Summer 2026 has seen heatwaves, wildfires and unbearable temperatures across much of the world leading more people to understand that serious and rapid action on climate change is urgently needed. Improved public transport is an important dimension of this argue Terry Conway and Liz Lawrence.
Few people reading this will have watched `Police Interceptors` or `Traffic Cops` on Channel 5. This weekend seven people died on the A66 after a chase. Bert Radcliffe reflects on the tragedy and these TV programmes.
Pete Firmin explores the ongoing significance of a dispute that began fifty years ago this week.
As Ukraine enters its fifth winter of all-out war by Russia, Duncan Chapel looks again at claims, misconceptions and “fake-news” that still circulate on the left. These are still used to remain silent or even oppose solidarity with Ukrainians who are fighting for national sovereignty against occupation and annexation by Russian imperialism.
We seek revolutionary transformation to meet the compound crisis of ecological disaster, economic collapse, social decay, grotesque inequality, mass impoverishment, growing militarisation, and creeping authoritarianism.
Richard Hatcher examines the Burnham government's plans for new forms of public participation
Piyamit Leelatham argues against Varoufakis's thesis that under our society of techofeudalism Marx's law of value no longer applies.