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what i’d like to do today is to move on from this whole sordid & disappointing affair & focus on @NewSocialistUK’s actual work. so here’s a little thread of some of my favourite pieces from Bad New Times!
this extract from ‘To Exist is to Resist’ ( @PlutoPress, edited by Akwugo Emejulu & Francesca Sobande) offers a genuinely inspiring account of 100 years of Black feminist organisation in France https://newsocialist.org.uk/those-who-fight-us-without-us-are-against-us-afrofeminist-activism-france/
this review of ‘Burn it Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution’@( @VersoBooks) by @frankiemiren (who’s stoked for her forthcoming book btw?) gets at the necessary hopefulness of revolutionary politics in such a direct way that i gasped in joy! https://newsocialist.org.uk/always-spark-hope-review-burn-it-down-feminist-manifestos-revolution/
reading this through while i was putting it into the CMS on Publication Eve, i kept stopping, staring, and saying, “god, @TobyManning’s good”. an exploration of prince through the communal politics of queer, radical, joyful kin-making. 
https://newsocialist.org.uk/come-2-park-and-play-us-prince-acid-communism-and-sociality/
https://newsocialist.org.uk/come-2-park-and-play-us-prince-acid-communism-and-sociality/
here, @zaynahjpg takes on the endemic racism of the labour party, using the woeful leadership elections as her frame: “Labour cannot win without us. We... demand justice in return for our votes, rather than remaining loyal & receiving nothing in return.” https://newsocialist.org.uk/no-space-us-race-and-labour-leadership/
in this absolutely crucial &
tightly-argued piece, @james_trafford identifies the colonial origins & tactics of policing in the UK. such a necessary intervention! https://newsocialist.org.uk/riot-redactions-colonial-reverberations/
tightly-argued piece, @james_trafford identifies the colonial origins & tactics of policing in the UK. such a necessary intervention! https://newsocialist.org.uk/riot-redactions-colonial-reverberations/
the irreplaceable @Lizzieirvine84 offers an insider look at the corbyn-mcdonnell programme (including its tensions) and points the way forward for those of us still committed to the end of this world & the building of something better. https://newsocialist.org.uk/left-economics-below-defending-programme-after-corbyn/
i absolutely loved @Tom_Gann’s rather poulantzian analysis of the 2019 election, which flips the usual question—“why did corbyn lose?”—and instead asks, “why did johnson win”? this feels like a very important question to me! https://newsocialist.org.uk/fuck-business-johnsonism-hegemony-and-popular-classes/
i’m super happy we’re publishing on football, which, like all culture & all work, has never been non-political. @judeinlondon2’s timely look at football’s ongoing racism problem argues that highly-paid Black footballers are still racialised workers. https://newsocialist.org.uk/black-lives-matter-and-football/
also on football, @sanaa_mq looks at the way that “mostly from working class backgrounds, disproportionately Black” footballers are instrumentalised by the press and the government as a means of deflecting attention & blame from the failings of the state. https://newsocialist.org.uk/covid-19-football/
finally (for now), @pancake_puns’s first education column offers a worker’s perspective on what’s at stake in the discourse around schools re-opening, & how it connects to broader conservative notions of ‘a proper education’ https://newsocialist.org.uk/crisis-and-opportunity-coronavirus-and-education/
there are so so so many other great pieces in the edition! i’ll have to do another thread at some point with the rest of my favourites bc i’ve left so many out. if you want to pitch for the next edition, on ecologies, see below! https://newsocialist.org.uk/write-for-us
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