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Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
Amid the worst squeeze on living standards in decades, Keir Starmer’s Labour has a historic opportunity to transform this country – but yesterday’s speech shows he’s more concerned with staying in the establishment’s good books.
Despite the machismo that has beset the Left, solidarity and organising, from the Miners’ Strike to the Troubles, has often centred on the home.
The biggest-ever pilot of the four-day week proves that cutting working hours with no loss of pay makes us happier, healthier and more productive. Now it’s time for the trade union movement to fight for a shorter working week for all.
The Global South is enduring its worst debt crisis in decades. Unless there is immediate relief, any progress made on tackling extreme poverty risks being wiped out.
Two decades after it first aired, Phoenix Nights’ wry portrayal of a northern working men’s club remains a vital celebration of a vanishing working-class culture too often ignored on screen.
For decades, undercover police have given workers’ names to the employers’ blacklist if they demanded decent pay or safe conditions. Bringing this dark history to light is long overdue.
Energy giants are forcing people into poverty while destroying the planet, and they’ll keep doing so as long as it turns them a profit. Windfall taxes aren’t enough – we need to put power in public hands.
Government plans to have doctors prescribe things like heating and fresh food to patients only treat the symptoms of a bigger social ill: poverty.
With strong union backing, the legendary playwright Arnold Wesker fought to bring the arts into workplaces, canteens, and peoples’ daily lives out of a conviction that the labour movement must fight for both cultural and economic change.
Palestinian prisoners can be left in grim conditions in Israel’s prisons for years, without charge or trial – just one part of the repression they endure daily.
After the First World War, women’s football swelled in popularity and rallied behind the rising workers’ movement – until the establishment decided it was too radical, and took the legs from under it.
Laurent Mauvignier’s home invasion novel offers a compelling but flawed allegory for France’s far right problem.
During Covid, fossil fuel companies saw tanking oil prices as a sign to finally invest in renewables. Now they’re making bumper profits, they’re rolling back those initiatives – because for them, cash always comes before the planet.
Since 2009, the efforts of ministers and managers have seen real pay for university staff drop 25%, and insecurity, debt, and mental ill-health become rife. If we want the sector to change, we have to back the workers fighting back.
Rather than listening to the concerns of workers and students, more and more universities are responding by surveilling and trying to stop activism in their ranks.
Dublin writer Brendan Behan was born 100 years ago today. From his earliest days, his radical politics combined with a literary flair to make him one of the great working-class storytellers.
A new book shows how LGBT rights in Ireland were won not through EU rulings or state benevolence, but through generations of dedicated activism.
Two cops posing as activists have been unmasked in Spain, one after having sexual relationships with at least eight women – a frightening reminder of how far police go to spy on dissent.
Years of attacks on terms and conditions have pushed nurses to the brink. Now they’re striking not only for fair pay, but to protect the NHS for future generations.
The government’s authoritarian anti-protest laws aren’t only targeting peaceful political demonstrations – they’re being used to target journalists reporting on them, too.