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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Last month, Dortmund fans voted to prevent their club changing its name, playing home games outside the city or leaving the Bundesliga – a reminder that fan power can stand up to modern football.
Britain’s shamefully low sick pay forces workers to choose between self-isolation and paying the bills – if the government is serious about tackling Omicron, it needs to raise it.
This week, Adele Walton speaks with Asad Rehman, director of War on Want, about how colonial legacies reproduce global inequality, and the need for an anticolonial climate justice movement.
For months, medical experts warned that leaving large areas of the world unvaccinated would make new variants inevitable – but for Big Pharma, profits come before public health.
The Bank of England is eyeing an interest rate hike to fight inflation – a policy that will further curb workers’ bargaining power in the middle of a cost of living crisis.
New research has confirmed a longstanding issue: the British media is institutionally and enthusiastically Islamophobic – with grim consequences for Muslim people across the country.
From criminalising aid workers to barbed-wire prisons and pushbacks at sea, Greece’s right-wing government is waging a war on migrants – and providing a model that Priti Patel is keen to follow.
In 2016, the Colombian government and FARC signed a landmark agreement to end decades of conflict – but five years on, President Duque’s reactionary politics are putting peace at risk.
Boris Johnson’s rail plans were always fatally flawed – if his government really wanted to level up, it would build a modern train system connecting communities across the whole country.
Preston Bus Station isn’t just an iconic brutalist structure, it’s a reminder of a time when planning was bold – and public transport infrastructure was a symbol of the future.
Friedrich Engels was born on this day in 1820, but he was forged as a socialist by Salford’s industrial revolution – two centuries later, city mayor Paul Dennett writes about Engels’ enduring legacy.
A new book explores the legend surrounding the disappearance of one-time socialist MP Victor Grayson – and offers a stark lesson in the political trajectories of those who leave the Left.
Right-wingers use today’s NHS shortcomings to argue that a public health system doesn’t work – but its failings stem from decades of pro-market reforms.
Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Under’ gives passionate expression to the experience of young, left-wing northern England – combining rousing rock with lyrics decrying the dark impact of austerity.
Reported plans to reduce tuition fees by £750 aren’t a real solution to the crisis facing students – if the government wants to make a difference, it should abolish fees entirely and write off student debt.
The government’s classification of Hamas as a terrorist organisation isn’t about keeping anyone safe – it’s the latest cynical attempt to criminalise solidarity with Palestinians.
Malnutrition cases have doubled since the start of Tory Party rule. That isn’t an accident – it’s the predictable consequence of policies designed to make people poorer.
The government’s security apparatus is subjecting Muslim students to relentless suspicion and fuelling hate – turning universities from places of learning into sites of surveillance.
From subsidies to second jobs, the interests of fossil fuel companies are intimately wrapped up with those of the British state and its representatives. We can’t fight the climate crisis until that changes.
Goldsmiths management is pushing a brutal corporate ‘recovery plan’ that will see dozens of staff members laid off – but the workers are committed to fighting back against the decimation of higher education.