MARIA GOULDING reviews Samantha Harvey’s prize winning Orbital, a novel that casts a distant eye on humanity’s smash and grab impact on planet Earth, a book of rare lyrical beauty and profound sadness that may just be what we need in these turbulent times.
‘They come to see the politics of want. The politics of growing and getting, a billion extrapolations of the urge for more, that’s what they see when they look down.’
The prime minister’s decision to cut international development aid to pay for increased defence spending is not only short sighted, says WILLIAM BROWN, it trashes the party’s proud record.
In these uncertain times, trade unions are a vital counterbalance to capital, says CHRIS WILSON. So why is union membership on the decline, and could the little known World Organisation of Workers point the way forward?
Labour’s net zero election promise was one of the boldest aspects of its manifesto. Eight months in, MJ DENISON takes stock of the government’s difficult dilemmas and warns against a rushed transition to clean power.
The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Co-operatives. DAVID J THOMPSON marks the milestone with a celebration of the movement’s unlikely birth in a small northern English town 180 years ago.
The Westminster electoral system is deeply flawed but PR is full of risks for the progressive left, says CHRIS WILSON. Could AV be the answer?
Compass and the Co-operative Party have both launched new initiatives in recent weeks aimed at understanding and tackling the rise of the far right.
MARY STRATFORD is baffled and angry at the increasingly worrying course being charted by our Labour government. We need a rethink, she says, before things become truly terrifying.
Pioneering south Wales ILPer Minnie Pallister was one of the most important feminists, pacifists, socialists and journalists of the 20th century. But her life and legacy have been largely forgotten in recent decades. Author ALUN BURGE aims to put that right.
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Labour in Government: We Need Hope, Not Hardline Policies
MARY STRATFORD is baffled and angry at the increasingly worrying course being charted by our Labour government. We need a rethink, she says, before things become truly terrifying.