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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Today’s court decision to overturn the convictions of 39 Post Office workers highlighted an enormous miscarriage of justice – now we need a criminal investigation into how post bosses ruined so many lives.
In the 20th century, Brick Lane’s migrant communities fought efforts by the far-right to drive them out. Now, amid plans for a shopping mall and rising rents, they face a different enemy: gentrification.
For a clique of Tory-aligned business figures, the pandemic hasn’t been a crisis – it’s been a golden opportunity to hoover up government contracts and make millions at the expense of the public.
New research from the US shows that, on top of being cruel, evictions increase Covid-19 transmission throughout the population – making it clear that extending eviction bans is a public health issue.
German football’s 50+1 model gives supporters a real say in their clubs and a better culture in the stands – if English fans want to be treated as more than consumers, it’s time to build a movement demanding the same.
A new survey from the bakers’ union shows that 1 in 5 food workers are in food poverty – wages in Britain are so low that the very people who produce our meals often can’t afford to eat.
Corporate interests want to divert the climate movement into individual solutions, but paper straws and low-energy light bulbs won’t save the planet – we need a movement to end the system that’s destroying it.
Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez wasn’t just a key player in the botched European Super League – he is also a voracious capitalist, profiteering from outsourcing and privatisation at the expense of the Spanish public.
Pensions now account for over 40% of all wealth in Britain, but pro-market reforms under Margaret Thatcher individualised the system – leaving what should be a vast store of public wealth in private hands.
After 20 years and an estimated 200,000 deaths, American and British troops are due to withdraw from Afghanistan this year – but the destruction, surveillance and prejudice the war created will endure for a long time yet.
In the latest episode of A World to Win, Grace Blakeley is joined by Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book ‘Planet on Fire’ – and how we can organise against climate disaster.
Nina Simone, who died on this day in 2003, is often remembered for her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement – but she was also a socialist who saw revolution as the path to true equality.
Often seen as an outlier in British politics, Enoch Powell was in fact deeply influential in the development of the Conservative Party – and laid the intellectual foundations for the Thatcherite project which followed him.
Unwilling to accept mismanagement under Mike Ashley or a Saudi takeover, Newcastle United fans are organising an alternative – a Supporters’ Trust which aims to buy part of the club when it next falls into crisis.
Today’s right-wingers cast free speech as a distinctly British value, but they have precious little to say about the history of the Empire – which mounted a brutal campaign to deny these rights to colonised peoples.
We can’t rely on the traditional institutions to save us from the European Super League. FIFA, UEFA and the Premier League have all failed football – it’s time for the fans to take ownership over the game again.
The European Super League is football’s equivalent of a luxury skyscraper – which is fitting, because the game’s super-wealthy owners are complicit in gentrifying the very communities which helped to build it.
The Greensill scandal isn’t a story about a few bad apples, it reveals how British capitalism works – politicians using state power to enrich private corporations while the public picks up the tab.
The European Super League would be a disaster for football, but it hasn’t come from nowhere – it is the end of a long road of commercialisation which has torn the game away from the working-class communities that built it.
When Tony Blair first became Labour leader, he saw mass membership as a way to drive the party rightwards – but in power it soon became clear that grassroots politics were incompatible with New Labour policies.