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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.
From supporting full-wage sick pay to calling for union access and protections for workplace whistleblowers, there are many ways the Labour Party could strengthen their deal for workers during this pandemic.
In Italy, a constitutional referendum promises to solve the country’s democratic crisis by cutting the number of politicians – but easy solutions to structural problems will feed rather than resolve popular frustrations.
In Madrid, authorities have imposed a new lockdown on 850,000 people living in the city’s working-class neighbourhoods – the very places where key workers at the front lines of the virus are most likely to live.
100 years ago today Victor Grayson – one of the most famous socialist politicians of his generation – left his London apartment and was never seen again. We explore his controversial life and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.
From care homes to the test and trace system, England’s coronavirus fiasco has been caused by outsourced companies running what should be public services for private profit.
Today Eric Hobsbawm is often described as a great historian despite his Marxism – but the opposite is true: Hobsbawm’s Marxist perspective imbued his work with a unique historical understanding.
International law is written for capital, providing the basis for neoliberal globalisation and the exploitation of the Global South – the Left can’t afford to be its uncritical champion.
In Haringey, ten care workers who were paid less than half the minimum wage took legal action against their employers – and won. But their case is only the start of the fight for justice.
While countries across Europe extend their furlough schemes into next year, Britain is winding its support down just as lockdown returns. It is a recipe for economic disaster.
Carl Neville discusses his new novel ‘Eminent Domain,’ which imagines an alternative Britain where Thatcherism didn’t prevail – and socialism shaped society instead of the market.
In his work on acid communism, Mark Fisher wrote that counter-culture explored the relationship of consciousness and reality – and none did this better than the psychedelic music of the 1960s.
In the early weeks of Covid-19, mutual aid groups sprang up across Britain to support those abandoned by years of austerity. Now they are grappling with their roles in the months and years to come.
Massive Attack’s new EP consists of three audiovisual lectures on basic income, tax avoidance and climate change as an attempt to visualise a ‘eutopia’ – an attainable ‘good-place.’
In the University of Stirling, harsh penalties handed out to students who occupied in support of striking staff sends a clear message – resistance to the neoliberal university will not be tolerated.
This week, Grace is joined by Jacobin writer Meagan Day to discuss the aftermath of the Bernie campaign, the US presidential election and where the country’s Left goes next.
International trade is not just about imports and exports, but the economic and regulatory framework across the globe. As the liberal order falls into decline, it is vital that the Left offers a real alternative.
The latest plan to save journalism would see Google and Facebook taxed to fund media outlets. But instead of reliance on Big Tech monopolies, journalism would benefit most from breaking them up.
The behind closed doors Premier League proves that the banners have been right for years – football without fans is nothing.
For Karl Marx, slavery was not a relic from a past society but essential to the development of modern capitalism – and its abolition was essential to the liberation of all people.
From his academic work to Occupy Wall Street and his support for Corbynism, the driving conviction of David Graeber’s life was that human beings are good – and capable of building a better world.