Alternative economies

  • A photo showing bitcoing mining, showing a large, dark room full of computers displaying green lights

    Should the left care about blockchain technology?

    Despite its utopian promises of digital democracy, Thomas Redshaw argues socialists should be wary of embracing blockchain technology

  • A row of protestors at a demonstration in solidarity with Rojava, waving Kurdish flags and holding banners expressing support

    Now is the time to rise up for Rojava

    Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been betrayed by the US, giving the Turkish state a green light to carry out atrocities in Northern Syria, writes Amber Huff and Patrick Huff

  • Extinction rebellion

    An open letter to Extinction Rebellion

    ‘The fight for climate justice is the fight of our lives, and we need to do it right.’ By grassroots collective Wretched of The Earth

  • Four women Peoples' Defense Unit (YPG) fighters photographed together smiling

    The Rojava revolution was made by a struggling people, not American bombs

    Matt Broomfield reports from Rojava

  • A black and white illustration of Tom Palmer aka 'Agent Kingfisher

    Who killed Agent Kingfisher?

    Tom Palmer, aka Agent Kingfisher, was the ‘messiah’ of London’s squatting scene until his death last year. But who was responsible for his fate? MI5, late capitalism or simply a drug overdose? Matt Broomfield investigates.

  • Chilean president Salvador Allende at the United Nations in New York

    Cybersyn and Allende’s socialist internet

    Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup

  • A large crowd of protestors facing the Greek parliament building in Athens

    The local: for and against

    Greg Sharzer argues that movements have to confront the capitalist crisis, not carve spaces away from it. Below, Hilary Wainwright writes that we must avoid the false dichotomy between organising locally and on a broader stage