The right’s looming challenge to democracy in Greece
By Dionysia Pitsili-Chatzi, Aris Spourdalakis, Jodi Dean Leo Panitch, and Hilary Wainwright,
The rise of the student worker
The student population today is unrecognisable from that of a generation or more ago, writes Matt Myers. And it is central to any socialist project for the future.
Brazil shows us how capitalism stamps out democracy
With the rise of Bolsonaro and big corporations cannibalising the countryside, Brazil is living proof of Thomas Piketty’s assertion that capitalist accumulation in the 21st century is not compatible with democracy. By Sue Branford
Confronting extinction
What next for the Extinction Rebellion movement? Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik writes that we need to shake up the economic and political systems driving the climate crisis.
Brazil’s road to neo-fascism
Pedro Rocha de Oliveira considers the context of Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power in Brazil
Review: Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women
Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women by Silvia Federici, reviewed by Jessica White
From borders to prisons: the politics of abolition
An abolitionist politics seeks to end the violence of the state in systems like prison and immigration detention, and build towards a world without them, write Ru Kaur and Ali Tamlit
The Rojava revolution was made by a struggling people, not American bombs
Matt Broomfield reports from Rojava
Christmas with the gilets jaunes
The 'yellow vests' revolt in France has targeted centrist president Macron, but left wing opinion has been divided over its unclear politics. Paul Cudenec reports from the protests – and finds a community spirit that bears little resemblance to the media's depictions
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Critical tradition: Tribune then and now
As the relaunched Tribune prepares its second issue, Hilary Wainwright assesses the history of the paper and the left Labour MPs who rallied around it – and the lessons it offers today’s Labour left
Welcome to the crowd
Six Silberman writes on the new horizons of digital platform labour
Housing cooperatives are more than an economic no-brainer. They offer our a communities a better future.
They give us the opportunity to put power in the people's hands, writes Joe Barson.
Italy’s far-right crackdown on migrants
The new Italian Immigration Law represents a peak in the government’s hostility against migrants, writes Caterina Mazzilli
