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Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
UK household debt has increased by 66% since May. It’s already a crisis for millions and will be for many more as ‘frozen’ pandemic payments thaw out – but the government refuses to act.
This week the Tories will outline their recovery plan: a more muscular state which intervenes on behalf of the wealthy. Labour needs a response that focuses on working people – but is sorely lacking it.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to extend the stamp duty holiday in Wednesday’s Budget, propping up an economy that relies on ballooning property prices – and locking in the housing crisis for years to come.
Referrals for far-right terror offences have risen markedly among young people during Covid. The phenomenon is fuelled by growing online subcultures – many of which thrive on anti-Muslim vitriol.
In the wake of Covid-19, Goldsmiths management are forcing through job cuts worth £6 million and a vast increase in workloads – but staff are fighting back against the latest neoliberal reforms to higher education.
Tax fraud costs the UK more than ten times as much as benefits fraud but is hardly ever prosecuted – it’s all part of a right-wing scam to divert your attention from who really cheats the British public.
‘Our Friends in the North’ turns 25 this year. The show dealt with the institutions of British society with a rare honesty, and opened the eyes of many to the ongoing symbiosis between politicians, the police, and the press.
Dictator Augusto Pinochet’s influence lingers in Chile’s politics through widespread inequality and the impunity of its security forces – but today, there is a growing movement to bury his legacy.
Labour’s opposition to tax increases for major corporations isn’t popular or even good economics – but it is a signal that the days when the party challenged big business interests are over.
‘The personal is political’ originated as a crucial feminist insight into the politics of daily life – but in recent years, the slogan has morphed into an excuse for reducing politics to the individual and the moral.
While liberals swoon and right-wingers predict the end of days, there’s little to suggest Joe Biden’s presidency will be transformative – for better or worse, its early weeks look very much like a new Obama era.
Rather than giving money to middle-class savers, the Left could push a programme of regional recovery bonds to help the areas cheated by the London finance bubble – before the Tories take renewal for themselves.
Thirty years ago, Tony Benn’s Commonwealth of Britain Bill proposed to transform our democracy by devolving power, guaranteeing social rights and abolishing the monarchy — it’s time for today’s Left to take up its mantle.
Newham’s Labour council is leading one of London’s most creative responses to Covid-19 – pursuing Community Wealth Building, living wage jobs and free school meals even amidst a wave of Tory cutbacks.
Thirty years ago, Tony Benn’s Commonwealth of Britain Bill proposed to transform our democracy by devolving power, guaranteeing social rights and abolishing the monarchy – it’s time for today’s Left to take up its mantle.
Universal Credit claims have doubled since the pandemic – and a £20 increase is nowhere near enough. Six million people are now stuck in a bureaucratic maze of five-week waits, low payments and benefit sanctions.
The number of prisoners held without trial has increased by one third under Covid. New rules mean that some are in custody for up to eight months – and detainees are pleading guilty just to get released sooner.
Mental health is often framed in individual terms with individual solutions – but rising levels of depression, anxiety and stress across society make it clear that we need political answers.
In this week’s episode, Grace talks to journalist and author Sarah Jaffe about Joe Biden’s first weeks, Covid and climate crisis in the US, and how the pandemic is changing the world of work.
Matt Hancock broke the law over outsourced PPE contracts, but the problem goes well beyond Covid – in fact, almost half of the UK’s top 50 corporations have connections with a current MP.