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  • A black and white photo shows a large crowd of sweating revellers with a stage and DJ booth in the distance

    High art, low ceilings: remaking Social Club culture

    Jerry Iles speaks to Geoff Kirkwood about how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon – driven by cutting edge DJs, bingo nights, experimental orchestras and ‘open-minded collectivism’. Now, it’s reclaiming culture for everyone

  • A row of tractors, some sporting Union Jack flags, photographed from the pavement in Whitehall

    Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good

    The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

  • 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 photograph of an abandoned car with the words 'rust in piece' painted on its side. Two mannequin torsos are resting on the car's bonnet

    1995: The year we nearly changed the world

    Inspired by the collapse of the Berlin wall and end of South African apartheid, a generation of radicals danced onto British roads and into social justice history. Thirty years on, Esther Freeman traces the movement’s energy – and its legacy

  • A fighter in the YPJ (Yekîneyên Parastina Jin – Women’s Protection Units)

    Rojava in the crosshairs

    The Kurdish-led revolution in north and east Syria provides a beacon of hope after the overthrow of Assad, write Rok Brossa and Eleanor Finley, but it is one that must be fought for

  • Key words: The Pluriverse

    Pluriversal politics offer an eclectic, egalitarian and emancipatory alternative to capitalist modernity, writes Levi Gahman

  • Three people standing next to a table decked in a cover reading Cooperation Hull and standing next to a sign reading 'what could we change'

    Experimenting with economic democracy

    Climate activists new to Hull are working to build a co-operative economy in some of the most disenfranchised neighbourhoods in the country. Gully Bujak of Cooperation Hull explains the challenge