While this blog has been quiet over the last six months or so, the Frightful Hobgoblins collective has been active, meeting weekly and writing for a range of publications. …

Watch David Jamieson (editor and writer at Conter) discuss the culture wars, its social origins, its distorting impact on left intellectual life and how socialists should intervene in them.

JS Titus on the Labour Party’s legacy of racism and its relationship to electoralism and imperialism. Over the last five years, charges of antisemitism have been laid against Labour Party members and the former leader Jeremy Corbyn himself, with the recent storm around the release of the EHRC report on…

Watch Barnaby Raine (PhD in History at Columbia) and Sai Englert (socialist and member of the editorial boards for Historical Materialism Journal and Notes from Below) discuss contemporary antisemitism in both its “from below” and “from above” forms.

JS Titus argues that the demand to defund the police must extend beyond reallocating existing government spending to social services. This article was originally published on 20 July 2020. The eruption of the Black Lives Matter protests since the murder of George Floyd in May have shaken the US. The…

Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal analyses BLM movement in Britain and argues for centring the politics of abolition and anti-imperialist solidarity. This article was originally published on 30 June 2020. In the weeks since the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis policemen was filmed and broadcast via social media around the world…