The Ancient Roots of Trespass
The Tory government’s plan to make trespass a criminal offence is part of a centuries-old tradition: using the law to protect wealthy landowners at the expense of our right to roam.
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Miriam Pensack
Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
The Covid Class War
The global pandemic has pushed between 200 and 500 million people into extreme poverty, while the richest have added $3.9 trillion to their fortunes. Covid-19 is not a crisis impacting us all equally – it’s a class war.
The Department for Deloitte
Tory peer James Bethell once helped Deloitte get government contracts as a private lobbyist. Now, as a health minister, he has overseen a test and trace system which employs 1,127 of their consultants.
Remembering Howard Zinn
On the anniversary of Howard Zinn’s death, we recall his life as a radical public intellectual – and his contributions to building a people’s history.
Renewing the Struggle Against the Far-Right on Holocaust Memorial Day
Today’s far-right mocks the Holocaust to minimise its horrors. In remembering its victims, our task is to reveal how racist ideologies made it possible – and why solidarity is the most powerful form of resistance.
22. No Holding Back: An Interview with Ian Lavery and Laura Smith
In this week’s A World to Win, Grace speaks to former Labour Chair Ian Lavery MP and former MP Laura Smith about the party, the impact of Brexit, and the future of the Left after the pandemic.
Britain’s ‘Herd Immunity’ Disaster Was Neoliberalism in Action
As Britain passes 100,000 deaths, Boris Johnson says his government did everything it could. But make no mistake: the Covid catastrophe is a consequence of putting profits before public health.
Bill Douglas and His Folk
Scottish director Bill Douglas made compelling cinema about his upbringing in a mining village and the Tolpuddle martyrs – but in the decades since his death, it has become far harder to be a working-class filmmaker.
48 Hours Is Already Too Much
Yesterday’s debate on the EU Working Time Directive confirmed the Tories’ hostility to even the most basic of workers’ rights – but it also proved that the Left needs to demand something better than the status quo.
Angela Davis: ‘Their Democracy and Ours’
On Angela Davis’ birthday, we republish her interview with filmmaker Astra Taylor on economic democracy, criminal justice, and the need for a socialist internationalism.
Covid-19 Is Widening Britain’s Economic Inequality
One in five people have gone further into debt during Covid-19, while the richest use their assets to insulate themselves against losses – the end result is economic inequality on steroids.
The Gap in Sleep Equality
Sleep is crucial to mental and physical health. As the pandemic has made clear, it’s also a scarce resource — one of which key workers are increasingly deprived, with dire consequences.
No Going Back to ‘Normal’
As vaccination numbers rise, politicians are preaching an imminent return to normal life — but for the millions living in poverty across the country, normal has long been unbearable.
Teachers Are Not Disposable
The government has claimed for months that schools are not hubs of infection, but new data proves their lie: and shows that education workers have double the Covid rate of the wider population.
Nationalise the Bogs
The degradation of Britain’s bogs through drainage means that they currently emit as much CO2 as 140,000 cars every year. These natural wonders shouldn’t be exploited for private gain, but protected in the common interest.
Home Rule for London
In the interwar years, the Labour Party used London as an example to the country of what a socialist government could provide – and how to wrest housing from the grip of slum landlords.
Why Anti-Racism Must be Anti-Capitalist
There have been many attempts to put a ‘humane’ face on capitalism, but it is a system built on oppression. Racism isn’t a glitch, it’s a feature – both of capitalism’s history and its present.
The Self-Pitying Psyche of Landlords
A recently published ‘secret diary’ provides a rare glimpse into the resentment Britain’s landlords feel towards their tenants – even as many rake in huge profits by charging obscene levels of rent.
Class Struggle on Film
This Saturday, the London Short Film Festival screens ‘Finally Got the News’ and ‘Class of Struggle,’ films which capture workers fighting against capitalism and racism in the tumults of the 1960s.
How Neoliberalism Created a Society of Individuals
Decades of neoliberal policies have reshaped our world – but perhaps their deepest impact has been to corrode the bonds which underpinned society: replacing the collective with the individual.