The NHS Was Always Radical

Aneurin Bevan left this magazine for the Ministry of Health with a mission: to build an oasis of socialist principles within British capitalism.

Palestine Solidarity Is Not a Crime

Today, MPs will vote on a government bill to ban boycotts of Israel – authoritarian legislation that uses opposing anti-semitism as cover to attack Palestine solidarity and remove our political freedoms.

Jeremy Corbyn: LGBT Rights Are Refugee Rights – Let’s Stand Up for Both

The government’s latest attack on refugees would criminalise people fleeing persecution because of their sexuality or gender identity. Discrimination knows no borders – and neither should our solidarity.

Striking Against the Housing Crisis

Croydon Council plans huge cuts to its Housing Advice and Homelessness Department in the middle of a housing crisis. In response, staff have gone on strike to protect their jobs – and save a vital public service.

Labour’s Haringey Stitch-Up

Labour suspended its own rules to bar popular socialist candidates from standing in yesterday’s election in Haringey. Members of its Local Campaign Forum explain why they have resigned following this latest attack on democracy.

Tish Murtha’s Art of the Excluded

A new film celebrates photographer Tish Murtha, who intimately captured life on the margins during Thatcherism’s rise – and demonstrated art’s potential to undermine the powerful.

The Fight for Justice in Brazil is International

Lula’s demands for climate action and diplomacy over war have provoked reactionaries at home and ruffled feathers in the West. These ominous attacks are a warning of the dangers if progressives fail to back him.

Remembering Stonewall

The Stonewall riots began on this day in 1969. The gay liberation movement they created shows how radical politics can change the world.

The Fight for the Future of Higher Education

After years of pay cuts, pension attacks and precarity, university staff have escalated their industrial action with a marking and assessment boycott. But management refuses to listen, deducting staff pay and jeopardising student graduations instead.

Making Workers Pay for the Cost of Living Crisis

The Bank of England’s decision to hike interest rates is part of a plan to make workers pay for the cost of living crisis by driving up unemployment and driving down wages.

Ireland’s Neutrality Stitch-Up

A city councillor who was expelled from Ireland’s forum on neutrality explains how the format was skewed to pro-war views – and why a citizens’ assembly should be held in its place.

Sunak vs Starmer Is a Return to the Broken Status Quo

The political demise of Johnson, Corbyn and Sturgeon represents the restoration of the British establishment after years of populist challenge – but the crises that created them are as urgent as ever.

Climate Finance Exposes the West’s Debt Hypocrisy

The proposal from today’s Paris finance summit to tackle the climate crisis through more loans to indebted countries will only harm the Global South – exposing the reality of an economic system built to suit the West.

President Higgins Is Right – Ireland Should Defend its Neutrality

Today’s slanted ‘Security Forum’ is the latest in a long-running effort to water down Ireland’s historic neutrality – it must be opposed by anyone committed to peace and diplomacy.

The Prophet of Corporate Globalisation

In the 1930s, a little-known economist proposed a new global system to expand the power of capitalism by restricting the rights of ordinary people – and inspired the corporate overthrow of democracy.

Right of Reply

Labour Is Turning its Back on Britain’s Childcare Crisis

The cost of childcare has priced 1.3 million mothers out of work. Labour’s U-turn on universal free childcare isn’t ‘fiscally responsible’. The truth is that the crisis is too expensive not to fix.

The Boycott Ban Is a Threat to Democracy

The government’s anti-boycott bill is an attack on our political freedoms – and while it currently targets solidarity with Palestine, its ramifications apply to every social justice campaign.

Labour’s Love Affair with Private Healthcare 

From the embrace of private hospitals to shady donations from private health interests, there is little to suggest that today’s Labour leadership intends to defend Aneurin Bevan’s vision of a truly public NHS. 

Celebrating Ken Loach

For over six decades, Ken Loach – who turns 87 today – has made powerful, committed work that unmasks exploitation and highlights ordinary peoples’ struggles against injustice.