Smiley’s People Wouldn’t Survive This
Ryan’s Second Strike is a taut, post-Brexit techno-thriller in which privatised warfare meets Cold War ghosts, and the real enemy is the story you’re told to believe.
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Ryan’s Second Strike is a taut, post-Brexit techno-thriller in which privatised warfare meets Cold War ghosts, and the real enemy is the story you’re told to believe.
Geoff Dyer’s Homework shows childhood not as innocence, but as class training—plastic toys, unwritten rules, and a welfare state already fraying at the edges.
Britain doesn’t need a softer Starmer or a greener liberalism—it needs a new party of revolutionary ecosocialism, built by those brave enough to walk out and fight for class power, not manage its decline.
They say prisons are overcrowded, as if the cages are too small. As if the problem is spatial. As if all we need is a few more acres of razor wire and reinforced concrete and the crisis will vanish. But prisons aren’t full because we lack space. They’re full because we lack imagination.
Nigel Farage isn’t the voice of the working class—he’s their grifter-in-chief, selling tax cuts to the comfortable while Labour trails behind him, too timid to name the real enemy.
On Jane Borden’s Cults Like Us
They say prisons are overcrowded, as if the cages are too small. As if the problem is spatial. As if all we need is a few more acres of razor wire and reinforced concrete and the crisis will vanish. But prisons aren’t full because we lack space. They’re full because we lack imagination.
Dismantling Inequality: A Bold Vision for a Marxist Police Reform – Delve into an exploration of community-based alternatives to the traditional Metropolitan Police, as we imagine a world where law enforcement aligns with our values and drives societal transformation.
The Metropolitan Police’s deep-rooted issues demand a comprehensive overhaul, leading to the urgent question: is it time to dismantle the Met and rebuild a force that truly serves London’s diverse communities?
Through the ideas of Stuart Hall, this post looks at the persistent problems of the Metropolitan Police and the complicated relationship between policing, power, and social inequality.
What are police? For a marxist, that is an easy question to answer, they are a tool of the ruling class, serving to maintain social control and protect private property interests.
If the left can’t come together to fight the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, is that it for mass protest?