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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Before Covid-19, the Tories promised to ‘level up’ Britain’s post-industrial regions – but new research shows they have been hammered by the pandemic and government support has been thin on the ground.
Capitalism’s greatest myth is that it is a democratic system. While the rich dominate our parliament, fund our parties and own our newspapers, real democracy is impossible.
Socialist historian C. L. R. James was born 121 years ago today. His landmark text ‘The Black Jacobins’ remains the authority on Haiti’s slave revolution and one of the greatest radical histories of all time.
James Larkin, leader of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, died on this day in 1947. An exceptional orator and Ireland’s most influential trade unionist, he came from what Marx once called “the great heart of the proletariat.”
The Reddit-fuelled GameStop short squeeze isn’t a threat to capitalism, because the rich can’t be beaten at their own game – but it does show the power of collective action to expose corrupt systems.
This week, a 1,400-worker strike in Hunts Point, New York won an immediate raise with no concessions. It’s a sign that the US labour movement is beginning to reclaim its militant roots.
Around the world, politicians herald the growth of renewable energy – but the bitter reality is that green capitalism is failing to overcome fossil fuels. To save the planet, we need a break from the market.
The rallying cry to ‘build more housing’ has gained momentum across the political spectrum – but solving the housing crisis is about affordability and access, not supply. We need housing for public good, not private profit.
As the British Gas strike returns to the picket, we speak to the workers involved – about the threat to their family lives, bullying ‘fire and rehire’ tactics, and how one company’s celebration of key workers rang hollow.
The Tory government’s plan to make trespass a criminal offence is part of a centuries-old tradition: using the law to protect wealthy landowners at the expense of our right to roam.
The global pandemic has pushed between 200 and 500 million people into extreme poverty, while the richest have added $3.9 trillion to their fortunes. Covid-19 is not a crisis impacting us all equally – it’s a class war.
Tory peer James Bethell once helped Deloitte get government contracts as a private lobbyist. Now, as a health minister, he has overseen a test and trace system which employs 1,127 of their consultants.
On the anniversary of Howard Zinn’s death, we recall his life as a radical public intellectual – and his contributions to building a people’s history.
Today’s far-right mocks the Holocaust to minimise its horrors. In remembering its victims, our task is to reveal how racist ideologies made it possible – and why solidarity is the most powerful form of resistance.
In this week’s A World to Win, Grace speaks to former Labour Chair Ian Lavery MP and former MP Laura Smith about the party, the impact of Brexit, and the future of the Left after the pandemic.
As Britain passes 100,000 deaths, Boris Johnson says his government did everything it could. But make no mistake: the Covid catastrophe is a consequence of putting profits before public health.
Scottish director Bill Douglas made compelling cinema about his upbringing in a mining village and the Tolpuddle martyrs – but in the decades since his death, it has become far harder to be a working-class filmmaker.
Yesterday’s debate on the EU Working Time Directive confirmed the Tories’ hostility to even the most basic of workers’ rights – but it also proved that the Left needs to demand something better than the status quo.
On Angela Davis’ birthday, we republish her interview with filmmaker Astra Taylor on economic democracy, criminal justice, and the need for a socialist internationalism.
One in five people have gone further into debt during Covid-19, while the richest use their assets to insulate themselves against losses – the end result is economic inequality on steroids.