Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed millions of lives, plunged the world economy into a deep crisis, and laid bare the contradictions and injustices that have resulted from a decade of austerity, privatisation and financialisation. Events of such epochal significance often invite comparisons with the past, and…

On December 14th, 2020, the Labour leader Keir Starmer appeared on radio show LBC with host Nick Ferrari when a caller, introducing herself as ‘Gemma from Cambridge,’ took the opportunity to propagate the Neo — Nazi ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory on a national media platform. …

This article has also been published here The term ‘ecofascism’ is a notable addition to the lexicon of climate change sceptics and anti-environmentalists. It is an attempt to discredit those who observe that limitless compound growth on a planet with finite resources can only end in ecological catastrophe, and to…

This article has also been published here. The months following the killing of George Floyd saw sales of books about race increase by up to 6,800%. The top seller was Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, which increased sales by over 400,000 copies from May to June this year, a startling increase…

This article has also been published here. On October 1, 1949, 200,000 people gathered in Tiananmen Square as Mao Zedong proclaimed victory in the People’s War of Liberation. The nationalistic Kuomintang government had been banished to Taiwan, the ‘Century of Humiliation’ was at its end, and the People’s Republic of…

The protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, a 46 year old unarmed black man, by Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin have spread throughout and beyond the United States, as demonstrators have taken to the streets to demand justice. …

The background to the French Revolution chronicles the decline of a once-powerful State, beset by a multitude of economic and social problems. Chief among these issues were: a bourgeoning national debt brought on by the cost of war, the increasing antagonisms between an unproductive class of nepotistic Oligarchs and an…

The similarities between 18th Century France and Modern America apply not only to the background to the French revolution, but to the early stages of the Revolution in which a moderate, professional bourgeoisie sought to consolidate their power and stem the tide of economic and political radicalism emanating from the…

This article has also been published here “If land enclosure helped produce the spatial conditions for the exploitation of wage labor, digital enclosures enable the exploitation of information generated by users as they go about their daily lives” — Mark Andrejevic The squalid conditions of the Xinjiang region of Northwestern…