Solidarity With Amrit Wilson
In a sign of Modi’s growing authoritarianism, the veteran journalist Amrit Wilson has been banned from India and labelled a threat to the state. Her crime? Writing in support of India’s farmers’ protests for Tribune.
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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
In a sign of Modi’s growing authoritarianism, the veteran journalist Amrit Wilson has been banned from India and labelled a threat to the state. Her crime? Writing in support of India’s farmers’ protests for Tribune.
On the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, we republish writer and activist Antonio de Figueiredo, who argued upon his return from exile that the liberation of Portugal’s African colonies was the country’s own path to freedom.
The relentless, punitive legal attacks against Palestine Action activists for disrupting Israel’s war machine is a simple lesson about our country today — maintaining injustice abroad requires crushing dissent at home.
Rishi Sunak’s rhetoric around ‘sick note culture’ is a transparent attempt to blame workers for government policies that have pushed millions of us into poverty and ill health.
On St. George’s Day we remember the Diggers — the true radicals of the English Revolution.
When centrists claim to be guided by common sense over populism of ideology, they ignore that their loyalty to a bankrupt status quo is a fanaticism of its own.
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A ban on Muslim students expressing their faith at a London school has nothing to do with secularism’s triumph and everything to do with right-wingers shaping the education agenda.
Blending philosophy with popular culture, with references to Fight Club, Breaking Bad and more, a new book examines why people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation.
In the 1970s, British South Asians faced a vicious tidal wave of racism from street gangs and the state. A new series details how they fought back — for themselves and those that came after them.
In a society where a third of workers think their job is meaningless, an alternative to constant toiling in unproductive work is urgently needed: it’s time to demand a four-day week.
Liverpool’s celebrated local museums pay so poorly that its workers go home to cold homes and empty cupboards. It’s no wonder they have gone on strike to demand the better wages they deserve.
A new play at the National Theatre explores Nye Bevan’s hard-fought struggle against healthcare profiteers to create the NHS — a fight we must rediscover to save the service from today’s privatisation-loving politicians.
A new exhibition examines working-class photography in the UK in the years since 1989 — and demonstrates art’s potential to expose political failure and social division.
The allegations that Labour has used its online voting system to rig parliamentary selections suggest that Starmer’s addiction to purging the left is corroding the integrity of Britain’s democratic system.
Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics.
After artists collectively removed their work from a Manchester arts centre in protest at its censorship of a Palestinian literature celebration, bosses were forced to reinstate the event — in a stunning victory for those opposing genocide in Gaza.
Labour has ditched its ambitious green policies in favour of market-based solutions — but relying on private companies to solve the climate crisis is like asking an arsonist to put out the fire they started.
The election of Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah to the rectorship of Glasgow University has been a victory for Palestinian solidarity — and a stunning rebuke of the university’s collaboration with the arms trade.
During the English Civil War, a band of radicals set out to make the world a common treasury. But the Diggers weren’t just pioneering socialists — they were forerunners of the environmental movement too.