Political ideologies

Inclusive, accessible debate covering everything from political history primers to left party analysis to keeping tabs on the evolving far-right

Inclusive, accessible debate covering everything from political history primers to left party analysis to keeping tabs on the evolving far-right

  • Illustrations showing two people feeding babies, one within a heart shape with the word 'Chestfed' above, the other sitting atop a ribbon in blue, pink and white that reads 'Trans Joy'

    Labour pains: Views on birthing, pregnancy and birth control

    AJ Silver, Moly O’Brien and Devon Price challenge how UK medical institutions exert control over their bodies

  • A young smiling child pours water from a watering can over a bed of sprouting plants as a smiling older person looks on at the Golden Hill Community Garden

    The future is now: rethinking public ownership

    Hilary Wainwright introduces ‘prefigurative politics’ and Ursula Huws explains how community ownership can encourage a fruitful rethink of public ownership amid a cost-of-living crisis

  • A black and white photograph of a cricket team from 1985

    Different Class – review

    Duncan Stone’s fastidiously researched history of English cricket offers a valuable alternative view of the sport, writes Sanaa Qureshi

  • An illustration shows a figure with long straight hair standing in the small opening between two sides of a gate. The figure is laughing, head thrown back

    Resisting racial gatekeeping

    British Indians in government are fuelling the so-called culture wars. Bal Sokhi-Bulley dismantles their harmful rhetoric and outlines an alternative politics of solidarity and friendship

  • On a white background, three illustrated posters show male oil workers resisting colonial power (as US and British flags) and state repression

    A new revolutionary web: oil workers and resistance in Iran

    Oil worker strikes in Iran are different this time. The latest spate of industrial action is rallying support for Iranian women, writes A.N.

  • A black and white photo shows two men sitting crossed legged on the floor, a protest banner in the background. The man on the left is David Graeber, holding a microphone and gesturing to unseen listeners

    Learning from David Graeber

    Activists, academics and friends explain what David Graeber’s work meant to them – and the salient message it still carries today

  • Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a white man wearing a suit with his hands clasped, speaks into a microphone against a backdrop of more white men in suits listening from their seats in the European Parliament

    Bad news from Greece: round one

    Former Syriza member Marina Prentoulis examines the results of the first round of the Greek elections and explains the party’s continued decline