Lockdown or meltdown?

There’s no need for confusion about when and how to relax social distancing. But more pressure from below will be needed to stop the government from putting our lives at risk.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the future of Trident

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Eileen Cook highlights the danger of Trident remaining in Scotland.

The exception as the rule: Toronto’s social reproduction organising

In Toronto, community organisers are battling Covid in the shadow of colonial racial capitalism.
Relatives carry a woman who fainted after seeing the body of her husband at a hospital in Ahmedabad, India

Turning a profit from death: Modi’s pandemic response in neoliberal India

The recent upsurge of Covid across India has laid bare the Indian state's utter failure to protect its population.

Inclusion and equality matter: Why are they missing from our approach to Covid?

Zero Covid Scotland activist Hannah Hassan outlines the many ways in which Covid policies discriminate against people with disabilities and intensifies existing inequalities.
Trans+ Pride, London, 2020

Fighting the US right and its anti-trans crusade

The US right has proposed over 200 bills attacking trans people. Why are they so obsessed? How can trans people and the left fight back?
banner reading Trans Rage Trans Power Trans Liberation on pink and blue, candles in background.

Right-wing gender politics: regenerated

Lisa Leak outlines the forces arrayed against trans people in Britain now.

Boris Liar Johnson

An account of Boris's ungainly exit from British politics.
New arrivals disembarking in Palestine in July 1947

The origins of Zionism

In part one of our series on the roots of Israeli terror rs21 member Neil Rogall, looks at the origins of Zionism.

Whither Poland

Dan Davison analyses the new Polish government, the Polish left, and the rise of the far right.