Essays & Interviews
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.
‘Imperialism runs deep’: Interview with Robert Biel on British Maoism and its afterlives
In this interview, Robert Biel recounts his experiences of the British Maoist movement in the 1980s, the positive lessons that can be drawn from it, and the need for Marxists to transcend Eurocentrism and connect with diverse struggles against oppression.
A People’s Green New Deal: An interview with Max Ajl
In this interview, Max Ajl offers his perspective on the issues of ecologically unequal exchange, the Palestinian national liberation struggle, China’s model of agrarian revolution, Andreas Malm’s ‘ecological Leninism’, and the prospects for North-South convergence around environmental justice.