Josh White / 11 Apr 2022
Selling the News
Losing Channel 4 to the Spivs
Sitting in front of the TV waiting for the news to come on, with a plate of food on your lap. This was a common experience once upon a time.(...)
Editorial
Charlie Bertsch / 06 Apr 2022
No Oriental Fantasy Here
Albat Alawi Op. 99, by El Khat
Israeli band El Khat’s new album Albat Alawi Op. 99 is the sort of record that gets better over time. Although intriguing from the outset, it proves too complicated to absorb right away.(...)
Joel Schalit / 04 Apr 2022
Making Use of Syrians
Russia’s Populist Exception
Twenty years ago today, it would have been the stuff of conspiracy theory.(...)
John Foster / 01 Apr 2022
The Post-Soviet Future
Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge, by Christopher Smith
If the war in Ukraine has taught us anything, it’s that really good henchman are hard to find.(...)
Maxime Sattonnay / 30 Mar 2022
Putting Refugees First
French Aid Workers in Poland
Everyone’s going to Poland. Not just from Ukraine, but Western Europe.(...)
Josh White / 28 Mar 2022
The Opposition Newspaper
Morning Star and the UK Left
Walking down Beachy Road, you’ll miss William Rust House if you don’t know the address.(...)
John Foster / 25 Mar 2022
Diversity Without Nationalism
Heaven in Disorder, by Slavoj Žižek
One is always a bit apprehensive when cracking the latest publication by the eminent Slovenian curmudgeon Slavoj Žižek.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 23 Mar 2022
Club Music at War
Sounds of Survival: From Ukrainian Underground
Sounds of Survival: From Ukrainian Underground is so consistently good that its social function almost seems extraneous. We should have been listening to this music before we felt it was our democratic duty.(...)
The Battleground / 21 Mar 2022
Never Mind the News
The Battleground’s Spring Books List
It's easier than ever to lose sight of books. With global crises overtaking our lives every couple of years now, to read anything other than news gets harder by the day.(...)
Joel Schalit / 18 Mar 2022
A Russian Education
Putin’s Genocide Charge
No war in recent memory has divided progressives like the Ukraine crisis. (...)