Month: July 2026

A Portland activist’s meditation on resistance and futility The Democratic Party keeps doing centrist things and then wondering why young people are angry. It’s like they don’t understand that we’ve…

A Marxist’s thoughts on personal relationships in political times I’m in love with someone who’s not as politically committed as I am. He cares, but not the way I care.…

Wren Castellano on organizing, record shopping, and homesickness that never quite resolves either way Spent Tuesday evening at a genuinely packed union organizing meeting for service workers at three different…

An organiser’s diary on small beginnings and big frustrations I organised my first proper tenant union meeting this week, in the back room of a bar that smelled faintly of…

Megan Amram Portland, Oregon — I spent last night at a nightclub in Portland dancing to music that was too loud to enable conversation while simultaneously thinking about late-stage capitalism…

A left-leaning comic diary on the working wonderland, the migrant travellers, and solidarity across difference I am a comedy writer in Portland, Oregon, originally from North London, and I did…

A left-leaning comic diary on responsiveness, the honest market, and the warmth we could all afford I am a comedy writer in Portland, Oregon, originally from North London, and I…

A left-leaning comic diary on frightened wealth, redistributed treasure, and the planet we share I am a comedy writer in Portland, Oregon, originally from North London, and I did a…

A left-leaning comic diary on shepherds, real spirit, and the balance nobody wants to fund I am a comedy writer in Portland, Oregon, originally from North London, and I did…

A left-leaning comic diary on housing, the people who make room, and the joke underneath I am a comedy writer in Portland, Oregon, originally from North London, and I did…