Jeremy Corbyn was elected on a wave of hope for a ‘new politics’: for a more humane, equal, democratic, anti-racist and sustainable society. It was against this background that The World Transformed (...
11 October 2019
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20 September 2019
Norman Laporte on some suggestive parallels between politics in Weimar Germany and the situation facing Brexit Britain.
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10 September 2019
Mark Perryman, editor of our new book, Corbynism from Below, makes the case for bottom-up tactical campaigning.
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10 July 2019
In the following extract from our new book Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, ...
24 May 2019
Some books are different. They have an immediacy and a life about them that is the product of the collective, rather than individual inspiration. This is certainly true of ‘Our Mary’. It was...
9 April 2019
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Mary Kaldor puts the case for a second referendum – and argues that the Labour leadership needs to listen to its overwhelmingly pro-remain supporters and members.
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8 March 2019
In this special preview of Renewal 27.1., James Stafford and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite argue that Conservative dishonesty over Brexit has put Labour in a dangerous position. By holding back from formulating a coherent and...
6 March 2019
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Soundings teamed up with The World Transformed (TWT) to organise ‘Transforming Political Education’ at Rich Mix in East London on 16 February. We wanted to explore how the contemporary left can learn from activism and different kinds of education projects to...
1 February 2019
Stuart Hall – teacher, cultural theorist, campaigner, and founder and co-editor of Soundings – was born in Kingston, Jamaica on February 3rd 86 years ago. One of the founding figures of British Cultural Studies, Stuart is remembered for...
17 January 2019
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After the failure of the No Confidence vote, Mark Perryman outlines the hard choices Labour now has to make.
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