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Tom Williams is a writer and activist, and a tutor in trade union studies.
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?
Bruce Springsteen and his politics are flawed, to be sure – but nearly fifty years after his first album, there are few other voices who can so unite the left.
As poverty rises in the wake of Covid, the Southampton Social Aid Group is organising in communities, not to offer charity but to build solidarity – renewing the bonds decayed by decades of neoliberalism.
A failed campaign to save Solent Flour Mills, a monumental building in the port of Southampton, raises questions about how councils and campaigners can fight multinational capitalism in local spaces.
As Jeremy Corbyn bows out with his last Prime Minister’s Questions, we remember what his leadership of the Labour Party made possible.
In 2017, Labour lost out in Southampton Itchen by just 31 votes. Now the party is determined to win back a working-class constituency that exemplifies the challenges facing the postindustrial south.