The Gap in Sleep Equality
Sleep is crucial to mental and physical health. As the pandemic has made clear, it’s also a scarce resource — one of which key workers are increasingly deprived, with dire consequences.
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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
No Going Back to ‘Normal’
As vaccination numbers rise, politicians are preaching an imminent return to normal life — but for the millions living in poverty across the country, normal has long been unbearable.
Teachers Are Not Disposable
The government has claimed for months that schools are not hubs of infection, but new data proves their lie: and shows that education workers have double the Covid rate of the wider population.
Nationalise the Bogs
The degradation of Britain’s bogs through drainage means that they currently emit as much CO2 as 140,000 cars every year. These natural wonders shouldn’t be exploited for private gain, but protected in the common interest.
Home Rule for London
In the interwar years, the Labour Party used London as an example to the country of what a socialist government could provide – and how to wrest housing from the grip of slum landlords.
Why Anti-Racism Must be Anti-Capitalist
There have been many attempts to put a ‘humane’ face on capitalism, but it is a system built on oppression. Racism isn’t a glitch, it’s a feature – both of capitalism’s history and its present.
The Self-Pitying Psyche of Landlords
A recently published ‘secret diary’ provides a rare glimpse into the resentment Britain’s landlords feel towards their tenants – even as many rake in huge profits by charging obscene levels of rent.
Class Struggle on Film
This Saturday, the London Short Film Festival screens ‘Finally Got the News’ and ‘Class of Struggle,’ films which capture workers fighting against capitalism and racism in the tumults of the 1960s.
How Neoliberalism Created a Society of Individuals
Decades of neoliberal policies have reshaped our world – but perhaps their deepest impact has been to corrode the bonds which underpinned society: replacing the collective with the individual.
It’s Time to Ban the Bomb
Today, a historic UN Treaty comes into force making nuclear weapons illegal. New polling shows a clear majority of British people support nuclear disarmament – but our political class remains committed to annihilation.
The Enduring Lessons of Red Vienna
For almost two decades at the start of the twentieth century, Austria’s Social Democrats pursued a radical agenda of social progress in the country’s capital – even as dark clouds gathered around them.
21. Remembering Leo Panitch: A Conversation with Max Shanly and Sam Gindin
In this week’s special episode of A World to Win, Grace is joined by Max Shanly and Sam Gindin to reflect on the life of Marxist thinker and writer Leo Panitch.
It’s Time to Scrap Tuition Fees
Before Covid-19, high tuition fees already deterred working-class people from university. Now, the injustices students face are clear to everyone – and show why we must fight for a free education system.
Britain’s Historic Wave of Student Rent Strikes
Rent strikes are taking place right now in 55 of 140 UK universities. It’s the biggest nationwide tenant action in 40 years – and has potential to shift housing dynamics not just for students, but for renters everywhere.
Rishi Sunak Versus Reality
It was obvious from the start that Covid-19 would have longlasting impacts on the British economy, but Rishi Sunak has insisted on treating it as a temporary blip – and now fantasises about pulling support altogether.
A Universal Credit Uplift Is Not Enough – We Need a Living Income
This week, Parliament resisted the urge to make Universal Credit recipients more than £1,000 a year worse off in the midst of a pandemic – but the system still leaves millions at or below the poverty line.
The Tories Have Put the NHS Up For Sale
Yesterday, Conservative MPs voted against excluding the Health Service from future trade deals. After their performative support for NHS staff this year, the vote was nothing short of a betrayal.
Green Capitalism Is Not Enough
Joe Biden’s inauguration has been heralded as a victory for environmentalists – but his presidency will prove definitively that there are no moderate solutions to the climate crisis. A Green New Deal is our only hope.
The US Left in the Biden Era
DSA’s Carlos Ramirez-Rosa speaks to Tribune about the future of the growing socialist movement in the United States after Donald Trump – and how the Left should approach the Biden administration.
After Trump, Black Lives Still Matter
Last year’s Black Lives Matter protests produced a tenuous alliance between street radicals and multinational corporations. The defeat of Donald Trump marks the end of that road – but not of the cause.