
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

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





