Seventy years ago, the Congress of the People was broken up by apartheid police while discussing the Freedom Charter, a vision for a just society. The document remains a guide for building a free South Africa today, writes Mervyn Bennun, one of the meeting’s participants.
From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.
For many people who risked their lives to defeat Nazism, aiding the post-war movements against a dying but vicious colonialism was the next step in the fight to realise their anti-fascist ideals.
Visionary Japanese sci-fi author Izumi Suzuki anticipated our present malaise decades ago, in writing that combines melancholy for the failure of sixties radicalism with scepticism about a world of ubiquitous screens.
The new poetry collection by London writer Caleb Femi is a modern epic based on the institution of the ‘shoobs’ (or house party) and its under-explored experimental potential.
The elusive French composer is the subject of a freewheeling new Ian Penman book and an intense, eighteen-hour performance directed by Marina Abramovic. How seriously should we take their versions of the Satie myth?
A new book about Trump’s 2024 election victory is a profoundly unsettling account of the Democratic Party machinery’s refusal to respect their own voters or offer any answers to America’s problems beyond maintaining the status quo.
A new anthology of Tony Benn’s writings and speeches highlights the radical democratic instincts and internationalist vision that have helped define British socialism this century.
In delivering his toxic ‘Island of Strangers’ speech on immigration earlier this week, Keir Starmer aligned with a bizarre conservative tendency inspired in equal measure by Enoch Powell and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Since its publication last year, Nick Bano’s book 'Against Landlords' has generated much debate about the housing crisis — and laid the ground for a new trend in left publishing.
As a High Court case seeking to block sale of British munitions used by Israel in Gaza begins, one of the campaigners involved — former UN Assistant Secretary-General Andrew Gilmour — argues that Britain’s role in the process must end immediately.
Louis Theroux’s recent documentary about settler violence in the West Bank drew attention to the plight of the region — but in the Hebron Hills, where Palestinians and Jewish activists face settler devastation, the reality is even more shocking.