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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Truss has been prime minister for just four short weeks, and she’s already got the Tory Party tearing new chunks out of itself – which might be great, if they weren’t dragging the rest of us down with them.
In the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, Lula triumphed. But the threat of a Bolsonaro victory to the world is clear – and must be passionately fought in the upcoming run-off.
The NHS is the pride of Britain, but the last decade has seen pay for nurses fall dramatically and food banks set up in hospitals. It’s a disgraceful situation that can’t be tolerated any longer.
The Tories are reportedly considering slashing benefits to fund their bankers’ budget. It’s sickening proof of just how deep their cruelty runs.
Friday’s budget might have caused more chaos than Truss and Kwarteng foresaw, but they always hoped to open the door to more spending cuts and sell-offs – and in that respect, things are right on course.
More than 500 dock workers in Liverpool are out on strike against a real-terms pay cut from a company turning over millions – and proving the power of industrial action and solidarity to build a better world.
On this week’s podcast, Grace speaks to Ben Tarnoff, author of Internet for the People. They discuss the history of the web’s enclosure and privatisation – and how we could build a different model for the future.
In a town consistently misrepresented as a hub of religious and racial tension, Luton’s Enough is Enough rally was a clear reminder that what working class people have in common is so much more than what divides us.
This year’s conference has shown Labour at last willing to intervene in a failing private energy system, but still not ready to do what the scale of this crisis really demands: getting rid of that system altogether.
This weekend’s Italian election brought victory for Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Fratelli d’Italia, with record low turnout – the result of the decades-long collapse of Italy’s political horizons.
In the 1980s, a group of radical economists, planners, and activists in the GLC set out to transform London’s economy in the interest of its working class – with achievements and limitations we can learn from today.
Universal Credit is already a disaster – and while millions worry about putting food on the table, the government has decided now’s the time to make the cruel system even crueller.
Yesterday was a chance for the government to take real action on the cost of living crisis: proper pay rises, a windfall tax on energy giants, a rent freeze. They chose not to take it – so on 1 October, we take to the streets.
University bosses have spent the last decade attacking pay and pensions and stripping bare the conditions that once formed the basis of a career in higher education. Now, members of UCU are rising to take back what is theirs.
Tax is about political choices. At the worst possible time, our government just made all the wrong ones.
Today’s budget was an unashamed handout to the rich. Workers aren’t going to take it lying down, and everyone seems to know it – except the government.
Today’s move by Royal Mail to rip up agreements with the CWU is the biggest attack on workers in a generation. If it isn’t fought, we could see the derecognition of a strong union and the fragmentation of our postal service.
As a state bureaucracy, the Treasury is too controlling, conservative and elitist. Liz Truss’s attacks on it won’t make it work for ordinary people – but she’s right that change is needed, writes an anonymous civil servant.
Apsana Begum returns to work today. Her treatment is a nauseating example of the Labour leadership’s willingness to abandon Muslim women and domestic abuse survivors if they don’t have the right political friends.
Named for a colonial leader and built under the same deregulatory drive imposed on newly independent nations, the Grenfell Tower fire wasn’t solely a disaster of the present – it was proof of empire’s long and continuing shadow.