Asylum Magazine, founded in 1986 as a hospital ward newsletter, described itself for many years as a magazine for ‘democratic psychiatry’. This was a reference to the attempt by the Psichiatria Democratica movement in Italy to close down old mental hospitals, one that had partial success in Trieste.
In the United States Black Lives Matter has severely damaged Trump. The movement made the connection between the racism of American society and the staggeringly disproportionate death toll of Black Americans in the pandemic.
The authors of the letter called on the Labour leadership candidates to defend our right to free speech to expose Israel’s horrendous treatment of Palestinians.
Richie Venton, SSP trade union organiser, looks at the issues that we need to fight for as the havoc neoliberalism coincides with the health crisis.
This pandemic starkly poses questions about austerity, profiteering, the control of production and distribution, housing, poverty and homelessness, writes Andy Stowe.
As the number of Coronavirus cases continues to rise, few political issues are discussed without reference to the virus and its impacts. writes Mark Findlay.
Andy Stowe reviews the film “Greed”, directed by Michael Winterbottom, and with Steve Coogan as McCreadie, a fashion mogul based on real-life billionaire Sir Philip Green.
Michael Löwy argues that the ecological crisis is already the most important social and political question of the 21st century.
As Bashar al-Assad brutally crushes the last areas in not under his control, Syrian socialist Joseph Daher gives this wide-ranging interview
