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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.
The Durham Miners’ Gala is an institution of the British labour movement – but behind it, the Redhills building, Pitman’s Parliament and long-lasting Association provide a glimpse into the power of workers’ self-organisation.
Covid-19 has exposed the crisis in our NHS and the need for a radical overhaul. It’s time to restore a proper public health system that puts patients and workers before the interests of private profit.
A handful of Big Tech corporations now wield more power than most national governments. It’s time to subject them to democratic control – before their power erodes democracy.
Any strategy for combatting climate change that doesn’t focus on delivering well-paid, unionised jobs is doomed to fail – we need a vision of a Green New Deal with workers at its heart.
In the 1920s and ’30s, German publisher Willi Münzenberg built a network of magazines, newspapers and film studios that terrified big business interests. It became the largest left-wing media operation in history.
Last June, France’s second city of Marseille voted for a left-wing government after two decades of conservative rule – but maintaining a broad coalition amid Covid-19 financial pressures is proving difficult to manage.
By pumping billions of pounds into quantitative easing programmes, the Bank of England is propping up the asset and stock prices of the rich – in the midst of an unemployment crisis that is hammering workers.
India’s farmer protests are mounting a major challenge to the Modi regime – and the violence deployed in response shows that the government senses the threat.
This week, Grace speaks to Stansted 15 activist Ben Smoke about the hostile environment, the power of direct action, and the steady degradation of human rights in Britain.
In December, CWU members in BT Group overwhelmingly rejected the company’s plans for mass redundancies. Now they have a message: start real negotiations soon, or we ballot for industrial action.
Jeff Bezos is stepping aside as Amazon’s CEO having made a fortune of almost $200 billion. It’s an attempt at reputation rehabilitation – but he can’t escape the legacy of exploitation he leaves behind.
E. P. Thompson, author of ‘The Making of the English Working Class,’ was born on this day in 1924. His work reclaimed history for the masses – and displayed a resilient hope in their capacity to remake the world.
In memory of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, we republish Michael Foot’s tribute to ‘the incorrigible dissenter, the foremost sceptic and exponent of free thought throughout the last half-dozen decades.’
Four years after Rafael Correa’s successor Lenín Moreno abandoned the Citizen Revolution for neoliberalism, Ecuador’s Left is back. We speak to presidential frontrunner Andrés Arauz ahead of this weekend’s election.
Britain is the world’s second largest arms exporter, selling £11 billion worth of weapons in 2019 alone – and from the beginning of the war on Yemen, the industry has been directly complicit in a humanitarian disaster.
For years, London has been a playground for international investors while 2.5 million Londoners – 28% of the population – lived in poverty. As Covid-19 slows the influx of capital, it’s time to imagine a more equal city.
The British novelist’s works, currently being reissued, encompassed witches, communist revolutionaries, and medieval monasteries – but running through them all is her formal invention and socialist politics.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is lionised by the Western press, but his actual politics are rarely interrogated – allowing him to align with hardline nationalists while appealing to a liberal audience.
In Britain today, nurses often pay higher tax rates than hedge fund managers. The failure to properly tax wealth is a scandal – and it should end now, before Covid-19 deepens inequality even further.
Almost four years after Grenfell, 700,000 people in England live in homes with flammable cladding – it is a symptom of a housing sector driven by profit and a government which refuses to regulate.