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Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
In the 1970s, the Writers’ Action Group campaigned for writers to receive royalties from library loans. Their campaign resulted in Public Lending Right – and is a model to follow in the fight for arts funding.
The sugary pop of 1985’s ‘Our Favourite Shop’ by Paul Weller’s The Style Council carried a brutal critique of the fantasies and realities of Thatcherism in the South of England during the tumultuous 1980s.
At the height of the post-Stalin ‘thaw,’ a self-organised group of young British travellers took a bus all the way to the Soviet Union – one of many innovative attempts to dissolve the boundaries of the Cold War.
In the 1970s, 24 construction workers were convicted for their role in a successful strike – the story behind their vindication this week reveals the degree to which the state wages war against the working class.
Today’s announcement by Alex Salmond has exposed further cracks in the SNP ahead of the Scottish parliamentary elections – but the real drama of the battle over independence is yet to come.
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the war in Yemen, the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster which has left 250,000 dead and millions facing starvation – all of it made possible by British government support.
In Finland, high-quality free school meals are provided to all children between six and sixteen as a public service – instead of handing over cash to rip-off profiteers, Britain should follow its lead.
The Royals’ finances, like their powers, are opaque, vague, and poorly understood, but they still receive immense state subsidies – it’s time to properly nationalise their lands.
Today, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham announced that the region’s buses will be brought back into public control – it’s a victory for campaigners and a model the whole country should follow.
Allegations of corruption in the Caller Report are grim, but Labour’s failure to oppose the takeover of Liverpool by an equally corrupt Tory government threatens to plunge a left-wing heartland into years of right-wing policies.
Years of central government cutbacks combined with the fallout from Covid have left councils across the country in crisis – with 25 on the brink of bankruptcy and many more unable to provide basic services.
While bailiff evictions remain formally paused, eviction hearings are going ahead – and with rising numbers of people unemployed, claiming Universal Credit, and slipping into arrears, thousands face losing their homes.
In the early weeks of lockdown, mutual aid groups sprang up to support those in need during the pandemic – but many fizzled out, and those that remain will only survive if committed to transformative politics.
After a year of corruption, delay, and denial, the government can’t be trusted to hold itself accountable for Britain’s extraordinary Covid death toll – so campaigners, workers and bereaved families are doing it instead.
On William Morris’ birthday, we republish his lecture on the decorative arts – in which he laid out his vision of art created by and for the people, and the post-capitalist world that would make it possible.
Berlin mural ‘The Press as Organiser,’ hidden for 30 years, is about to be unveiled to the public after restoration – and its message about the role of the media for radical politics has lost none of its resonance.
This week, Grace talks to Shami Chakrabarti – barrister, human rights campaigner, and former Shadow Attorney General under Jeremy Corbyn – about the Police Crackdown Bill and the wider Tory assault on civil liberties.
Today’s unemployment numbers are the highest in five years, with almost 700,000 jobs lost during the pandemic and 1.7 million out of work. It is an avoidable crisis – and young workers are bearing the brunt.
Today, the government is calling for a national day of reflection. But it is ministers who need to reflect – on the vital work done by workers to keep society going, and on the need for a proper public sector pay rise.
A year of being stuck inside has exposed Britain’s housing nightmare – Europe’s smallest average home sizes, sky-high costs and dismally low standards. If we want better, we’re going to have to fight the landlord class.