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Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
As we mark the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, the continuing inequalities and racial injustices of the East London communities that were its battlefield are a reminder of its enduring lessons.
In this week’s episode of A World to Win, Grace Blakeley speaks to former South African minister Rob Davies about his time in government, the challenge of Covid-19 in Africa and how to break the continent’s enforced underdevelopment.
This week, Boris Johnson said it was time for the state to “stand back and let the private sector get on with it.” But that is exactly what Britain has done for 40 years – and it has led to disaster.
This week, Rishi Sunak created a storm when he suggested arts workers find other jobs – but the comment wasn’t just a slip, it was reflective of a government that is overseeing the slow death of Britain’s culture sector.
As Caledonian Sleeper train staff become the latest outsourced workers to go on strike against Serco, we look at its role in a vast operation of converting public services into private profits.
Rishi Sunak’s latest plan to train the unemployed for jobs that don’t exist reveals the government’s new strategy: after blaming the public for the Covid crisis, they plan to blame us for the jobs crisis too.
As an Opposition, Labour must not allow the Tories get away with attacking civil liberties and democratic rights – that’s why I voted against the Spy Cops Bill.
After five years of deliberation, sentence will be handed down tomorrow in the trial of Greek fascist organisation Golden Dawn – one of the most important anti-fascist legal cases since Nuremberg.
Last night – with a handful of honourable exceptions – the Labour Party abstained on the Spy Cops Bill. Dave Smith, a blacklisted worker and victim of spying, explains why the vote was a betrayal of the labour movement.
Today Rishi Sunak told Tory conference that he “can’t protect every job.” But as Britain faces an unemployment crisis, there are thousands of jobs he could save and create – and is choosing not to.
By abstaining on today’s Spy Cops Bill, Labour is giving the green light for the police and MI5 to infiltrate our trade unions and social movements – it is a scandal that should appal party activists.
By ending the furlough scheme without a proper alternative in the midst of a deep recession, the government is putting millions of jobs at risk – it needs to listen to demands for action before it’s too late.
Max Levitas, who passed away in 2018, was part of the generation of Jewish radicals who organised the resistance to Mosley in Cable Street. On its anniversary, we remember his remarkable life.
Max Levitas, who passed away in 2018, was part of the generation of Jewish radicals who organised the resistance to Mosley in Cable Street. On its anniversary, we remember his remarkable life.
The arts and media are all too often dominated by the vengeful outsider – but we should be aspiring to rise with our class, not out of it.
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky’s autobiography, ‘Hell is Round the Corner,’ is a powerful statement of working class creativity – and all the forces that are ranged against it.
Privatised test and trace has been a disaster, with thousands unable to access tests and enormous delays for those who do. Now, a poll shows that 74% of the public want it brought back in-house.
By undermining the public funding base of our universities and turning students into consumers, successive governments lay the foundations for the Covid crisis – but it’s young people who pay the costs.
With a new wave of lockdowns slowing economic activity, the government’s Jobs Support Scheme is nowhere near enough to save jobs. Without further action, Britain is heading for a deep unemployment crisis.
In 1922, Shapurji Saklatvala was elected as Labour’s first MP of colour. He was a fighter against colonialism and war – and for an international socialism that could unite the world’s working-class.