Halloween means trick or treat. But if you are one of the super-rich it is Halloween every day and you always get the treats.

Welcome to the September issue of Creating Socialism. With authoritarianism on the rise we write in defence of socialism, humanism and freedom and against the threat of a police state.

More terrible tales of the evils of capitalism along with acts of resistance like Gavin Bazunu boycotting the Ireland Israel match and Asquith Xavier standing up to racism.

The tragic death of Jason Arday reveals truths about privilege, class, disability and conformity, and the racist underbelly of our society.

Musa was arrested on the London march on 16 May, held to draw people's attention to the anniversary of the 1948 catastrophe, the Nakba.

In the 1950s about 1,000 African Caribbean migrants lived in Bristol, and by 1962 this number had grown to about3,000. There was a backlash from some of the white British population, alarmed by what they saw as growing numbers,and fuelled by the Nottingham and Notting Hill race riots of 1958. There were demands for immigration to be controlled,

Children are far more vulnerable to radiation than adults. About 38,000 children were killed in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Restructuring, redundancies and industrial action at Goldsmiths is an extreme manifestation of a crisis spreading through higher education.

Mexican Poems for the Day of the Dead

Under the Radar: Plastic, Pesticides, Palestine and profits from genocide and the climate crisis. Everyday tales of capital resistance.

Our authoritarian government and other governments are silencing dissenters and activists, demonising lawyers and restricting jury trials.

There needs to be a robust response from the Church to all the atrocities that the Palestinian people suffer on a daily basis

Image from the Grimsby Local History Library Facebook Page

Our authoritarian government and other governments are silencing dissenters and activists, demonising lawyers and restricting jury trials.

There needs to be a robust response from the Church to all the atrocities that the Palestinian people suffer on a daily basis

Football can unite millions, but when sporting success becomes proof of national superiority, where does healthy pride end and nationalism begin?

Football can unite millions, but when sporting success becomes proof of national superiority, where does healthy pride end and nationalism begin?

Instead of taking umbrage I take up my pen. Click to read Penumbrage, by Mike Stanton, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

Climate change is hitting harder and more cruelly if you live in the Global South or if you are living on the streets or in poverty.

Exclusive: PM-in-waiting says party must ‘do better’ in approach to Middle East and he will put more pressure on Israel

The Russian threat is being used to browbeat us into accepting more attacks on our liberties and make sacrifices to fund a massive growth in arms spending.

Good riddance to Starmer but will Burnham be any better? From PFI to LFI he was a loyal member of Blair's government. But where are his loyalties today? Will it be warfare or welfare?

Words have consequences, especially for the victims of racist riots. But apparently not for those who incite the riots like Farage and Yaxley-Lennon. The rise in racist violence didn’t happen in a vacuum. Words, stories and those who spread them carry responsibility.

A travesty of justice in court. The Filton 4 were given harsh prison sentences related to terrorism, yet they were not convicted of terrorism

A travesty of justice in court. The Filton 4 were given harsh prison sentences related to terrorism, yet they were not convicted of terrorism.

AI is being weaponised against us. Can we turn it into an ally? Artist Felicity Hammond suggests some intriguing possibilities in Reactor.

In his first column for Zeteo UK, acclaimed journalist and author Owen Jones looks at how the lie about immigrants pushed by British media and political elites is fueling the violence we see today.

Many of those with power have children and grandchildren yet are too obsessed with short-term gain to take vital urgent action on the climate.

A battery fire hits the UK every 5 hours. Amazon, TikTok, Alibaba are exploiting a loophole to import dangerous goods. But now we have a rare chance to stop them.

The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron

The imprisonment of Palestinian health workers without charge and new death penalty laws targeting Palestinians expose a detention system that disregards humanitarian law, due process and equality before the law.