Alfie Hancox 02/03/2023 Alfie Hancox 02/03/2023

Red Fightback’s Final Crisis

Red Fightback was a communist and anti-imperialist organisation that aimed to take oppression seriously, adopting an intersectional approach that sought to address patriarchy, racism, and ableism, in contrast to much of the left in Britain. But the project has come to a sudden end, leaving both its membership and onlookers confused about contradictions within the party and its seeming failure to combat oppression within its ranks.

Azfar Shafi and Tariq Mehmood 16/06/2022 Azfar Shafi and Tariq Mehmood 16/06/2022

Forty years on from the Bradford 12

In this wide-ranging interview with Ebb Magazine to mark 40 years since the acquittal of the Bradford 12, Tariq Mehmood, co-founder of the United Black Youth League, discusses how Black Power in Britain presented an insurgent challenge both to state racism, and to the failings of the organised left on questions of race, immigration and imperialism.

Alfie Hancox 05/05/2022 Alfie Hancox 05/05/2022

Starmer and Siege Social Democracy

Keir Starmer’s response to the cost-of-living crisis by doubling down on Labour’s appeals to 'law and order', attempting to outflank the Conservative Party from the right, demonstrates the relevance of Stuart Hall’s underutilised concept of social democracy 'adapted for siege conditions'.

Alfie Hancox 12/11/2020 Alfie Hancox 12/11/2020

British communism’s patriotic disease

Left-wing patriotism in Britain carries the shameful legacy of the Second International’s self-destruction, and even a progressive patriotism presents a paternalistic narrative in which workers of colour are the ‘good immigrants’ who helped rebuild the nation rather than resisted colonialism.

Louis Allday 04/06/2020 Louis Allday 04/06/2020

This is not an aberration; violence is central to the history, and present, of the United States

Contrary to the racist notion that it should not lower itself to the standards of its enemies, it must be stated plainly that the US is in fact the global expert on assassinations, crushing internal dissent, and mass violence.

Alfie Hancox 19/12/2019 Alfie Hancox 19/12/2019

Social democracy and its discontents: Race and class in the fallout of the UK general election

An insidious narrative surrounding the election result is that Corbyn and the Labour left erred by subordinating ‘authentic’ class issues to identity politics and diversity. One thing is certain: socialists must confront racism head on, and foster working-class unity in all its diversity.

Andrea Pitzer 29/04/2019 Andrea Pitzer 29/04/2019

Why the US tent cities are concentration camps for children

For centuries, children have been used as pawns by governments seeking to control their parents or their leaders. And children have been forcibly relocated in the United States before. Under slavery they were separated from their parents to extort labor and build wealth, while Native American children were taken from their families for re-schooling and to foster the expropriation of land.