory Answer to Everything: Make the Rich Richer
While Kwasi Kwarteng weighs up ditching the bankers’ bonus cap, normal workers are told to show ‘restraint’ and quietly accept a decade of flatlining wages. It’s all designed to keep wealth moving in its current direction: upward.
There’s No Green Future Without Public Ownership
Ruling Labour for a Green New Deal’s conference motion ‘out of order’ stifles debate about public ownership just as public support for it reaches new heights. It needs to be put back on the agenda.
Rail Workers Are Fighting on Both Sides of the Atlantic
In the US, freight railroad workers have been pushed to breaking point while the rail carriers profit more than ever – and while a strike was averted in the early hours of Thursday morning, it isn’t off the table.
When Godard Came to England
Jean-Luc Godard’s shift from narrative cinema to the avant-garde was rooted in an ITV commission to make a film about Britain – beginning the director’s decades of experiments in integrating film and revolutionary politics.
The State Doesn’t Care About Protecting Free Speech
The ruling class loves to cry ‘free speech’ when it serves its culture war. The arrest of republican protestors this week has proved just how superficial that commitment really is.
The Cost of Renting Crisis
While other countries bring in rent freezes and caps to help people face winter, guidance in England just says rent hikes should be ‘fair and realistic’. It might be laughable if it wasn’t pushing hundreds of thousands into debt and poverty.
Pay Down, and Everything Else Up? Join a Union
While the Treasury talks about scrapping caps on bankers’ bonuses, real wages in the UK fell 2.9% last year. The only way to change it: build trade union power so workers can bargain for better.
94. Seizing the State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore
This week, Grace speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist and scholar. They discuss who is profiting from the criminal justice system, how existing institutions within the system serve to support and reinforce capitalist social relations, and what a socialist conception of justice looks like.
‘I’ve Got Nothing Left’: The Cancer Survivor Striking Against Royal Mail
Emma, a 45-year-old postal worker, survived cancer only to find her life plagued by low wages and overwork. Now, she’s on the picket line taking on Royal Mail – and demanding respect for the workers they once clapped.
Royal Pageantry Can’t Disguise that Britain Is Broken
The ten days of national mourning over Queen Elizabeth II has temporarily taken over the national conversation – but it can’t cover up the scandal of Britain’s growing poverty for long.
The Energy Crisis Is Forcing Families into Record Debt
Even before the April price hike, British families were £2.1 billion in energy debt. Capping prices at today’s levels won’t do – we need a real reduction and public ownership.
A Reliquary of Modern Wales
Richard King’s oral history of post-war, pre-devolution Wales centres on the tensions between socialism and nationalism, and how each responded to the destruction of Wales’ industrial modernity.
Justice for Chris Kaba
Since 1990, there have been over 1,800 deaths in police custody or following police contact and almost zero accountability. Chris Kaba is another victim of a brutal, uncontrollable Met, and his family deserves the truth.
The Fight for a New Chile Goes On
The defeat of Chile’s draft constitution is a blow, but support for replacing the Pinochet-era document remains strong – and the necessity of burying neoliberalism’s legacy is as vital as ever.
How Scotland’s Rent Freeze Was Won
Scotland’s rent freeze is a huge win for tenants’ union Living Rent. Now we need a freeze across the UK, and proper rent controls to stop landlords taking the piss for good.
An Alternative Atlas
In their anthology Queer Spaces, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell map the diversity and solidarity of LGBTQIA+ communities through buildings from Havana to London to Beirut.
To Cut the Giant Bills, Tax the Giant Profits
Energy giants are expected to make £170 billion in excess profit in the next two years. By ruling out a higher windfall tax, Liz Truss is defining her premiership from the offset: more for the rich at the expense of everyone else.
London’s Hunger Is An Avoidable Crisis
There is no reason anyone in London, one of the world’s wealthiest cities, should be going hungry. It’s time to build a system that acknowledges that fact – and ends food insecurity for good.