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Cory Doctorow: AI bubbles, bosses and sci-fi

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000

As The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI hits shelves, author Cory Doctorow explains the widely destructive promise of the AI bubble

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Fires in the Night – review

Rhian Jones — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Gareth Thompson reviews a nail-biting history of environmentalist direct action

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Iran: a third way between oppression and aggression

Kimon Daltas — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Can Iranians really only choose between repressive state or colonialist invasion? Alain Alameddine speaks to Iranian independent feminist collective Tanide

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Stella Dadzie: A Whole Heap of Mix Up – review

Gerry Hart — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Stella Dadzie's collection of essays, poems, diary entries and speeches highlights the importance of Black feminist archival practices, writes Grace Blenkinsop

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Citizens’ Advice and the hidden cost of welfare reform

Gerry Hart — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Within an overstretched system, Citizens Advice workers are forced to ration empathy, writes Gareth Oliver

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Nueva derecha: Latin America’s new authoritarians

Gerry Hart — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

After a year of change in South America, Cameron Baillie profiles the ‘new right’ leaders threatening to deluge the 2020s’ ‘pink wave’ – and the communities resisting them

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Fighting fire with fellowship

Andy Brain — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

As Palestinian firefighters face multiple threats under occupation, Rachel Spence reports on acts of solidarity and support between international workers' unions

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Britain’s electorate has changed – our voting system needs to keep up

Rhian Jones — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

First Past the Post is no longer fit for purpose. Livvy Gibbs assesses the alternatives

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Corporate profiteering and the war on Iran

Andy Brain — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Amid the war on Iran, UK economic policy allows the super-rich to profit while the public struggle with living costs, writes Jake Woodier

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Real existing degrowth

Rhian Jones — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Radical alternatives to capitalism are being practiced across the world as everyday realities, writes Grace Wright-Arora

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