When All Else Fails, Blame the Youth
Young people are facing the worst of the pandemic’s long-term fallout – but rather than offer them help, the government has spent the last year using them as a scapegoat for its own repeated failures.
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Ko Leik Pya
Ko Leik Pya works as a teacher and writer in the UK and Myanmar. He writes here under a pseudonym.
The Fight for the Future of Social Care
This week, the government once again promised reforms to the social care sector – but it’s clear that the Tories will never deliver the service we need: publicly-owned, universal and with dignity for all its workers.
How Glasgow Beat the Home Office
This week’s standoff between Glasgow’s Southside and the Home Office was an inspiring victory, but it wasn’t spontaneous – it was the product of many years of organising against evictions and deportations.
On Nakba Day, Palestine Is Rising Against Decades of Oppression
Today is Nakba Day, when Palestinians mourn expulsion from their homeland in 1948. This year, Israel’s violence has ignited the largest Palestinian uprising in years – and it needs meaningful international solidarity.
How Grassroots Activists Are Rebuilding Solidarity in Southampton
As poverty rises in the wake of Covid, the Southampton Social Aid Group is organising in communities, not to offer charity but to build solidarity – renewing the bonds decayed by decades of neoliberalism.
The Privatisation of Manchester
As Manchester becomes increasingly gentrified and local communities are priced out, a new report on the city’s land use has found a pattern of privatisation and sell-offs – aided and abetted by its Labour council.
We Didn’t Need to Lose Durham
Last week, Labour lost its majority on Durham County Council for the first time in 100 years. A local councillor who bucked the trend explains why the party needs class politics and a bold social vision to turn the tide.
‘No Father Should See His Children Live Like This’: An Open Letter from Gaza
Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed 119 people so far, including 31 children – a father living in the city writes about the horror of last night’s bombing and calls for action from the international community.
How Public Ownership Helped the Tories in Tees Valley
One of the Tories’ biggest wins in the elections came in Tees Valley, where their mayor brought the local airport back into public ownership – a stark reminder of Labour’s own failure to foreground renationalisation.
How Private Debt Collectors Were Turned on Bristol’s Student Rent Strike
Bristol University has informed its student rent strikers that their debts will be passed onto private collectors – it’s just the latest sign that our universities are more interested in money than student wellbeing.
Israel’s Violence Shows Why Now Is the Time for BDS
It is increasingly clear that Israel has no intention of ending its occupation and dispossession of the Palestinians – faced with this reality, it’s time for the world to act through boycott, divestment and sanctions.
No, The Tories Aren’t ‘Moving Left’ on the Economy
There has been a lot of commentary about how the Tories are ‘moving left’ on the economy, but their newly interventionist policies won’t help workers – they are designed to prop up British capitalism.
How Labour Lost the Nurses
A recent poll shows Labour’s support among nurses has plummeted by 50 points since 2019 – exposing the party’s disastrous failure to commit to the pay increase that NHS staff and their unions have demanded.
Bristol Shows the Cost of Starmer’s War on Labour Members
Last week, Labour lost control of Bristol council after a swing to the Green Party across the city – a sign that its leadership’s move rightwards and war on party members has real electoral costs.
Peter Mandelson: Lobbyist for Union-Busters, Big Banks and Oligarchs
Peter Mandelson’s return as an advisor to the Starmer leadership doesn’t just drag the party to the right – it also puts a major corporate lobbyist, who represents union-busting Centrica, at the heart of Labour politics.
36. Where Labour Won: An Interview with Matthew Brown and Paul Dennett
This week, Grace speaks to Paul Dennett, the city-mayor of Salford, and Matthew Brown, the leader of Preston City Council, about why explicitly socialist campaigns defied Labour’s election downturn.
The Ballymurphy Verdict Exposes the Reality of State Violence
Yesterday, an inquest found that 10 people killed by the British Army in Belfast in 1971 were ‘entirely innocent.’ The decision exposes one 50-year cover-up of state violence – and raises questions about many others.
Unionism Over Socialism Is Still a Dead-End for Scottish Labour
Scottish Labour’s performance in the election has received praise, but the bright spots can’t disguise the party’s overall decline – and its policy of writing off working-class SNP voters remains a costly mistake.
Voter ID Is Voter Suppression
The Tories are proposing voter ID laws to solve the almost non-existent problem of voter fraud – but what they really want is to copy their Republican cousins in the US and disenfranchise poorer voters.
Britain Is Complicit in Israel’s Violence Against Palestinians
From the earliest days, Britain’s government has been complicit in the dispossession of Palestinians – and today, as Israel’s violence deepens, it is also a key supplier of weapons to its brutal military occupation.