The Your Party Split is Too Little, Too Late
Les. P. Litts responds to recent attempts to salvage something from Your Party urging the British Left to think and stop building castles in the sky.
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The Cultic Dynamics of Revolutionary Sects: Understanding the Psychology of Sectarianism
In this first article, I will argue that revolutionary sects can be understood as forms of “High Control Group” (HCGs), an academic umbrella concept (explained below) for organisations that display cultic features to varying degrees.
Letters
The special treatment of MPs must end
Talal Hargari responds to the recent uproar caused by newly elected Green MP, Hannah Spencer and the drinking habits of Members of Parliaments
Dispatches
From Queer Organising to Mass Politics – An Interview with Queers for Palestine
Prometheus Magazine interviewed Queers for Palestine on how queerness as a form of organising can confront Zionism and the patriarchy.
Towards a new student movement
Fin Deane looks at the student movement in Britain and recent attempts to form a new student organisation following disaffiliations from the NUS.
Cutting through Zionist martial supremacy: Ghassan Kanafani and present conjuncture
Rhys Machold takes stock of Israel’s self-proclaimed martial prowess and its relation to the racist foundations of Zionist supremacy, drawing from its recent genocidal attacks and the works of Ghassan Kanafani
Somaliland Nationalism at a Crossroads
Yasmin Dualeh offers a meditation on the likelihood of Somaliland nationalism’s survival in the wake of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, as well as its implications for imperial geopolitics and the future of Somali sovereignty in the Horn of Africa.
Solidarity with Linksjugend [‘solid]!
At the beginning of November, the 13000-member-strong youth wing of the German Left Party Die Linke, the Linksjugend [’solid], passed a motion titled “We must never again remain silent in the face of a genocide”. Linksjugend [‘solid] is the first major political organisation in Germany…
Death and Resistance: A Dispatch from HMP Low Newton
Madeleine Norman, of the Filton 18, reflects on their time in prison after a suicide in HMP Low Newton. In prison, as in occupied Palestine, the spectre of death is constant, and Norman emphasises that as much as death has the ability to galvanise…
