Theory and the battle of ideas

No Surrender

No Surrender is our motto and our duty

No Surrender is an important social realist novel about the battle for votes for women. It was written in the moment, at the height of the campaign, by an active suffragette, Constance Maud. Maud was a champion of working class women activists in the suffragette movement at a time when they were dismissed and disregarded by the autocratic leadership of the militant, headline grabbing Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Through their graphic novel, Sophie and Scarlett Rickard have taken No Surrender and breathed new life into it for a 21st century readership.

Hayek

The ambiguities of Hayek

Andrew Gamble, author of Hayek: The Iron Cage of Liberty, talked with Martin Thomas from Solidarity about the recent new biography Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950, by Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger. Friedrich Hayek was an economist who in 1944, and for the rest of his life, especially in the Thatcher years 1979-90, became the leading writer of the free-market right.

City buildings with giant breast

Feminist cities

Rebecca Lawrence reviews:

Feminist City, Claiming Space in a Man-Made World (2021), by Leslie Kern
Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, May-September 2022
Making Space (1984), by feminist collective Matrix

Socialism

What is socialism?

In our editorial this week we argue to “get socialists organised”. What do we mean by socialism?


We fight for emergency policies, like taxing the wealth of the super-rich and public ownership of key industries and corporations, to allow action to halt and reverse ever-greater inequality and to slow down climate change. We fight to build a stronger workers’ movement, including trade unions, to win these steps.

Global shipping

Shifts in the world order

Economic barriers between countries are growing. The world is less "flat" than it used to be, in the sense of being a free-fire zone for capitalist trade and investment with negligible barriers to surmount at borders. It is more "multipolar", in the sense of differentiated political and economic networks, each with its own centre or centres.

How far has this gone? What, in more exact terms, are the trends? What should socialists make of it?

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