Review: Sorry to Bother You…
Boots Riley's film Sorry to Bother You (USA, 2018) is a breath of fresh air.
Caring enough to strike: US teachers’ strikes in perspective
Last week, 33,000 Los Angeles teachers went on strike. Tithi Bhattacharya analyses the past year's teachers strikes from a social reproduction framework.
Deliveroo couriers strike back in Bristol
Deliveroo couriers in Bristol went on strike on Friday demanding better pay.
‘Courageous conversations’: students occupy SOAS library
This week students at SOAS occupied the library in opposition to cuts. Seth Uzman points to the wider education struggles they are part of.
What exactly does a university Vice Chancellor do?
As HE workers prepare for action over pay, Mike Haynes asks: what do VCs actually do?
Library cuts and mathemagics
A struggle over library cuts reveals how shock doctrine tactics work at the level of an individual university.
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.
Artistic ‘freedom’: a snapshot from working in the arts
A recent demonstration of precarious workers made Liz Forster see her own experience as a zero-hour worker differently.
16 August 1819
Rich Belbin reviews Mike Leigh's film Peterloo. The film tells the story of a moment of British history that is too often forgotten.
Working-class strategy #HM2018
In the superb final session at the 2018 Historical Materialism Conference, Katy Fox-Hodess and Amanda Armstrong discussed how the left should relate to workers with different sorts of potential power and strengthen connections with...