Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell’s book demonstrates how much Big Flame has to teach the modern left, writes Kevin Davey
David Matthews examines how the welfare state is used against the working class – and how we can imagine a more liberatory welfare system
Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia
From the corrupt to the inspired, Owen Hatherley charts the architecture that followed the fall of the Soviet Union
We need to build an independent politics from below, argues Hilary Wainwright – and look to longer-term organising, not quick answers
The Corbyn era inspired a new wave of socialist publications, including New Socialist. Here, its editors Tom Gann and Josie Sparrow reflect on the challenges, ambitions and necessities facing left media today
Any national independent political organisation must be built up from interconnecting community power in localities, Jamie Driscoll (Tyneside) and Andrew Feinstein (Camden, London) tell Red Pepper