Geoff Kirkwood (aka Man Power) explains how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon driven by ‘open-minded ...

The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic ...

Every time ‘ceasefire efforts’ or ‘truce negotiations’ are announced, the same scene returns to the minds of Gaza’s residents: breaking news alerts; tense scrolling through social media, and ...

On 17 June 2025, soldiers in Israeli tanks opened fire on a queue of Palestinians in Gaza. Having risen early to collect limited flour supplies, they were instead met with a rain of bullets. At least ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...

In 1994, it was possible – though challenging – to launch a monthly print magazine. Market-led politics were already eroding the welfare state but it still offered sufficient security for people to ...

Five hundred years ago, one of the greatest social movements in European history swept the Holy Roman Empire in what is now Germany. In thousands of villages, people’s private mumblings at heavy ...

Captain James Cook lands on Kanaky, naming the island ‘New Caledonia’ after the Latin name for Scotland. Nickel is discovered by Jules Garnier. As of 2024, Kanaky holds between 20 and 30 per cent of ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...

Rave subculture has attracted considerable infamy over its relatively short lifetime. However, among all the lurid tabloid reporting of hedonistic free-for-alls, rave also developed a reputation for ...