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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.
This week, Grace speaks to writer and historian Peter Mitchell about how the memory of empire manifests in today’s politics, how Labour supports that trend, and how the Left should respond to emotive calls for a return to a better age.
A documentary film about the science fiction motif of ‘the world as a hallucination’ reveals something quite different — the tragedy of the means people use to cope with reality.
After years of institutional neglect, residents of Marsh Farm in Luton have come together to build a bottom-up model of regeneration – one which puts the community’s interest before private profit.
Tennis has often been considered an exclusive sport – but in the 1930s, trade unionists came together to challenge the private clubs with their own tournament: the ‘Workers’ Wimbledon.’
For decades, Israel has used culture and heritage as a weapon in its war against the Palestinians – but its latest move in Silwan is the most brazen yet: replacing living neighbourhoods with a biblical theme park.
The recently re-released ‘Friendship’s Death’ is an ambitious 1980s Channel 4 film in which left-wing director Peter Wollen brings radical science fiction together with the Palestinian freedom struggle.
Despite early predictions that the pandemic would be a ‘great leveller,’ it’s increasingly clear that Covid-19 has helped major corporations increase their power – and only worker organising can fight back.
Last week, the campaign for a statue to Jack Charlton in his hometown of Ashington reached its funding goal – with support from trade unions, ex-miners and the local council securing a statue to a working-class hero.
While the government rolls out grandiose schemes to make Britain a ‘global superpower,’ it continues to neglect the care sector at home – priorities which show it has learned nothing from the Covid-19 pandemic.
New analysis shows that Covid-19 mortality was 25 percent higher in parts of England which were poorer and more impacted by austerity – exposing the government’s myth that the pandemic was a ‘great equaliser.’
Nearly 1 in 10 workers have faced threats to their pay, conditions and jobs since the pandemic began due to aggressive fire and rehire tactics – but the government could step in tomorrow to make them illegal.
Keir Starmer’s party might have held Batley and Spen, but its approach to both domestic and foreign issues has turned away swathes of supporters in the Muslim community – as well as showing a total lack of moral fibre.
Labour’s razor-thin victory in Batley and Spen owes to Kim Leadbeater’s popular local candidacy – not to a party leadership that continues to alienate its own core voters.
As one historic heatwave tears through the Pacific Northwest, another is causing temperatures ‘too hot for humanity’ in Pakistan – the consequences of climate change are no longer a threat, they’re already here.
The Tories are once again threatening to privatise Channel 4, the latest in a string of attacks on public broadcasting – to only way to fight back is to build a campaign for a truly democratic media.
Last year, the Trussell Trust distributed a record-breaking 2.5 million emergency food parcels. That charitable giving isn’t cause for celebration – it’s proof of the total abdication of responsibility by our politicians.
Since the 2019 election, commentators have focused on the demise of Labour heartlands in the ‘red wall’ – but few have focused on the central role once played by trade unions in sustaining a sense of community.
David R Edwards, vocalist from experimental Welsh-language group Datblygu, has died aged 56. His work was pivotal in the Welsh musical underground – and in the revival of a radical Welsh culture.
‘Hopeless’ Hancock is out, but his successor Sajid Javid is ideologically committed to privatisation and an investor in private healthcare – the perfect candidate to accelerate the sell-off of our NHS.
The Labour Party’s backpedalling on a National Independent Living Support Service shows the party isn’t serious about fighting for disabled people – or about investment in the public services we need.