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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Thousands of teachers at 77 sixth forms are out on strike today. After a 20% real-terms pay cut since 2010 and chronic underfunding, they’re not only fighting for themselves – they’re fighting for the future of our colleges.
More than half of known human infectious diseases can be aggravated by climate change. Apathetic political leaders aren’t just condemning us to extreme weather’s devastation – they’re condemning us to perpetual health crisis, too.
In the 1970s and 80s, Brazilian footballer Sócrates used his sport as a vehicle to challenge a military dictatorship and speak out for democracy. As this year’s tainted World Cup continues, it’s clear we need more like him.
‘Jerusalem’ is now most likely to be heard at jubilee celebrations or Last Night of the Proms – but its author William Blake was a radical who raged against a world split between privilege and poverty.
The last 20 years have seen Manchester become the poster city of neoliberal urbanism with a dressing of radical chic. It’s time to consider how we got here – and how we take it back from the developers.
By imposing a real-terms pay cut on workers in a cost of living crisis, the leadership at Shelter are exacerbating the very insecurities their housing charity exists to fight – so now, those workers are going on strike.
A recent survey found 95% of young people now feel lonely, with more than half citing money as a key factor. When everything’s expensive, and the public sphere has been deliberately decimated, it’s no surprise.
University staff are striking today against the same marketisation that cuts courses, hikes fees, and reduces students to cash cows. They’re not just fighting for themselves – they’re fighting for the future of higher education.
Reports of discussions about a two-tier NHS in Scotland only make explicit what’s been clear for a long time: that across the UK, our public health service is being stripped away – and we need to fight to restore it everywhere.
In 1982, thousands of nurses and NHS ancillary staff took action against the government over low pay – and were joined by miners, printers, firefighters and more in the biggest show of solidarity since the 1926 General Strike.
Bosses at the Jacob’s factory in Aintree, Liverpool tried to slap their employees with a pathetic 4% pay offer – so now, 750 workers have gone on indefinite strike to demand their worth.
Jeff Bezos’ pledge to donate his vast fortune to charity is a reputation-laundering exercise – and a reminder that billionaires will never fix the problems that create them.
Following 26 days of strikes, outsourced hospital workers at Lancashire and South Cumbria Trust won a 14% pay rise, an extra week of annual leave, and the same sick pay as their in-housed colleagues – a victory against the two-tier workforce.
Qatar’s World Cup is the culmination of decades of football capitalism – a victory for big corporations and repressive regimes, and a tragedy for the fans and workers who make the game.
Elon Musk’s inadvertent mercy killing of Twitter raises again the question – why don’t we have a social media of our own?
By hitting workers with historic tax increases while leaving wealth untouched, Jeremy Hunt has ensured that the rich will remain insulated from the cost of living catastrophe.
Suella Braverman’s “dream” of deporting refugees to Rwanda is barbaric and will fail to deter small boat crossings. We need a safe passage scheme to save lives and treat asylum seekers humanely, writes Mark Serwotka.
David Cameron’s Tories pushed charity and volunteering to plug the gaps left by their vicious austerity assault. With a resurgence of cuts, we might see the same rhetoric reheated – the problem is that no-one has anything left to give.
Yesterday, a coroner ruled that 2-year-old Awaab Ishak died as a result of prolonged exposure to mould. The tragedy exposes the lethal consequences of Britain’s slum housing.
Rishi Sunak claims to be committed to securing the release of British national Alaa Abd-El-Fattah from prison, but the UK government’s support for Egypt’s regime enables the mass incarceration of political activists.