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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Beaches are filled with sewage and leaks waste billions of litres of water a day while water company executives take home six-figure bonuses. It’s time to look after our water properly – by taking profit out of the equation.
This week, Grace is joined by James Schneider, former Head of Strategic Communications for Jeremy Corbyn, to talk about his book Our Bloc: How We Win. They discuss the challenges facing the Left in the UK and around the world—and how we can bring together the disparate parts of our movement responding to the cost of living and climate crises into a coherent bloc to build power.
Wages are dropping at their fastest rate on record, but executive pay rose by nearly 40% last year. That it’s workers, not bosses, being told to practice pay restraint is a reminder that the whole system is rigged in favour of the rich.
After a wave of protest last month forced Sri Lanka’s president from office, Ceylon Teachers’ Union general secretary Joseph Stalin speaks about the labour movement’s role in the uprising – and about the struggles that still lie ahead.
Britain was a once a leader in the global race for fibre optic technology. Then the Thatcher government sold off the factories – and now we have slow speeds, high prices, and workers facing real-terms pay cuts.
There’s nothing neutral or natural about resource ownership being concentrated in the hands of an elite few – and the countless crises now hitting the public make it clear a democratic alternative is long overdue.
The fact P&O won’t face criminal proceedings over its mass sacking of 800 workers is a reminder of the impunity enjoyed by rogue bosses in the British economy – and of the urgent need to overhaul our labour laws.
Amazon, one of the most profitable companies on Earth, can afford more than a pathetic 35p pay rise amid a cost of living catastrophe – and this month, its employees have been taking on the behemoth.
London bus drivers were some of the worst hit by the pandemic, and as thanks, many are now being slapped with a real-terms pay cut – so alongside tube and train staff, 1,600 are striking this weekend to demand something better.
Ukraine’s second city, once capital of Soviet Ukraine and a centre of socialist experiment in the 1920s, has been shelled for months. How will it survive the scale of destruction?
The first ever anime feature, now back in cinemas, combines anthropomorphic animals and anti-Western agitation; it was also a work of fascist propaganda.
The Manchester-based American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe’s work epitomised a disappeared and increasingly alien world of public provision.
Paul Verhoeven’s latest film Benedetta, about a nun who enters into a lesbian relationship in her convent while experiencing erotic visions of Jesus, may be disappointing – but at their best Verhoeven’s films do more than just shock.
Thuận’s novel Chinatown moves from Hanoi to Leningrad to Paris, as its Vietnamese migrant narrator charts how the ‘future’ shifted in the 1990s from the East to West.
The first publication by the left-wing London archive MayDay Rooms showcases examples from the 1930s and 1970s of conscious workers using photography as a tool for solidarity and political understanding.
Edwina Attlee’s book ‘Strayed Homes’ praises the in-between spaces of everyday life – the intimate public spaces that can be homes from home.
Kuba Szreder’s ‘ABC’ for workers in the arts advocates ways of out of a system designed to benefit not those who make artworks, but a handful of investors and gallerists.
This issue’s Red Library focuses on the history of Ukraine.
This cost-of-living crisis isn’t inevitable.
This June marked the fiftieth anniversary of the famous photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc taken during the Vietnam War – a reminder of the horrors of war, and of all those whose stories will never be told.