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  • Cymunedoli: The glue that binds

    Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood

  • A group photo of celebrating Reform UK councillors and activists in Durham, with party leader Nigel Farage in the centre

    Rising to Reform’s stranglehold in County Durham

    Reform is a byproduct of Thatcherism, Labour Party failures and left activists’ limited imaginations, argues Ben Sellers. Only a long-term strategy for deep community organising can reverse the right-wing course that appears to lie ahead

  • Investigative journalism: A light in the darkness

    The most important function of investigative journalism is to hold power to account, writes Katie Mark

  • Green Party members in a show of hands

    How to build a new left-party alliance

    A left-led Green party and the new ‘Your Party’ are both vital to defeating the right – but we need cross-party collaboration and grassroots organising to forge real change, argues Labour-turned-Green councillor Liam Shrivastava

  • Democratic Primary nominee Zohran Mamdani speaking at a Resist fascism rally, with a crowd of people holding signs behind him

    Lessons from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign

    Mamdani’s impressive Democratic primary victory is a source of hope for transformative politics in NYC and the wider US, writes Dillon Delaune – one of 50,000 supporters who canvassed for his campaign

  • No short cuts: Does the British left really need a new party?

    We need to build an independent politics from below, argues Hilary Wainwright – and look to longer-term organising, not quick answers

  • Illustrations of broken chains in the background of a photo of two protestors holding up placards at a BLM rally

    The only way left is always anti-racist

    Any new socialist organisation must put proletarian anti-racism at its heart and embrace utopian pragmatism, write Joshua Virasami and Jonas Marvin

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