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  • Crush the Saboteurs

    Crush the Saboteurs

    Since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, the language of treason has returned to British political discourse - notably so with the recent video footage of soldiers in Afghanistan firing at a picture of Corbyn and Nigel Farage's claims that he would ‘pick up a rifle’ if Brexit was not delivered. In this article, Eleanor Penny analyses what it at stake in this new language of treason and what that means for British politics and society.

  • Walter Rodney and the Question of Power: C.L.R James

    Walter Rodney and the Question of Power: C.L.R James

    Walter Rodney, the great Marxist historian and activist, was killed on June 13th 1980 by a bomb in his native Guyana. In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.

  • An Interview with Brian Eno

    An Interview with Brian Eno

    On the latest Suite (212) on Resonance FM, Juliet Jacques talks to Brian Eno, about new music, new technology, neoliberalism, and the responsibilities of artists in 2019.

  • Solidarity is a verb: the promise of Ilhan Omar

    Solidarity is a verb: the promise of Ilhan Omar

    March saw attacks on Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar for expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine and for criticising the outsized U.S. political preoccupation with the Israeli state. In this article, Sophia Azeb reads the targeting of Omar through the work of the late poet and activist June Jordan, and argues that only by bearing witness can we hold the state to account.

  • The Paras in Kabul

    The Paras in Kabul

    Paratroopers in Kabul recently provoked controversy by filming themselves using an image of Jeremy Corbyn for target practice. In this piece, Tariq Ali placed the incident in the context of the establishment's fears of having Corbyn as Prime Minister.