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Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
This week, Grace speaks to former Labour leader and current Shadow Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Ed Miliband about fighting inequality and climate crisis, and his new book, Go Big: How to Fix Our World.
On this day in 2005, police shot and killed Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell station – their attempt at a cover-up revealed the rot at the heart of Britain’s security establishment.
Last week, research showed that a million children of key workers live in poverty – the paltry 3% pay rise offered to NHS staff shows how little the government plans to do about it.
Fighting gentrification is a crucial to any hope of reclaiming our cities from capital, but doing it effectively will require setting out a working-class vision for renewal to rival pro-business regeneration projects.
Last month, a key witness against Julian Assange admitted that his testimony was false. It’s further proof that this case has little to do with justice – but is a persecution designed to silence critical journalists.
Most people have suffered through the pandemic, but the world’s richest have seen their wealth rise by a combined $5 trillion. No one needs to hoard that kind of money – it’s time to tax it for a fairer world.
This week marks the start of the summer holidays for kids across England and Wales. For too many, that means six weeks without enough food – a problem this government could solve, if it wanted to.
A new report exposes how privatised buses have cost people jobs and benefits, cut them off from schools and healthcare, and deepened isolation – it’s time to end the scandal and bring them into public ownership.
Socialist writer Dawn Foster passed away last week at the age of 34. She was a champion of the working class in a hostile media environment – and deeply committed to the fight for a better world.
From 2005 to 2017, New York lost over 425,000 flats with rents under $900 a month. Now, at the end of the Covid eviction ban, activists are fighting to save the city’s housing from the next wave of destruction.
The Tories have labelled today ‘Freedom Day,’ perpetuating the myth of their commitment to liberty – but their attacks on civil liberties and the means to live a decent life show how little they care about freedom.
The government claims its amnesty in Northern Ireland ‘draws a line’ under the Troubles, but in reality it is a barrier to justice for victims’ families – and an attack on the principles of reconciliation.
Deliveroo’s new partnership with Neighbourhood Watch offers riders training in how to spot crimes, to ‘keep communities safe’ – but the company’s treatment of its workers shows it couldn’t care less about community.
The renewed crises caused by mutating strains of Covid-19 are teaching the West an important lesson – the virus won’t stop at the shores of wealthy countries, and our response can’t either.
Amsterdam’s Vrij Beton or ‘Free Concrete’ project aims to build on the city’s history of squatting and easily available social housing with a collective ownership model for housing in the 21st century.
Politicians often preach that hard work will protect you from poverty and deliver personal fulfilment. But under capitalism, neither of those things are true – labour will only be meaningful if we organise.
For 60 years, Cuba has lived under siege from the most powerful nation on earth, denying it basics like food, medicine and building equipment – anyone who cares about economic hardship must call for it to end.
Throughout the pandemic, poor, minority and disabled people have been worst impacted by Covid and its fallout – the government knows many can’t just ‘learn to live with the virus,’ but it increasingly doesn’t care.
This week, Grace speaks to author and academic Linsey McGoey about how politicians exploit the difference between ignorance and deliberate misinformation, and why, if ‘knowledge is power’, ignorance can be too.
Last night, fan-owned Dublin club Bohemians progressed in Europe for the first time since 2008 – bringing a fundamentally different model of football to a continental game plagued by corporate profiteering.