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Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The media continues to treat Israelis and Palestinians as equal participants in a conflict, but events in Sheikh Jarrah expose the reality – what we’re seeing is a battle between coloniser and colonised.
The government has claimed to stand against fire and rehire practices, which threaten 1 in 10 workers across Britain – but these words will ring hollow unless they take action in today’s Queen’s Speech.
J. D. Bernal, a Marxist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography, was born on this day in 1901 – his works inspired a litany of fiction writers, and showed how science could build a world for the working class.
Starmer’s response to last week’s election disaster has been to push further rightwards in messaging and personnel – a move that will make it even harder for Labour to articulate a progressive alternative.