Mamdani’s impressive victory in last month’s primaries contains sources of hope for transformative politics in the US, writes ...

Thirty years after its heyday, Esther Freeman traces the history of Reclaim the Streets, the movement’s energy – and its ...

The people in Gaza have come to understand political language – not out of education, but because of the immense pain. Each ...

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, ...

By flattening global queer expression into one Western script, queer people in the global north close their minds to older, more fluid and more inclusive ways of thinking about gender and sexuality.

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 ...

Jonathan Rosenblum shows how Amazon workers can learn from previous actions to organise themselves on a global scale ...

In Britain, we face the twin dangers of Labour authoritarianism and the ascendant energies of the Faragist far right. Each is animated by a national and racial hostility, roused by revanchism and ...

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 ...