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Calling all artists and poets! Send us your pieces! June is all about creative expression.
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Out of the Clinics, into the Streets!
Authors Ambrose McMonagle and Cassandra Lovelock reflect on the growing fervour of anti-trans rhetoric and the on-going failures of the political establishments through lived experiences, both personal and professional.
From the Ground Up: The Socialisation of Precarity and the Future of Social Struggles
The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity is available today from Polity Press. In this blog piece for Polity, the author, Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos writes about the book's relevance in the current rapidly changing socioeconomic environment.
May Day Special: Tacky’s Revolt – Lessons for Modern Labour from a Slave Uprising
In this special piece to celebrate May Day, Christopher D. Reid examines Tacky's Revolt and the complex interactions between slavery, geopolitics, and resistance in the Caribbean of the 18th century. He then discusses how history can inform the actions of contemporary social movements.
Beware Passivity Propaganda: China and the Left in the Times of Trump 2.0
Gerald Roche critiques pseudo-anti-imperialism and its deployment of passivity propaganda, which seeks to convince us to ignore state violence and abandon solidarity.
Book Launch: The Precarious Migrant Worker, Polity (Glasgow and London)
In the desert of neoliberal precarity, how do we struggle? We invite you to the book launches for The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity, taking place in Glasgow (9th of May 2025) and in London (12th May 2025), to explore answers to this question.
Representing Resistance, Organising and Argument: Literature and Worker Activism in Mid-20th Century America
In this talk delivered as part of the University and College's Union Political Education Programme, Chris Reid discusses a series of radical texts produced by workers in mid-20th century America, and the hopes of overcoming capitalism that they contained.
Resisting the Far-Right: Report Back from London, 1/2/25
Amidst a surging need for militant antifascist organising, Interregnum hit the streets of London to report on the antifascist demo of the 1st of February 2025.
The Way Things are Said
What is the difference between a dialect and a language? In this thought-provoking piece, Christopher Hütmannsberger reflects on the politics of language and nationalism, and explores how linguistic hierarchies reflect colonial and nationalist power relations.
The Limits to Organising: Or, the Depths of Late Fascism
No amount of sustained organising is going to remove the need to engage in conflict. Conflict not in order to change minds, but to protect ourselves against those whose minds are firmly made up.
Workers and Empire: Learning from Early 20th Century Resistance Politics in Imperial Britain – Part 2
In the second part of Workers and Empire, Christopher Reid surveys the relationships between working class revolts in the centre and the periphery of the British empire, and draws lessons from George Padmore, CLR James, and George Orwell.
Workers and Empire: Learning from Early 20th Century Resistance Politics in Imperial Britain – Part 1
In the first of two articles on the history of worker activism in the British Empire, Christopher D. Reid examines the resistances in the Welsh coalfields and of women clothworkers in Scotland, and connects them to lessons that can be learnt today.
The Monster of Avignon
As a mass rape trial comes to a close in France, Nasra Hussen looks back on all the old common myths used to justify and excuse men who have been caught in the act.
Union Busting Down Under: What the CFMEU Administration Means for Workers' Rights
As part of London IWW's Learning Circle talk series, Dr Emily Foley discusses recent events in Australia, where the government legislated to remove democratic control from one of the country's most powerful unions. We have uploaded a recording of the talk here.