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Non-fiction: Left Out - the inside story of Labour under Corbyn

Retreat and hesitation could not beat the relentless right wing

Video game developer attacks Black Lives Matter

Just two months ago, French video game giant Ubisoft joined the hollow chorus of corporations exclaiming that black lives matter

TV: Once Upon a Time in Iraq

No one could watch this five-part documentary series about the Iraq war and come away with the feeling that the war was anything but a catastrophe for the people of Iraq, the Middle East and humanity as a whole.

Manctopia: billion pound property boom

Manctopia is a four-part documentary about housing in Manchester, filmed over the course of one year

75 years since the publication of Animal Farm: From 'two legs bad' to 'two legs better'

What does Orwell's fable actually say about revolution?

Exciting Cuban spy thriller exposes US-sponsored terrorism

Action-packed and exciting, Wasp Network is a spy thriller that tells the story of the 'Cuban Five'

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I joined the Socialist Party to fight back

Since the coronavirus crisis started, managers at the Sainsbury's where I work have gone on the offensive, handing out disciplinary investigations like confetti

TV: Ross Kemp - Living with Forced Out Families

Yet another housing scandal: Homeless people are faced with leaving their local area in order to put a roof over their head

Books that inspired me: The Mother

"Seas of blood won't extinguish the truth": How a working-class Russian woman became a revolutionary socialist

How the FBI and Chicago police murdered a Black Panther

Books that inspired me: Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, deserves wider recognition as a socialist leader for black liberation

TV: The school that tried to end racism

This series showed an experiment with a group of Year 7 students in a South London school to explore how racism was learnt

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Books that inspired me: The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin's 'The fire next time' is a series of short essays describing the author's experiences of being black in America in the 1950s and 60s

From slavery to Black Lives Matter - racism and capitalist injustice exposed

TV review: 13th: I was encouraged to watch this documentary by my daughter who has recently been motivated to go to her first protest, the Black Lives Matter demos against racism.

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I left Labour and want to end capitalism - join us in Socialist Party

I feel fortunate to have been raised by socialist parents. In my house in the 1990s and 2000s, Blair was as dirty a name as Thatcher.

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A timely read about a pandemic that overwhelms society

Fiction: The Scarlet Plague: It's timely to read Jack London's short story about a virulent pandemic that sends human civilisation into the abyss

Tears and anger over the treatment of the Windrush generation

'Sitting in Limbo' is a powerful and moving real-life drama. It shows the trauma of Anthony Bryan, a member of the Windrush generation, as he struggles against removal from Britain