You weren’t a member, you tell me, in 2013 when the arguments happened. You’ve heard, of course, there was some controversy but you have been told that the people who left were sectaria…| lives; running
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For some time, I’ve been collecting novels which focus on the far right. One of them is a book published in 1938, Minimum Man, published under the pseudonym Andrew Marvell. That book tells the stor…| lives; running
Niamh listened to the whisper of the water as the wind passed over. A woman sat down on the same bench as her – leaving a small gap between them. The woman wore a black dress, its thick material lo…| lives; running
At the start of August, I was one of the organisers of the demo outside the Thistle Barbican hotel. That protest was called by a meeting of 50 people representing around 20 anti-racist groups. We w…| lives; running
4 posts published by lives; running during August 2025| lives; running
Usually, when I write, I have a destination in mind when I begin – a critique of another socialist perhaps, or a proposal for how we should organise the left differently. Here, though, my question …| lives; running
From the Flag to the Cross is the first book in what I’m hoping will become a significant genre of texts written for a activist audience, explaining what’s at stake in the Trump second Presidency and how to resist it. The book isn’t without flaws; but whatever criticisms I make of it, I’m glad it’s […]| lives; running
Here, I introduce the real-life historical figure who is my Jenny Greenteeth’s antagonist. I first came across the name, Edward Fairfax, more than 30 years ago. The historian of magic, Keith Thomas, was giving a guest lecture which I attended aged 17. He was a charming and erudite speaker. After he’d finished his talk, which […]| lives; running
“There were in London at this time any number of abusers, braggarts, bullies, cocks, conformists, crawlers, daddy’s boys, dullards, egotists, misogynists, narcissists, offenders, perpetrators and pimps, not forgetting the women who were expected to endure them. Jenny watched the young men, the ones who went to the gym, who sucked in their stomachs and blew […]| lives; running
In the aftermath of last year’s Southport riots, the right made sustained attempts to identify a face who they hoped would prove a pattern of aggressive sentencing – someone whose suffering might change the story into one in which the riots had been necessary or useful, or prove that the right was in some way […]| lives; running
Between 2018 and 2023, the Undercover Policing Inquiry published information about the police unit known as the Special Operation Squad / the Special Demonstration Squad [SDS] in the years covering 1968 to 1982 (“tranche 1”). That work culminated in an interim report, not a history of SDS but a tick-box exercise in which the author […]| lives; running
Audrey White – 40 years of campaigning for justice We are living in a moment when politicians of all sorts – both reactionaries and declared social democrats – promise an increase in police powers against protests. But we also live under a state which for decades after 1945 prided itself on its commitment to democracy. […]| lives; running
I’ve waited a week before posting about the death of Diogo Jota. I’m conscious that few of the people who read my work share my interest in football, fewer still my support for Liverpool. Don’t wor…| lives; running
From the Flag to the Cross is the first book in what I’m hoping will become a significant genre of texts written for a activist audience, explaining what’s at stake in the Trump second Presidency and how to resist it. The book isn’t without flaws; but whatever criticisms I make of it, I’m glad it’s in print, and I hope there will be many more books like it soon, summoning into being the large anti-fascist crowd that we need.| lives; running
The story of Brianna Ghey’s will be familiar to many friends. A 16 year old trans woman in Warrington, she built up a Tiktok audience in the hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions. Brianna was m…| lives; running
