It seems that MMT eventually just boils down to offering a theory to justify unrestricted government spending to sustain and/or restore full employment. That’s its task, and no other. This is why it attracts support in the reformist left of the labour movement. But this apparent virtue of MMT hides its much greater vice as an obstacle for real change.

The transgender child in want of redemption includes not only the children who are alive as children today, but the former child inside every trans adult, and every trans person in history whose future was cut off by violence, suicide, disease, or neglect. The present turn in the discourse around trans childhood depends largely on misrepresenting what it means for a child to be recognised as transgender, so correction is one tiresomely necessary task.

Still in mourning, the left shouldn’t accept the right-wing’s culture wars narrative that the small towns of this country are lost to the old and racist, and the cities are for the young multiracial Left. The penetration of BLM into Leave-voting places like Rugby or Stoke-on-Trent, let alone other towns and areas that have never before seen anti-racist mobilisations, should be a source of optimism for our side. It should force us to rethink and re-embrace the potentiality of constructing the types of social blocs which Corbynism once provided an example of.

Is pessimism then in order? Are the working class of the countries newly dominated by capital and globalisation quiescent; and has the traditional compact working class of the old capitalist countries been dissolved, to be replaced by a fragmented mass of workers prey to populist rhetoric? There are other ways of assessing the global situation.

The attack on Lydda airport in 1937 was not an isolated incident. It was, in fact, merely one instance of a wider, coordinated rebellion of Palestinians that lasted three years, from 1936-9 – one of the most significant anti-colonial uprisings of the interwar period.

Israel’s violence spreads well-beyond the carceral lines of the Israeli state; its coveted tech can now be seen on full display at one of the world’s largest trade shows. Israeli technology proliferates because Israel has a proven track record of controlling threats and erasing disruptions.

the forebodings about fascism hardly begin and end with wafer-thin analyses of ‘authoritarianism’, or analogy by listicle or Churchwellian checklist. Nor, by corollary, can they be resolved by determining what Trump was able to do in office. Trump was an inexperienced political outsider propelled into a hostile institutional complex.

how do contemporary movements for decolonisation – emerging almost exclusively from universities, museums and arts institutions – relate to the historical process of decolonisation enacted by the national liberation movements of the twentieth century? 

Despite that danger, we kept marching. We met outside until it was truly too cold to do so. Covid-19 made it nerve-wracking to be there in person at all, but doing that one thing that, I guess, so many people saw as limiting their individual freedom – wearing masks – allowed us to be out on the street fighting for our collective freedom.