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The People of Turkey Against the ‘Palace Regime’
As Turkey’s far-right government attempts to stifle democratic opposition yet again, massive protests have erupted across the country – showing that a new generation will not accept Erdoğan’s authoritarian rule.
Cut Up: The Radical Collage of Linder Sterling
A new exhibition places Manchester artist Linder Sterling not just in the post-punk scene of her home city but in a wider history of female Surrealist art.
Don’t Buy Apartheid
A new national campaign is channelling the anger felt by millions towards Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza into a mass boycott of Israeli goods — and companies like Coca-Cola that prop up apartheid.
Palestine vs. FIFA
Palestinian football has been at a standstill since October 2023, and now campaigners are demanding that FIFA sanctions Israel's FA. Does the organisation’s failure to do so make a mockery of its own statutes?
Imagining the Progressive Restaurant
In a country where so many people live increasingly lonely, bland, and digitised lives, food institutions can — and should — be bodies that place communal enjoyment before the whims of consumerism.
Splitting Games
Ash Sarkar’s debut book Minority Rule ventures into the badlands of the contemporary culture wars to show how identity politics has come to obscure class struggle — and helped to dismantle left unity.
Democratised Finance Is the Future
Financial institutions wield huge control over our day-to-day lives. We need to democratise that power.
Reds Deserve Better
The proposed demolition of Old Trafford to build a corporate theme park that could have been designed by Homer Simpson is another sad example of billionaires kidnapping football — and destroying something special about Manchester — in the name of profit.
Labour Must Pull in the Workers’ Direction
The Employment Rights Bill could see the biggest expansion of workers’ rights in a generation and improve millions of workers’ lives — the government can’t afford to bow to corporate lobbyists seeking to dilute it.
End the Privatised Water Scam
Thames Water, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, is the poster child for failed privatisation. Labour's refusal to even consider public ownership for this vital utility puts ideology above reason.