What Frantz Fanon can tell us about the West’s colonial war in Gaza The analysis of the pioneering anti-colonial writer is still relevant in today’s war in Gaza. The parallels between the Algeria liberation war and the West’s conduct today are many, writes JOE GILL
Thursday 09th Mar 2023 Opinion Not the right stuff: Starmer’s pyrrhic victory The Labour leader has backed himself and his allies into a corner with their commitment to scapegoating progressive politics — but going to the right won’t work for long if Labour is elected as an alternative to the Tories, argues JOE GILL
Friday 09th Sep 2022 The royals, the empire, war and repression: time for honesty The Queen will be mourned by the millions who loved her, but a reckoning must be made with her family’s key role in preserving a corrupt, authoritarian system of monarchies across swathes of the Middle East, writes JOE GILL
Monday 18th Jul 2022 John Bolton, please don’t mention our coups The neoconservative former diplomat has upset Washington insiders and spies by breaking an omerta about US involvement in regime change, says JOE GILL
Theatre Review Friday 20th May 2022 Theatre Review Brighton revolutionaries seize the day JOE GILL is hooked by an urgent imagined rehearsal of what attempting to overthrow capitalism might look like
Monday 03rd May 2021 Covid-denialism: the right-wing ‘freedom’ movement winning hearts and minds Via the anti-lockdown protests, reactionary conspiracy-theory politics backed by big money have broken through to a fervent working-class audience, warns JOE GILL
BOOKS Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 BOOKS From architect of global order to rogue imperial power JOE GILL recommends an incisive account of inexorable US decline
Saturday 06th Mar 2021 Rejoice oh people — we beat Covid and now comes Rishi the magic money man JOE GILL is sickened by the media pandering to Tory myth-making and forced post-Covid jubilation — as if a corrupt and bungled response to the pandemic had not led to thousands of unnecessary deaths
Thursday 07th Jan 2021 This is our 1940 and Johnson is our Chamberlain The PM’s failure to take early, decisive action has left Britain exposed to the deadly virus. JOE GILL wonders whether this will lead to a wave of politicisation by those on the front line
Monday 14th Dec 2020 Opinion Labour left prepared to draw the line At least now, much more than a year ago, socialist Labour activists know who is against them and what they are prepared to do to stop them. JOE GILL believes the Labour right will fail
Sunday 04th Oct 2020 Covid-19 and the rise of the conspiracy movement Years of government lies and misinformation combined with profit-driven internet algorithms and a growing public alienation from ‘official’ politics have fuelled a rise in conspiracy theories, writes JOE GILL
