Zionism is often described simply as the expression of the Jewish right to self-determination. Nothing could be more misleading. Late-nineteenth-century Zionists, echoing the beliefs of other national ...

Some of us read histories of the left for nostalgic reasons. Some of us do so to learn, or to measure the distance travelled, or find fresh inspiration. A few look for nails to drive into coffins, ...

Magazine publishers have long been contending with the slow decline of print media. Digital technology has made content freely available online and on social media platforms, while newsstand sales ...

For most of us here in England, the news barely registered. A train was hijacked in a far-off province of Pakistan. 400 plus hostages were taken, some of whom were killed, though the number of ...

Many left internationalists from colonised geographies past and present – the children of empire, transatlantic slavery and oppression – and the comrades allied to us have historically felt the limits ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

Coined by Jacques Derrida in 1993 to oppose Western liberalism’s declaration of the ‘end of history’ after the collapse of the Soviet Union, hauntology later became a quasi-genre of music and ...

The first volume of Tariq Ali’s autobiography, Street Fighting Years (1987), focused on his youth. This latest volume follows on from 1979, taking the reader into his eighties, and includes a ...

There is clearly a groundswell of anti-establishment feeling and the electorate are seeing through Labour’s rhetoric of change and the Greens need to be an outlet to that sentiment. We are for Green ...

In Carmen Maria Machado’s 2021 prize-winning memoir In The Dream House, the author writes that, ‘What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the ...

Five hundred years ago, one of the greatest social movements in European history swept the Holy Roman Empire in what is now Germany. In thousands of villages, people’s private mumblings at heavy ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...