Dave Kellaway

386 pieces on Anti*Capitalist Resistance.

Shame on you Shabana Mahmood2 November 2026
Mass anti‑government mobilisations continue in Italy30 October 2026
Budget – Preaching resilience but not for capital or the rich28 October 2026
How not to help young offenders25 October 2026
Italian youth produce political manifesto22 October 2026
Mass protests of youth and workers spread to Italy20 October 2026
Labour Holds Holborn and St Pancras but Green challenge remains9 October 2026
Surviving a nuclear war?9 October 2026
French school students in revolt8 October 2026
Burnham – the resilience of Labourism5 October 2026
The slave trade is British history24 September 2026
Climate is an emergency18 September 2026
Ana Mendieta – back to nature14 September 2026
Dover – two tier policing6 September 2026
Has China captured Apple ?25 August 2026
Behind the early release headlines12 August 2026
The Cultural Marxist conspiracy11 August 2026
Italy – the battle for the beaches5 August 2026
Key takeaways from Manchester Mayoral election1 August 2026
More Frida, less tribute and less tat please23 July 2026
King of north crowned PM20 July 2026
Shoot the People19 July 2026
Eric Tucker – Secret painter of the working class2 July 2026
Burnham – a left response28 June 2026
Burnham wins big – a new start for Labour?19 June 2026
Waiting for Makerfield14 June 2026
Julio le Parc – socialist and pioneer of immersive art12 June 2026
Belfast riots – Fascists, not ‘thuggery’10 June 2026
Blair’s blast at Labour27 May 2026
Cinema as a weapon21 May 2026
Reform win, Labour lose big, Greens advance9 May 2026
Labour Together’s fraud23 April 2026
Starmer’s Reset crashes into Mandy17 April 2026
Film, fascism, Pasolini8 April 2026
How a Hackney Academy failed to care for all its pupils28 March 2026
Hurvin Anderson – Landscapes of Disapora and belonging27 March 2026
Italians stop Meloni’s attack on judges’ autonomy24 March 2026
Understanding the French local elections23 March 2026
Tracey Emin18 March 2026
Fascism remembered7 March 2026
Ukraine Unbroken2 March 2026
Earthquake in Gorton, tremors in Downing st.27 February 2026
Andrew..one bad apple?21 February 2026
Russian troops out! Stand with Ukraine!20 February 2026
Lee Miller ‑a radical life9 February 2026
No other choice… under capitalism8 February 2026
Victory for Six Elbit activists4 February 2026
Mandelson entombed… finally2 February 2026
Radical Harmony30 January 2026
Hackney’s green/left alliance28 January 2026
Stop Palentir looting NHS22 January 2026
Prison, philosophy, family17 January 2026
Twelve Days of Xmas – Starmer style24 December 2025
More than a football shirt19 December 2025
Socialist Strategy at a crossroads17 December 2025
Budget: Progressive package or dog’s dinner27 November 2025
We need to talk about the Labour Party21 November 2025
Learning from Sami culture14 November 2025
Eco‑activist Marcus Decker fights deportation10 November 2025
Souleymane’s Story5 November 2025
Radicalisation on right and left while centre crumbles30 October 2025
Starmer defends racist Israeli football fans17 October 2025
Margaret Thatcher – a successful class warrior15 October 2025
There are rivers in the sky14 October 2025
Burnham Makes his Move30 September 2025
Trump visit – the Emperor’s new clothes21 September 2025
Deputy leadership race – Shadow boxing?14 September 2025
The rise of Farage and Reform UK13 September 2025
Rayner – no working class heroine7 September 2025
Farage – winning the polls, grabbing the headlines5 September 2025
Zack – a win for red and green politics5 September 2025
Will New Left party let Farage in?20 August 2025
Labour, tough on Grannies, easy on genocide11 August 2025
Then they came for our allotments7 August 2025
New Left party – an historic opportunity?29 July 2025
Cunliffe water report – rinsing us again28 July 2025
Capitalist Alienation filmed22 July 2025
Starmer’s first year – things can only get worse11 July 2025
Death to hypocrisy3 July 2025
Bricks, nuclear and guns won’t pay bills13 June 2025
Italy Left fails to win its referendums10 June 2025
Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws7 June 2025
Fight Labour’s austerity2 June 2025
Portuguese general election – Right and hard right further advance19 May 2025
What sort of Left do we need? (Review of What now for the left? second edition)12 May 2025
Reform – Labour is feeding the monster5 May 2025
Pope Francis’s Legacy23 April 2025
Labour’s vision…we need another US theme park13 April 2025
Labour austerity – balancing the books on the backs of the poorest28 March 2025
Donald Rodney – artist of the Black experience15 March 2025
Lose‑Lose Government – PFIs and Neoliberal Pacts21 February 2025
To a Land Unknown18 February 2025
Tariq Ali – a political life30 January 2025
He burst on the scene already a legend24 January 2025
Fury at attacks on right to protest genocide23 January 2025
Van Gogh – a radical?18 January 2025
Graduate workers – worse off at work and at home8 January 2025
Why do socialists organise internationally?30 December 2024
Anora – the anti‑Pretty Woman26 December 2024
Political Review of 202424 December 2024
Solidarity with Eco and pro‑Palestine political prisoners21 December 2024
Conclave16 December 2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat14 December 2024
Starmer’s Reset6 December 2024
Climate Choir sings against BP links with British Museum4 December 2024
Transforming the Future3 December 2024
Meloni, patriarchy does exist. 200,000 protest in Rome against violence against women26 November 2024
The Mazan trial haunts the streets of Paris26 November 2024
Debate on the Left in Britain – towards a new broad party?19 November 2024
Reeves’ Budget – A ‘Growth’ Delusion that Ignores Inequality31 October 2024
Anti‑Fascists Rally Against Tommy Robinson Hate March27 October 2024
Industry Series 3 – “Everyone’s Collateral, Right?”24 October 2024
Transform’s National Conference24 October 2024
Runcorn and the Incinerator22 October 2024
Wes’s Weight Loss Jab Wheeze22 October 2024
Italian ExGKN Workers Fight On19 October 2024
Diane Defiant13 October 2024
Starmer’s First Hundred Days13 October 2024
Labour – We Never Promised You a Rose Garden30 August 2024
How the City of London really works30 August 2024
Not all deaths at sea are equal28 August 2024
Fascists blocked by mass protest8 August 2024
The Blue Rider – A Radical Art Movement4 August 2024
Climate Choir Protests ArcelorMittal Steel – Olympics Sponsor1 August 2024
Peter Kennard – The Art of Protest31 July 2024
Two Child Benefit Revolt24 July 2024
Who was Che?21 July 2024
The Labour Programme in the King’s Speech: What Next for the Left?19 July 2024
Euros: Football, Politics, and Society12 July 2024
Sacre (bleu) rouge! – Popular Front pushes back Le Pen8 July 2024
That Was the Election That Was4 July 2024
French Elections: Far Right Consolidates Advance1 July 2024
Stopping Le Pen with the United Front25 June 2024
Blood on the Melons25 June 2024
Julian Assange – Free at Last!25 June 2024
A Joyous Protest – the Restore Nature demo24 June 2024
La Chimera: A film about tomb raiders, but Lara Croft it’s not17 June 2024
Hunger Data Compared with G7 Military Spending14 June 2024
Labour’s Manifesto – Bowing Down to the False Gods of Social Liberalism14 June 2024
European elections – far right surge but centre holds on10 June 2024
Now You See Us – Women Artists in Britain 1520‑19208 June 2024
On the red green campaign trail6 June 2024
Diane Abbott Fights Back30 May 2024
Sunak throws the dice23 May 2024
Yoko Ono – Music of the Mind18 May 2024
President Starmer steps forward to what?17 May 2024
Six takeaways from the local and mayoral elections7 May 2024
Tory routed in Blackpool South: What next for Left?3 May 2024
Why we should vote Sadiq Khan for London Mayor30 April 2024
There’s still tomorrow—a feminist film exposing male violence30 April 2024
Hackney rally stands with Diane Abbott29 April 2024
Remembering the Carnation Revolution24 April 2024
GKN Workers and Fridays for the Future Lobby Tuscan regional council23 April 2024
Meloni’s government censors anti fascism23 April 2024
Sunak’s Assault on the Sick: Blaming the Victims of Capitalism’s Failures22 April 2024
No Wes Streeting, private practice damages the NHS11 April 2024
Io Capitano is not fiction8 April 2024
Io capitano: a migrant’s journey7 April 2024
Rose Dugdale: from heiress to the IRA6 April 2024
This Town: a Midlands poetic epic5 April 2024
The Left and the Coming General Election25 March 2024
Copa 71 – Women’s football’s hidden history20 March 2024
Left activism in Turkey17 March 2024
French AntiCapitalists denounce the racist offensive and support Aya Nakamura17 March 2024
Hackney stands with Diane17 March 2024
Gove plays the extremism card14 March 2024
Portugal election – far right surges11 March 2024
Singing in Parliament against Rosebank8 March 2024
The Budget Show6 March 2024
Perfect days.. (no) shit happens?5 March 2024
Galloway wins again, this time in Rochdale1 March 2024
Palestine frames British politics today29 February 2024
Portuguese Elections –Left Bloc leader in debate27 February 2024
All you need to know about ceasefire parliamentary amendments21 February 2024
No extradiction for Assange20 February 2024
Labour’s wins by‑elections, but rubbish in Rochdale18 February 2024
Alexei Navalny: Putin’s latest victim16 February 2024
Poverty Porn vs. Black Authenticity: The Satirical Tightrope Dance of American Fiction7 February 2024
The Zone of Interest – chillingly brilliant6 February 2024
Philip Guston (1913‑1980) bearing witness to brutality and injustice3 February 2024
Divas – What are they good for?1 February 2024
What internationalism do we need today?29 January 2024
Argentinian workers strike against Milei25 January 2024
Gaza: A Film that Humanises a People16 January 2024
Italian workers at GKN in Florence continue 3 year exemplary struggle15 January 2024
Nicholas Winton: People smugglers?13 January 2024
NHS Junior Doctors fight on after longest strike11 January 2024
Post Office: How Corporate Business Stole People’s Lives9 January 2024
Doublespeak on Gaza3 January 2024
Women in Revolt – art and activism in the UK 1970 to 199031 December 2023
Vigil 2 – taking on the cover up20 December 2023
Marina Abramovic – Diva of performance art18 December 2023
A World in Common – Contemporary African Photography13 December 2023
Ofsted and the death of Ruth Perry9 December 2023
Singing against Ecocide in the City6 December 2023
‘Legal’ Immigration? How Labour Shadows the Tory Party4 December 2023
Campaigning to end Violence against Women23 November 2023
Barcelona dockers will not operate ships carrying arms7 November 2023
Pablo – the footloose revolutionary27 September 2023
Remembering: The coup in Chile11 September 2023
Labour leadership ousts Hackney North officers9 September 2023
The Tory crisis, Starmer’s caution, and the left alternative4 September 2023
Ai Wei Wei – art against tyranny1 September 2023
Remembering September 11, 1973: The US‑backed Pinochet coup in Chile29 August 2023
Rubiales’ kiss creates political storm in Spain26 August 2023
The Rossettis – a radical refugee family23 August 2023
Labour’s National Policy Forum charade28 July 2023
No For An Answer – a radical opera28 July 2023
Hard right fails to make breakthrough in Spanish election26 July 2023
Spanish general election 23 July, Can the right be stopped?18 July 2023
Anticapitalistas (Spanish State) statement on the general election to be held on 23rd July.18 July 2023
Ai Weiwei – Making Sense10 July 2023
Dump the Tories but organise for an anti‑capitalist alternative30 June 2023
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist: Just go see it!18 June 2023
Berlusconi – godfather to Trump and Johnson13 June 2023
Local Elections – Tories take a beating8 May 2023
Not my King – Protest the Coronation5 May 2023
How to blow up a pipeline: the film4 May 2023
Bring together the anti‑fascist struggle and class struggle. If not now when?4 May 2023
Hats off to XR Rebellion and ‘The Big One’ demo!25 April 2023
Diane Abbott – reject the letter but stop the witchhunt24 April 2023
Mussolini’s Children12 April 2023
Tories go low, Labour go lower – on the Labour attack ad10 April 2023
Some reflections on Livio Maitan on the occasion of the centenary5 April 2023
Remembering Livio Maitan but looking to the future5 April 2023
Are you watching Mister Starmer this is what an opposition looks like17 March 2023
Tory budget – behind the gloss it is the Same Old Tories16 March 2023
Unprecedented United Front: Teachers, Doctors, and LU Staff Together for a Monumental Day of Protest15 March 2023
Women’s abstract art ‘re‑discovered’13 March 2023
French rebellion against Pensions cuts still strong9 March 2023
Labour’s shameful failure to defend migrant workers7 March 2023
Alice Neel, painter and anarcho humanist, 1900‑19846 March 2023
Schlein shock win in PD leadership race1 March 2023
Starmer bans Corbyn17 February 2023
Fly in League with the Night16 February 2023
Meloni Marches on14 February 2023
Saint Omer…a woman has killed her baby13 February 2023
Jack’s Manchester story10 February 2023
NPA on Pensions Struggle in France8 February 2023
Living with Georgia7 February 2023
Benedict and the Catholic Church2 January 2023
Pele leaves us but his magic will never die30 December 2022
Swimming for refuge23 December 2022
Starmer/Brown constitutional plans – damp squib or radical vision?18 December 2022
Women Making Modernism14 December 2022
Barbara Kingsolver – Making the invisible, visible7 December 2022
Starmer, migration and the economy7 December 2022
The Baroness, the VIP lane and PPE profits24 November 2022
Crosscurrents and the Force of Nature – Winslow Homer22 November 2022
The English – a Western that tells the truth15 November 2022
Qatar World Cup, not just about the football15 November 2022
ACRadio Episode 2: Tories in Meltdown1 November 2022
Victory for Lula and the Brazilian people31 October 2022
No More Deaths in Custody28 October 2022
Rishi Sunak – can he fix it for the Tories?27 October 2022
Is the Labour Party dead for the Left?24 October 2022
Secrets of a holiday island22 October 2022
Why the ‘markets’ are not god19 October 2022
Starmer vs Lynch, different vision, different language5 October 2022
Labour Conference, Sir Keir rampant30 September 2022
Post Fascist Leader Giorgia Meloni Wins in Italy26 September 2022
Workers can win – a handbook for all trade union activists23 September 2022
A Caribbean Carnival of protest19 September 2022
The Queue18 September 2022
Why socialists oppose the monarchy9 September 2022
Italian elections – heading for a Meloni far right government?8 September 2022
Women’s Football Euros – a step forward for women in sport5 August 2022
Starmer’s Never Never Land27 July 2022
Watching the Tory Leadership debates18 July 2022
What’s next for socialists in the Labour Party?16 July 2022
Trotsky, the Passionate Revolutionary14 July 2022
Johnson – self pitying and delusional to the end7 July 2022
Johnson – Big dog dead6 July 2022
What happened in Melilla on Friday 24th June?30 June 2022
‘It were them the cause not you’29 June 2022
Bye Bye‑elections – Tories in Crisis24 June 2022
Macron’s regime in disarray20 June 2022
Setback for Macron in ‘third round’ of French elections14 June 2022
Big Dog Bleeding Badly7 June 2022
Stuff the Jubilee1 June 2022
Don’t extradite Julian Assange20 May 2022
Jake Daniels professional footballer and gay18 May 2022
Can Mélenchon’s left coalition defeat Macron in June?14 May 2022
Five things we have learnt from the local election results9 May 2022
Macron wins presidency but left can fight back in the ‘third round’ in elections and the streets25 April 2022
Anyone for Tennis, except you “Russkies”24 April 2022
Audiences as performers – Lubaina Himid22 April 2022
French elections – left eliminated from first round…again.11 April 2022
French Presidential Election – Left divided and on back foot1 April 2022
Exclusive! Transcript of a meeting between Rishi Sunak and his advisors25 March 2022
What sort of antiwar movement do we need today?23 March 2022
Girl Q – victim of racism and sexism21 March 2022
Krivine who?14 March 2022
NHS under the knife12 March 2022
Ukraine and the left7 March 2022
Putin’s international friends3 March 2022
Sporting and cultural boycott of Putin’s Russia28 February 2022
Everything you need to know about the French Presidential election23 February 2022
Losing your home, losing yourself18 February 2022
Labour’s law and order crusade17 February 2022
Post Office and Fujitsu bosses attack on subpostmasters/mistresses16 February 2022
Questioning the Whiteness of Western Art15 February 2022
‘Find Out What They’re Afraid Of And Sell It Back To Them’*15 February 2022
Cost of living crisis – their lies, our reality8 February 2022
Portuguese elections – ‘Socialist’ Party wins but defeat for left31 January 2022
Fascist ideas on the rise in Italy25 January 2022
Truss vs Sunak, the tale of the tape23 January 2022
Anne – Justice for the Hillsborough 97?19 January 2022
On Johnson17 January 2022
The Lost Daughter – the wounds of Motherhood12 January 2022
Novak Djokovic is no Spartacus10 January 2022
Rescued from history, Rome’s dissident communist partisans7 January 2022
Keir’s New Year speech – what he says, what it really means5 January 2022
5 of the best TV dramas this year1 January 2022
Five films I liked from 202121 December 2021
Left Victory in Chile20 December 2021
Afghan lessons20 December 2021
North Shropshire by‑election crash17 December 2021
House of Gucci saved by Lady Gaga?14 December 2021
Is Formula 1 even a sport?13 December 2021
Is Johnson losing his Teflon?9 December 2021
Why more policing won’t solve the drugs ‘problem’7 December 2021
How Richard Williams made two of the greatest tennis champions2 December 2021
Starmer’s reshuffle – look, really, we are going to be just like that nice Tony Blair30 November 2021
In praise of Manchester Art Gallery – helping people look at art differently30 November 2021
Refugees dying in the channel for Brexit and the red wall?28 November 2021
Song of the week: Contessa – a revolutionary song from the1960s23 November 2021
Chile – Fascist wins first round Presidential elections22 November 2021
Capitalism sucks – news stories that show why we need to fight the system9 November 2021
Yorkshire Cricket – God’s own white county5 November 2021
Unite union supports PR, Socialists should do the same4 November 2021
You are the illness, We are the Cure31 October 2021
Budget–myths, media lies and Johnson’s project30 October 2021
Human rights ‘sportswashed’ as Saudis take over Newcastle United30 October 2021
Windrush artwork in Hackney is a worthy legacy24 October 2021
Italy – Setback for the right confirmed24 October 2021
Fascists smash into HQ of Italy’s biggest trade union confederation14 October 2021
Johnson – could he do a Thatcher?6 October 2021
Bond – is it still the same story?6 October 2021
Italian local elections – low turnout but setback for the right6 October 2021
Mimmo Lucano sentenced to 13 years – A class vendetta1 October 2021
Starmer’s speech – Slogans that won’t change lives30 September 2021
Tell Sid Privatisation has been a failure24 September 2021
Starmer’s vision: the road to Blairism23 September 2021
GKN closes plants and sacks workers in Birmingham and in Florence22 September 2021
Nero exhibition at British Museum17 September 2021
Anthony Hopkins and Oliva Coleman excel in The Father, (2020) a film about dementia14 September 2021
Raducanu’s rise13 September 2021
Sport and capitalism today4 September 2021
Labour expels Ken Loach – a left response23 August 2021
On the Fall of Kabul16 August 2021
Apsana Begum trial: Another revolting attack by Labour’s right‑wing5 August 2021
Picture of the Week – Feminist benches on the Amalfi coast31 July 2021
Have you seen the Olympics?26 July 2021
The day after cannot be the same as before26 July 2021
Italy: Lega councillor shoots dead Moroccan migrant22 July 2021
On the Chinese regime – interview with Pierre Rousset13 July 2021
More than just a game – what we can learn from the Euros10 July 2021
Picture of the week: Forgotten Woman Painter6 July 2021
Batley and Spen – Labour score late win in last minute but this is no revival2 July 2021
French Regional Elections – seven things we learnt28 June 2021
Some Lessons of the Podemos experience22 June 2021
French Regional Elections – 66% abstain amid reactionary offensive21 June 2021
G7: Another Summit, same old story14 June 2021
Prising Open the Prison System9 June 2021
Why did Seid Visin, take his own life?6 June 2021
Bashir/Princess Diana scandal – 5 things we have learnt24 May 2021
Picture of the Week 9 Yayoi Kusama Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show (1963)23 May 2021
Why the left should not run with Burnham22 May 2021
Chilean elections – Debacle for the regime’s parties19 May 2021
Labour and left responses after Hartlepool14 May 2021
Support victimised union rep at Leaways School (Updated)11 May 2021
Disaster in Hartlepool7 May 2021
Madrid elections shake up politics in Spanish state6 May 2021
Nandy talking to the Red Wall – Labour’s new foreign policy5 May 2021
Defend the NHS against a private corporate takeover.24 April 2021
Five things we have learnt from the European Super League debacle21 April 2021
European Super League – business as usual in the ‘beautiful’ game19 April 2021
Understanding the monarchy – a socialist analysis.17 April 2021
Momentum – diminished but still a player on the left.13 April 2021
Prince Philip – Isn’t the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme Fantastic?9 April 2021
Picture of the Week 8 Mission/Missions (How to Build Cathedrals) Cildo Meireles 19876 April 2021
Picture of the Week 3 Self‑Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States by Frida Kahlo4 March 2021
Picture of the week 2 Il Quarto Stato (The Fourth Estate) by Pellizza da Volpedo, 1898‑01.22 February 2021
Picture of the Week 1: Churchill by Graham Sutherland, 195415 February 2021
Anyone for tennis?1 January 2021