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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
As Chile emerged from Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship, the stylish and challenging work of poet Pedro Lemebel gave caustic expression to the lives of gender-diverse people, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the Chilean left, and the country’s post-1990 fate.
In a desperate attempt to cling on to power, Macron is blocking the French left from government. If this assault on democratic principle is not defeated, it will all but ensure the far-right’s victory in the next election.
After her books faced bans for their unashamed portrayals of women’s lives and aspirations, Edna O’Brien — who has died aged 93 — became a powerful voice against censorship that haunted the supporters of Ireland’s broken system.
The TUC’s decision to sell its iconic Congress House — a modernist monument to the strength of workers — is a sad example of today’s labour movement increasingly losing its sense of purpose.
Rachel Reeves’ plans to slash public spending and investment on the basis that Britain is ‘broke’ is a rehash of the exact rhetoric that gave us 14 years of Tory austerity.
Without emergency funding, British universities are at a real risk of collapse — something that could lead to thousands of job losses and local economies in crisis. The government can’t let this happen.
The Labour Party reportedly agreed not to introduce media reforms in exchange for Rupert Murdoch’s backing — ensuring that the corrosive role that media elites play in our country will continue with impunity under a Starmer government.
EXCLUSIVE: Ten trade union general secretaries have written to Keir Starmer to demand the scrapping of the two-child limit and the ‘immediate reinstatement’ of the seven MPs suspended for voting against Britain’s biggest driver of child poverty.
The ICJ ruling finding Israel’s occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.
Keir Starmer’s decision to suspend MPs opposing child poverty exposes not only his authoritarian instincts but his fear of discussion over arguments he knows he cannot win.
Two recent books exploring the post-crash ‘mass protest decade’ and the Left’s ‘populist moment’ present a vital — but sobering — assessment of the Left’s consistent failures and potential prospects.
A new documentary uses AI and innovative generative technology to profile the 76-year-old British musician and producer. Is its pioneering software a gateway or a gimmick?
40 years ago today, 11 Dublin supermarket workers walked out on strike to refuse the selling of South African fruit — an act of defiance that would make Ireland the first Western nation to ban apartheid goods.
Modernist architecture in India and colonial West Africa may have been introduced by jobbing English architects, but new generations of local architects quickly made the style their own. A new exhibition at the V&A tells the story.
The student encampments won against hostile politicians, media and university management — demonstrating the power of grassroots campaigns to disrupt Israel’s war machine.
Labour’s plans to deregulate planning processes will further open up Britain to the property developers who have already caused so much damage to the country — and do little to help those at the sharp end of the housing crisis.
The rise of the far-right and their appeasement by our political class has frightening implications for Black people in Britain. It’s time to redouble our commitment to the anti-racist struggle, write Black Lives Matter UK.
Amazon workers in Coventry are on the brink of historic union recognition for the first time in British history. Despite the retail giant ramping up union busting, unionisation is closer than ever before.
Labour’s claim that there is no money left will condemn Britain to more austerity while letting billionaires, landlords, and corporations off the hook. The alternative is simple: tax the wealthy instead.
In a newly published 2006 interview, Tony Benn explains to Matt Kennard why the establishment fears true democracy: they understand it would mean the end of the capitalist system itself.