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 ...

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 ...

The left in the UK has a fatal attraction to shortcuts. In 1906 the left-wing Independent Labour Party (ILP) joined the Labour Representation Committee, the trade union dominated committee that ...

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 the ever-shifting landscape and viability of print media, left-wing publications can take many forms and directions. Paula Lacey spotlights a selection of trajectories taken in the UK and beyond ...

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 ...

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 ...

The East Marsh, once a bustling hub of Grimsby’s fishing industry, had fallen into a state of decline. The departure of the trawling fleet left behind a community ravaged by deprivation and plagued by ...

Despite facing state repression, rave culture continues to be a space for political expression and collective action, writes Alex Carter ...