Pizza Express: Hands Off Your Workers’ Dough
Without proper consultation, Pizza Express has brought in a policy that tops up kitchen pay by reducing tips to waiting staff – leaving many workers hundreds of pounds down each month.
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Raven Hart
Raven Hart is co-founder of the Bristol Cooperative Alliance, an organisation that aims to promote a decentralised economy that empowers local communities and facilitates democratic self-determination.
How Britain’s New Towns Built Back Better
75 years ago this month, the post-war government passed the New Towns Act. It was a radical crisis recovery plan – one our politicians could learn from after the pandemic.
The Landlord Parliament
115 MPs – 90 of them Tories – are landlords making thousands per year from privately-rented properties. The housing crisis won’t be solved until that changes.
The Revolutionary Life of James Baldwin
Writer and activist James Baldwin was born on this day in 1924 – and spent his life fighting the interconnected injustices of racism, imperialism, homophobia, and capitalism.
Saving Singapore’s Golden Mile Complex
Singapore’s complicated mix of land nationalisation, mass public housing, and finance capitalism come together in the Golden Mile Complex – a 1970s megastructure which has just been saved from demolition.
The Cultural Industry of China
The cross-currents of politics and creative culture in China over the decades have had a major effect on both – influencing how culture is produced, and how politics is understood.
Justice for the 97
This week, Andrew Devine became the 97th victim of the Hillsborough disaster to be unlawfully killed – but until there is real accountability for those responsible for covering up state crimes, there can never be justice.
Their Tradition and Ours
Conservatives claim to defend tradition, but what they actually defend is historic injustice and inherited hierarchy – it’s the job of socialists to sustain the working-class tradition of fighting back.
Pedro Castillo Offers a Chance for Peru to Break With its Neoliberal History
Indigenous left-winger Pedro Castillo has been sworn in as the president of Peru. His victory marks a break with decades of Cold War conservatism – and opens up the possibility of a government of the poor.
Speaking to Leeds
During lockdown, a bookshop placed Pete Mitchell’s photographs of Leeds in the 1970s and 80s on billboards near their original locations – juxtaposing the modern city with its own nostalgic past.
The Fight to Kill the Bill Isn’t Over
The Tories’ racist anti-protest bill isn’t yet law. We can still fight against its worst elements – and against the creeping authoritarianism that produced it.
Jimmy Reid: ‘We’re Not Rats. We’re Human Beings.’
50 years ago this week, Jimmy Reid led the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in that defeated the Tory government. In commemoration, we republish his speech about alienation under capitalism.
How a New Aristocracy Is Profiting from Covid
Worldwide, secretive ‘family offices’ turn individual wealth into dynastic fortunes for everyone from CEOs to ex-prime ministers – and they’ve made big money from the Covid crisis.
The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In
On this day in 1971, shipyard workers in Clydeside began a work-in to save 8,000 jobs. Their struggle kept the yards open – and defeated the Tory government.
How an Indian Radical Founded the Mexican Communist Party
Exiled from India, anticolonial activist M. N. Roy charted a revolutionary course that took him everywhere from Mexico City to Moscow. Today, his life is a reminder of how global the struggle for freedom continues to be.
46. Asset Manager Capitalism: An Interview with Adrienne Buller and Ben Braun
This week, Grace talks to researchers Adrienne Buller and Ben Braun about where the power really lies in big corporations – and whether worker ownership can change the game.
The Floods Will Get Worse – Unless the System Changes
The extreme flooding seen across the world, including in London, in recent weeks is the collision of two disasters created by the ruling class – climate change and infrastructural collapse.
To Save the Planet, We Have to Change How We Travel
The government’s latest transport plan relies on new technologies to make how we travel today carbon neutral – but what we really need is to make climate-friendly systems like rail faster and more affordable.
Reading Dominic Cummings from the Left
Dominic Cummings’ recent interviews reveal an awareness that the political system is broken, but a narrow analysis as to why – because it is populated by the wrong people, not designed to serve the wrong interests.
Chasing Utopia
Between the wars, various groups experimented in building new societies. None lasted – but they were proof of the enduring desire for a future radically different from the past.