New Socialist.
josie is a writer, and a co-editor of New Socialist. Her website is peachtreepeartree.com.
Twitter: @ofthesparrows
Dec. 6, 2022
josie sparrow
Does ‘left media’ have to reproduce the attitudes and practices of the ‘mainstream’? How might we imagine something different?
EDITION: 5th Birthday | Essays
Oct. 14, 2022
An extended version of a talk given at Feminism is for Every Body, TWT2022.
EDITION: 5th Birthday | NS x TWT
Sept. 21, 2022
Previewing our event at this year's TWT.
EDITION: 5th Birthday | Editorials
June 16, 2022
josie sparrow, The Editors
Apsana Begum has been subjected to an escalating campaign of harassment, abuse, and intimidation. We stand in solidarity with her, and with all victims of abuse.
Oct. 16, 2021
An introduction to some of the themes and thinking behind our ECOLOGIES edition.
EDITION: ECOLOGIES | Editorials
Jason W. Moore, Tom Gann, josie sparrow
The Marxist geographer talks with Tom Gann and josie sparrow about world ecology, Marxist beef, and what it means to be in solidarity with oppressed and devalued natures.
EDITION: ECOLOGIES | In Conversation
Dec. 11, 2020
Tom Gann, josie sparrow
In the first of three pieces, Tom Gann and josie sparrow reflect on some of the possibilities and limits of tenants' organising.
Aug. 25, 2020
Tom and josie consider the relationship between Zheng Chaolin’s life, his politics, and his poetry.
EDITION: Bad New Times | Books
A review of Lola Olufemi’s 'Feminism, Interrupted' and Alison Phipps’s 'Me, Not You'.
What do horseshoe crabs, COVID-19, Stonehenge, ticks, and Kirstie Allsopp have in common? They all have a part to play in the story of how capital produces nature.
EDITION: Bad New Times | Essays
April 23, 2020
For capital, the Covid-19 crisis represents an opportunity. How can the left resist and respond in ways that are affirmative of life?
KEYWORDS: Theory and Strategy
April 15, 2020
Lola Olufemi, josie sparrow
Lola Olufemi discusses her latest book, 'Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power'
KEYWORDS: Feminisms
Feb. 24, 2020
Keir Starmer's leadership bid gestures towards generosity whilst manipulating our emotions & appealing to our unconscious biases. We should refuse this dishonesty.
Dec. 11, 2019
Our hope, our love, and our togetherness are powerfully transformative. We must never forget this.
Sept. 23, 2019
John McDonnell's UBS report offers a potential framework for a revolution in the ways we conceive of and meet our needs.
KEYWORDS: Theory and Strategy, Economic Democracy
Aug. 28, 2019
Tom Williams, Tom Gann, josie sparrow
Join us at TWT 2019 to explore how we can better handle contradictions as socialists.
KEYWORDS: The World Transformed 2019
June 16, 2019
Technocratic policy fixes and sci-fi fantasies won’t save us—ecological collapse calls us to rethink our attitudes to extraction, exploitation, and interconnection.
KEYWORDS: Theory and Strategy, Political Ecologies
March 10, 2019
Recent attempts to rehabilitate vitalism, despite claims to be radically ecological, are an example of how fascism re-appropriates the past in an attempt to colonise the future.
Feb. 25, 2019
What does the Independent Group’s claimed “duty to lead” tell us about their attitude towards the world-making capacities of the working class?
Dec. 31, 2018
Tom Gann, Wendy Liu, Kyle, Rhian E. Jones, josie sparrow
Some of our editors' favourite pieces we've published in 2018
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Oct. 25, 2018
Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘The Tower’ is neither radical or neutral, but a symptom of a middle-class journalism that upholds and supports the given political order through its dishonest claims of objectivity