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Jul 21
3 min

"Get Your House Into Order": Statement From The Working Class Artist Group

A statement demanding radical honesty and transparency from arts organizations as artists and staff face redundancies during COVID-19.

Jun 18
3 min

5 Reasons Why Sustainable Fashion Matters Right Now

by Olivia Jane Riley "Post Covid-19 ,we are starting to think about what a ‘new normal’ will look like. The economic crisis will hit smal...

Apr 20
5 min

Battling Productivity in Quarantine

"Capitalism is an ever-morphing monster that has managed to turn a global tragedy into a fatphobic opportunity for your betterment."

Mar 25
4 min

Why We Need a New Food System

At first, I laughed. COVID-19, an obscure irritation clogging up my news feed, suddenly became a reality on a post-work trip to Morrisons.

Jan 23
6 min

Thoughts On Political Misanthropy

"Surely a mass extinction event is more of a reason to have children?!" Julian Langer considers voluntary human extinction.

Dec 11, 2019
3 min

Seven Nation Army: The Left's Soundtrack To Deliverance

From the Iraq War to Jeremy Corbyn, Jack White's undisputed banger has led two armies to the same absurd destination.

Sep 25, 2019
3 min

Five Things I Learned At The World Transformed (2019)

At the fourth instalment of Momentum's The World Transformed festival, we talk unity on the left, acid Corbynism, accessibility, and Labour.

Aug 19, 2019
5 min

Rest as Resistance: A Guidebook to 24/7 Capitalism

Rest is integral to your own political and creative freedom. You have the right to be lazy.

Jul 30, 2019
4 min

That Which We Can Never Be: Joy Buolamwini and the Racialisation of AI

If we are to secure an AI future, as Joy Buolamwini concludes: ‘we must increase transparency in our approach to coding’.

Jul 22, 2019
2 min

The Future is a Verb

With these words, a 16-year-old autistic girl from Sweden becomes the face of a global climate justice revolution: "I want you to panic."

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