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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.

Something in the Air

A new book on modern architecture and climate researches the passive cooling strategies that immediately preceded the age of air-conditioning. In the age of accelerating climate change, can we learn anything from them?

Repetitive Beats

The Design Museum’s show Electronic showcases how a once-revolutionary music has become bourgeois and clichéd, but contains scattered hints at what was once possible.

The NHS’s Winter of Discontent

Even before the pandemic hit, health workers warned that hospitals were struggling to cope. Now, as they fight through one of the darkest periods in living memory, those at the frontline are increasingly angry at the government’s failures.

Years in the Making

The NHS crisis didn’t begin with Covid-19 — years of outsourcing, competitiveness reforms, and obsessions over ‘efficiency’ have decimated the public health service.

The Campus Revolt

Ripped-off students are engaged in the largest rent strike in decades — but that’s only the beginning. The only way to bring about real change is to stop the marketisation of higher education.

Tribune’s Tribunes

In the 1960s, the Labour left organised around Tribune and tried to build itself into a parliamentary vehicle for socialism.

Ruins of the Mind

Joelle M. Abi-Rached’s new book uses a single psychiatric hospital to tell both the history of psychiatry and the history of modern Lebanon.

Fight at the Museum

The culture war over history isn’t the only battle in Britain’s museums, there’s a fight over job security too – and at the V&A, the latest institution to plan layoffs, the two issues are joined at the hip.

The Last Neoliberal

Elected on a promise to modernise France, Emmanuel Macron has revealed what the political centre looks like in practice – a war on workers, authoritarian demagogy and a further emboldening of the far-right.

Towards a Feminist Trade Union Movement

Women now make up the majority of union members in Britain and increasingly lead labour struggles across the world – but their unions too rarely reflect them. It’s time for that to change.