John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace – reshaping US politics and inspiring movements worldwide
Community wealth-building must be central to our strategy
Unions must now combine the fightback against cuts with implementing a new, democratic economy directly – and, from Ayrshire and Preston, we already have the model, writes LAURA SMITH
The council has lent £150,000 to attempt to purchase Preston’s iconic venue the Ferret and place it into community ownership
In the fifth and final part of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG explains how the Communist Party of China’s approach demonstrates how Marxism, rooted in concrete conditions and mass participation, can shape history
In times of genocide, art is not a refuge from politics but a weapon against injustice, says ROGER McKENZIE, highlighting three of his own favourite political truth-tellers
As members elect their first leadership, a deeper battle is unfolding over what democracy should mean in practice, says CASSI BELLINGHAM
The language of humiliation is a step towards a second civil war, argues RAMZY BAROUD
ANDREW MURRAY says switching the prime minister on and off again is no substitute for new political approach we need
THERE is a fundamental failure, within the narrow parameters across the dominant political classes, to recognise that we live in very different economic times from when the last Labour government was in power.
Tragically, within that context, there is an abject political failure to develop the radical solutions required to tackle the intractable problems currently engulfing our people and our environment.
Rehashing the past simply will not cut through. Papering over the cracks has happened before. It does not cut it and the gaping wounds from previous half-baked solutions are today plain to see.
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