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Ko Leik Pya works as a teacher and writer in the UK and Myanmar. He writes here under a pseudonym.
In this week’s episode, Grace is joined by activist and author Ellen Clifford to discuss the impact of successive governments’ human rights violations, a decade of austerity, and the pandemic on the lives of disabled people in Britain.
A huge proportion of the UK’s Covid deaths have been disabled people — but devastating cuts to health services and local government funds put the community at risk years before the virus hit.
This year’s successful Rolls Royce strike brought Barnoldswick back to the headlines – but in the mid-1980s it was the site of one of the longest strikes in British history.
Critic and philosopher Herbert Read was a contradictory figure – an anarchist and a knight, a lover of medieval art and industrial design – but at the centre of his work was the belief that we can all be artists.
Ballots open today for the Scottish leadership election. Anas Sarwar represents the failures of the Labour establishment — while Monica Lennon offers a roadmap to a democratic socialist future.
As the climate crisis worsens, Labour must be at the forefront of the fight for a radical Green New Deal – one that meets the challenge of our time by transitioning from carbon while empowering workers.
Britain has one of the worst rates of sick pay in Europe at just £95.85 per week. It leaves workers with a stark choice – go in sick during a pandemic, or stay home and face poverty.
The Overseas Operations Bill effectively decriminalises torture abroad. It’s been labelled a political reaction to a series of legal claims – but its real motivation is thoroughly ideological.
The GameStop short squeeze raised questions about Wall Street reform – but the conversation it should have started was whether stock market speculation should direct investment in our economy at all.
For Keir Starmer, scrapping the Community Organising Unit and attacking party democracy are part of a single project: to turn Labour back into a party of the establishment.
In north Manchester, nearly 500 Go North West bus drivers are balloting for strike action over ‘fire and rehire’ proposals which would force them to accept longer hours and pay cuts – or face the sack.
Sweden’s welfare state imagined a ‘Folkhemmet,’ or People’s Home, which is now being dismantled – but individual stories help us to remember what social democracy meant to the generation that built it.
In the middle of a pandemic, Royal Mail are threatening to close a nursery that cares mainly for the children of postal workers – making them choose between a £1,000-per-month hike in costs or unemployment.
North Ayrshire’s council is undertaking a bold experiment in municipal socialism – pursuing transformative policies on housing, the environment and workers’ rights which point the way towards a different kind of local government.
Britain is going through both an identity crisis and a process of political disintegration – both of which can trace their roots to the great national project of recent decades: neoliberal reform.
The launch of the National Health Service was accompanied by ‘Your Very Good Health’ – a witty, clever and progressive public information film that helped to win support for socialised medicine.
Artificial intelligence is being deployed at an increasingly rapid rate by corporate managers. Instead of vague conversations about its ethics, we need to be talking about how workers can use it too.
Last year, the government made home-use abortion pills available to all. It’s now considering going back to clinic appointments – despite the time, money, and stress that at-home pills save.
Radical post-colonial leaders like Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere didn’t just want independence — they wanted to break the political and economic order that kept the Global South in subjugation.
Patrick Keiller’s classic 1994 film ‘London’ combines a left-wing critique of the development of Britain’s capital with an ambitious aesthetic – but more than 25 years later, even its version of the city seems utopian.