An extract from Homosexuality: Power and Politics by The Gay Left Collective - an anthology combining the very best of their work from 1975 and 1980, exploring masculinity and workplace organising, counterculture and disco, the survivals of victorian morality and the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Recent events have conclusively proved that social media is not the neutral global community that it is often taken to be – not least the recent purge of Facebook profiles of those voices critical of US foreign policy. In this article, Lewis Bassett argues that we are beginning to witness the growth of a tech monopoly capitalism that backs up US imperialism, and asks how, in the face of this, can we build a new left media.
Today is the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty, organised by La Via Campesina. In this article, Max Ajl reports from Tunisia on the struggles for food sovereignty there, and on what it means for the Global South.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Tommie Smith and John Carlos' iconic black power salute on the 200-meter dash podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Jules Boykoff explains the significance of this radical act in this excerpt from Power Games.
Who should be protected by the international system of law? Do economic migrants have the same right to entry as those fleeing war and destruction? In this episode of This is Hell! Radio, Daniel Trilling addresses these crucial questions and argues for an international framework that treats migration as a human need, rather than as a problem that can only be solved through violent state repression and militarised borders.
Nisha Kapoor discusses Islamophobia, the War on Terror, the adoption of counterinsurgency tactics in the UK, and the government's 'Prevent' counter-terrorism programme and its effects on Britain's Muslim population, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast
Today marks the 31st anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, leader of the Burkinabè August Revolution which overthrew country’s corrupt military leadership in 1983. In this essay, Amber Murrey reflects on Sankara's legacy, and the ways in which that legacy is remembered via art and music in West Africa.
How do we think through the relation between race and class in capitalism? Responding to the recent intervention of Adolph Reed, Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh argue that, following Stuart Hall, race is the modality in which class is lived and that only by capturing the fundamental social experience of the unity of race and class can we avoid the pitfalls of separating them analytically and falling into "bothandism".
Psychoanalysis has been criticised for being bourgeois, narcissistic, and too focused on the individual at the expense of socio-economic circumstances. With an increasing popular interest in issues of social justice, has the discipline lost its relevance? In the third part of her series of articles on Freud, Linda Roland Danil makes a case for the continued importance of psychoanalytic treatment, and shows that these individual acts of resistance can have repercussions in society at large.
The tendency to see art and science as two distinct and antithetical spheres is the dominant way of viewing the two in contemporary society. Yet, as Jessie Florence Jones argues, it is only through creative attempts to bridge this divide, like recent exhibitions at FACT in Liverpool, can we nurture the revolutionary artists, and scientists, of the future.
The millions whose photographs are taken are not referred to in the histories and theories of photography. From an early stage, it was assumed that the people photographed provided the resources and the cheap or free labor for the large-scale photographic enterprise. In this fourth part of the Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography series, Ariella Azoulay looks at photographers as cultural agents of imperialism.
In an interview with Elizabeth Adetiba, founder of the Me Too movement Tarana Burke emphasizes the crucial nature of centering marginalized voices and attacking institutional forces in the conversation around sexual violence.