‘Make no mistake: this is just the beginning.’ That is what we said after our election victory in Islington North last year — and we meant it. A month after the election, we held our first ‘People’s Forum’. The idea behind Islington’s People’s Forums is simple yet powerful: to create a shared space where everyone’s […]
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It’s easy to denounce ‘reality shifting’ as a shared delusion. But there is value in making the world feel unfamiliar
- by Ed Simon
In the hands of a great musician, the gloriously simple guitar can create the most complex works of art. Here’s how
- by Craig Ogden
Members of Gaza’s Civil Defense force describe pulling decomposing bodies from collapsed buildings, and digging in hopes that someone remains alive.
The post Gaza’s Civil Defense Forces Keep Digging for 10,000 Missing Bodies appeared first on The Intercept.
We desperately need new organs, and we’re running out of ways to get them
The post How to Print a Human appeared first on Nautilus.
In early March, Israel reinforced its blockade of Gaza, preventing the entry of even the limited amount of food aid distributed by the UN and multinational NGOs during the previous weeks of the ceasefire. With these agencies still facing severe restrictions, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) then initiated operations in late May, having recently registered […]
Senator (yep, really) lil’ Malcolm Roberts from One Nation has not taken the news of Barnaby Joyce’s upcoming defection to the party well. With reports emerging that he was seen at Tuggeranong shopping centre screaming, crying and shouting at Pauline... Read More ›
Hitting the UK on December 7th, here's a new trailer for Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies's The War Between the Land and the Sea.
To be ‘analytical’ and ‘logical’ is a quality most people find commendable. These words carry a positive connotation. Scientists are thought to think more deeply than most because they employ ‘logical’ and ‘analytical’ methods. Dictionaries often define logic as “reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity” and ‘analysis’ as concerning the “breaking […]
The misunderstandings packed into this little bit of writing are stupendous: Over the past few years, China has been in deflation, while the US has been in inflation. Yet despite this stark divergence, the CNH has still depreciated more than 10% against the US dollar. This combination — falling relative prices in China and a […]
With Christina Chong playing characters in Doctor Who and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, we take a look at how a crossover could work.
“I am especially to speak to you of the character and mission of the United States, with special reference to the question whether we are the better or the worse for being composed of different races of men.” — Frederick Douglass, Composite Nation, 1869 Today is Thanksgiving Day in the USA. So, here’s a Thanksgiving cartoon […]
The starting point for any discussion about a united left should be to foreground why we want unity. The reason is this: we need to block the formation of a government of the radical right in Britain, and we need to create a government that can defend its people against austerity and profiteering, the worsening […]
When CoRy developed chronic illnesses as an adult, he moved in with his dad. Through mutual care, their bond has ‘blossomed’
- by Aeon Video
You have to sit down somewhere, unhurried and unbothered, to really hear yourself. But where?
- by Atar Hadari
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
- by Anna Ciaunica
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnja-m5Mms
The Chancellor's measured statement was quite different from what the weeks of media hype about it had suggested, argues Simon Nixon
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth should be as famous as Jane Austen. Born in Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire in 1886, she began working part-time in a textile factory at the age of eleven, and full-time from thirteen. She wrote poetry, the rhythm of the looms caught in her metre. A second edition of Rhymes from the Factory (1907) […]
I think a fair bit about how generative AI can help our everydays. (I also think a lot about its challenges, but this post is not about that.) Here is a good example for how it can be useful with a complex meal prep situation for which Thanksgiving is the ultimate case (which I’m celebrating […]
David Glanz looks at the origins of racism and how it continues to be pushed from the top of society in the interests of our rulers
The post Where does racism come from—and how does it survive? first appeared on Solidarity Online.
James Supple looks at how the Cronulla riot was the result of the racism pushed by John Howard’s government and the media, and the lessons as we face a rising far right today
The post The racism that led to the Cronulla riots 20 years on first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Clinton Fernandes’ new book Turbulence exposes Albanese’s own imperialist agenda in backing Trump and Israel, writes Adam Adelpour
The post Exposing Australia’s own imperialist agenda first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Last Friday, I met a journalist in Tokyo and we discussed among other things, the results of the latest Nikkei/JCER ‘Economics Panel’, which was conducted between November 13 and November 18, 2025. The panel involves “questionnaires” being “sent to approximately 50 economists to gather their evaluations of various economic policies. The aim is to promote…