Colin Revolting
Review: Sorry We Missed You
Colin Revolting reviews director Ken Loach's latest film, which centres on the family of two workers in the gig economy
Review: Never Again
Colin Revolting reviews Never Again by David Renton, the story of the fascist National Front and the campaign which stopped it in its tracks.
How students supported the miners’ strike: an activist remembers
On 6 March 1984, the walkout at Cortonwood Colliery signalled the beginning of the 1984-85 miners' strike. Colin Revolting remembers how he and his fellow students supported the miners.
Academies suck… money and life out of our schools
A key dispute in the battle against education privatisation has been unfolding at John Roan school in Greenwich. Support staff will be on strike again next week.
A Kestral for a Knave: fifty years on
Barry Hines's book A Kestrel for a Knave, which became the film Kes, was published fifty years ago this year, but it remains as relevant as ever.
Welcome to The Jungle
Colin Revolting and his son were moved to tears by the new play The Jungle, currently showing at the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End.
Music as a force for change: an interview with Redskins’ Martin...
An interview with Martin Hewes of the Redskins, to some the true inheritors of the Clash's crown as the radical rockers
Rocking Against Racism and other irrational ideologies
The first Rock Against Racism carnival took place forty years ago, on April 30 1978.
University picket lines – a place of learning
Footage from Goldsmiths college picket line where staff and students talk about their experience of striking so far.
Hacking the Spectacle: an interview with Darren Cullen
Cullen uses the language of advertising to make art taking aim at militarism and consumerism
Latest articles
Trans Day of Remembrance 2019
20 November is Trans Day of Remembrance. Patricia Lockhart, an activist with Sisters Uncut, reports on developments in Scotland and argues that socialists need to stand against transphobia now more than ever.
Hong Kong: the occupation of Poly U
Colin Sparks reports on the ongoing occupation of the Polytechnic University in Hong Kong.
Review: The Twittering Machine
Mark Murphy reviews Richard Seymour's latest book, which uses a psychoanalytical framework to understand the phenomenon of social media.
What a way to make a living | An agency worker in the hospitality...
A former agency worker recounts their experiences in the hospitality industry.
Labour manifesto – what the grassroots membership demands
Hanna Gál reports on the campaigns of the grassroots Labour Party membership for a progressive election manifesto.
Defend workers’ rights – against McCluskey
Unite activist Ian Allinson responds to Len McCluskey's attempt to undermine the free movement policy agreed at Labour conference.
Education struggles in Greece
A struggle against neoliberal reforms to Higher Education in Greece has come to a head this week.
Bolivia #ThisIsACoup
The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has been forced from office in a coup following two weeks of civil unrest and a disputed presidential election.
Battles rage across Hong Kong
The confrontation in Hong Kong has entered a new phase with pitched battles across the city running through the week.
Report: Jeremy Corbyn in the O2 Apollo, Manchester
Kate Bradley reports on Jeremy Corbyn's Manchester rally.
Highlights
Striking together for Higher Education
The whys, whats and what nexts of the upcoming higher education strikes, which begin on 25 November.
revolutionary reflections | Class struggles in the 1989 revolution
For the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we publish a translation of Volkhard Mosler's analysis of the class composition of the East German regime and the opposition movement to it.
Fight for a Labour government
We call for everyone to mobilise energetically against the Conservative Party and for the election of a Corbyn government
What a way to make a living | The Royal Mail sorting office
In the latest instalment of our What a way to make a living series, Daniel Freeborn tells us about the daily grind at a Royal Mail sorting office.
revolutionary reflections | Endgames of US petro-imperialism?
Brian Parkin explains some of the contradictions of the energy markets and the process of US imperial decline in an era of climate catastrophe