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Rae Hart

Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.

Solidarity Against the Law

The Met Police lied about disorder at Saturday’s Palestine rally to justify mass arrests and intimidate sitting MPs — the culmination of a long campaign to drive Palestine solidarity off the streets.

The New Property Feudalism

After being taught that education and work was the path to ‘getting on’, millennials have learnt the hard way that the vast wealth being inherited by the children of property-owning parents is far more important than any idea of social mobility.

Cold Homes Kill

Energy companies and slum landlords are banking hundreds of billions while hospitals fill up with people made sick by cold, mouldy homes — a public health crisis caused by total greed.

A Victory for the Miners

Successive governments denied former miners their full pensions, condemning thousands to further hardship after the decimation of their communities. Now, at last, Labour is correcting this historic injustice.

Going Back to Class

The Workers’ Party of Belgium is defying the trend of leftist movements losing touch with the working class by using community organising to build a Marxist party with mass appeal.

Exhibiting Emo!

A new fan-produced Barbican exhibition showcases the dramatic mid-2000s emo subculture. But does its focus narrow, rather than illuminate, a still ongoing cultural phenomenon?

The Students Can Beat Apartheid Again

The movement to defend 7 LSE students suspended for pro-Palestine activism can take inspiration from the 1960s, when a wave of protests and occupations defeated the university’s attempt to crush opposition to white supremacist Rhodesia.

Making the Super-Rich Pay

Under the leadership of Brazil’s socialist president, the G20 has made a historic agreement to tax the world’s super-rich — now it’s time to make that deal a reality.

Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu

If Benjamin Netanyahu sets foot on British soil, the authorities have an indisputable obligation to arrest him — a failure to do so risks turning Britain into a rogue state, open for mass murderers fleeing justice.