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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.

The Fight for Britain’s Libraries

During the pandemic, library workers have been deemed ‘essential’ and many forced to continue work – but government cuts have led to 1,000 closures in a decade, the real measure of how these services are valued.

The Warmonger Internationalists

The moves to realign Labour’s foreign policy after Corbyn reveal exactly what the political centre means by ‘internationalism’ – liberal values advanced at the point of a cruise missile.

Remembering Nawal El Saadawi

Pioneering Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi passed away this month. Her work challenged Western assumptions about Arab women – and emphasised the vital link between socialism and women’s liberation.

The Long Struggle Over the Suez

Since its construction just over 150 years ago, the Suez Canal has been at the heart of the global capitalist system – and has played a key role in the Arab world’s struggle against its old colonial masters.

In Defence of the Picket Line

The Shrewsbury 24 case lifts the lid on one of the ways the British state has disempowered the working class since the 1970s – a war on the most effective tool available to trade unions: the picket line.

A Country Fit for Carers

After the First World War, David Lloyd George promised ‘a fit country for heroes.’ The carers at the frontline of Covid-19 deserve the same commitment – because when Britain looks after our health system, we all benefit.

Taking Back West Yorkshire’s Buses

Buoyed by a string of recent victories across the country, campaigners in West Yorkshire are calling for an end to their rip-off privatised bus service – and fighting for a public bus system that works for everyone.

Remembering Australia’s Green Bans

In the 1960s and ’70s, Australian construction workers organised with local communities to prevent the destruction of green spaces in urban areas – the movement they created pioneered a green class politics.

Head and Hand

Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s ‘Intellectual and Manual Labour’, recently republished, is an influential account of the way in which human beings built a society where one class plans, and another toils.