Spain’s Left-Wing Coalition
After months of refusal, Spain’s PSOE has finally agreed to a left-wing coalition with Unidas Podemos. Now the hard work of defining its programme begins.
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Miriam Pensack
Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
Debunking the Grenfell Lies
This week Liberal Democrat Sam Gyimah claimed that Labour MP Emma Dent Coad was partly responsible for the Grenfell tragedy – here, she debunks his allegation and calls on him to apologise for the smear.
Royal Mail’s Establishment Stitch-up
Yesterday, the votes of 110,000 postal workers to strike were thrown out by the High Court. It was just another example of how Britain’s laws and courts are rigged against workers.
The British Leyland Concerto
Stuart Whipps’ exhibition about the 1970s British car industry reconstructs the trappings of post-war working class life, and offers ideas of how to go beyond it.
Bolivia’s Far-Right Coup
In Bolivia, the military, police and right-wing extremists have carried out a coup against the elected government. They intend to remain in power by violently suppressing the country’s indigenous and poor.
System Change, Not Climate Change
A Green New Deal requires nothing less than bringing the globalised financial system under the authority of nation states, argues Ann Pettifor.
The Bauhaus at 100
A flurry of works on the centenary of the Bauhaus have explored its legacy – but too many of them echo the conservative ideas the school was founded to fight against.
The Tories’ War on the NHS
The Tories have despised the public ethos of the NHS since it was founded. In power, they have privatised its services any chance they could – often making handsome profits in the process.
Austerity’s Little Helpers
The Lib Dems want to reduce this election to Brexit because their record in government – including Jo Swinson’s time as minister – helped to deepen many of Britain’s worst injustices.
Winning the Online War
Viral online campaigning – from videos to memes – is likely to play a larger role in this election than any other. That could be to Labour’s benefit.
Britain’s Working Time Crisis
Britain’s workers now work longer than any others in the EU, as a century’s worth of progress on working hours unravels. The only way to reverse the trend is to strengthen workers’ rights.
Comrades at War
After the First World War, thousands of veterans returned from the front lines and fought for their rights against an establishment that was happy to discard them.
It’s Time to Transform Britain’s Economy
We shouldn’t be scared of attacks in the Tory press – Britain needs a government prepared to invest in its future, and Labour has the boldest plan to transform the economy in a generation.
Clichés of the Golden Age
The notion of the ‘Russian writer’ in touch with the ‘Russian soul’ was a masterstroke of national propaganda. Why has it persisted so long, and who finds it useful?
Gambling Spain’s Future
By rejecting a left-wing coalition to placate business interests, Spain’s PSOE has badly miscalculated ahead of today’s election – and may hand the far-right a historic victory.
Privatisation is Already Killing the NHS
The NHS isn’t under threat of privatisation, it’s already being privatised – with billions of pounds of contracts sold off every year. Another Tory government could be its final straw.
Lula Livre
An activist from the Brazilian Workers’ Party on the significance of Lula’s release, the movement that made it possible and the continuing fight against the Bolsonaro regime.
There are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)
The Apollo landings, however much they were driven by militarism, brought about a wave of cosmic dreaming, where people on earth dreamed of new possible worlds.
The Psychedelic Left
Mark Sinker’s anthology ‘A Hidden Landscape Once A Week’ charts the emergence of the British music press out of the New Left of the 1960s, and its decline in the 1980s during Thatcherism.
Why the Four-Day Week Matters
Labour’s plan to introduce a four-day week isn’t just a necessary fix to a broken economy – it signals a renewed commitment to a decades-long class struggle over working time.