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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
After the 2019 election, Labour was mocked for supporting free, public and high-quality broadband – but as millions struggle without full fibre through lockdown, the idea has never looked better.
Founded in Sweden, Klarna is a bank that has spread like a pink rash over the fashion industry – but its ‘buy now, pay later’ approach is digging a cash-strapped generation deeper into personal debt.
The pandemic has seen unemployment explode among young graduates, and no amount of polishing CVs will solve the crisis – the only path to decent work for this generation is political and economic change.
In a special International Women’s Day episode of A World to Win, Grace speaks to academic and author and Kristen Ghodsee about the failures of liberal feminism, and about how socialism can help us build happier, healthier relationships.
A serious crisis is always a good time for short, sharp, and prophetic pamphlets. The Covid-19 disaster has especially spurred works dealing both with how the crisis has unfolded, and ways activists can survive it.
A new book on modern architecture and climate researches the passive cooling strategies that immediately preceded the age of air-conditioning. In the age of accelerating climate change, can we learn anything from them?
The Design Museum’s show Electronic showcases how a once-revolutionary music has become bourgeois and clichéd, but contains scattered hints at what was once possible.
While the government meandered in mixed messaging, misconduct, and mistakes, trade unions have consistently called the pandemic correctly — but have been ignored.
The centre is back. But it still hasn’t got any answers.
Even before the pandemic hit, health workers warned that hospitals were struggling to cope. Now, as they fight through one of the darkest periods in living memory, those at the frontline are increasingly angry at the government’s failures.
The NHS crisis didn’t begin with Covid-19 — years of outsourcing, competitiveness reforms, and obsessions over ‘efficiency’ have decimated the public health service.
Newly-elected NEC member Nadia Jama on the battle ahead for the Labour left in 2021.
Ripped-off students are engaged in the largest rent strike in decades — but that’s only the beginning. The only way to bring about real change is to stop the marketisation of higher education.
In the 1960s, the Labour left organised around Tribune and tried to build itself into a parliamentary vehicle for socialism.
Joelle M. Abi-Rached’s new book uses a single psychiatric hospital to tell both the history of psychiatry and the history of modern Lebanon.
Hollie Cameron, a socialist standing for Glasgow Kelvin, has been removed as a Labour candidate after comments about Indyref2 – it’s yet another sign that the party is clamping down on dissent.
The culture war over history isn’t the only battle in Britain’s museums, there’s a fight over job security too – and at the V&A, the latest institution to plan layoffs, the two issues are joined at the hip.
Momentum’s new strategy lays out where our movement goes next – from organising in communities, workplaces and trade unions, to winning positions within the Labour Party – in order to build a socialist future.
Elected on a promise to modernise France, Emmanuel Macron has revealed what the political centre looks like in practice – a war on workers, authoritarian demagogy and a further emboldening of the far-right.
Labour’s London region seized control of last week’s Streatham party AGM from local elected leadership. The result was chaos – candidates locked out, ballots not arriving and many members losing trust in the party altogether.