Remembering Tony Merrick
Tony Merrick, who passed away last week, was a giant of the British trade union movement who stood up to the state’s attacks on workers and was jailed with the Pentonville Five for defending his class.
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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.
Covid-19 Could Be an Opportunity to Combat Inequality
Recent decades have seen inequality grow across the West. The Covid-19 crisis looks likely to continue the trend, but it doesn’t have to be that way – governments could choose to fight it instead.
The Cries o’ a New Warld
In his centenary year, we salute Edwin Morgan – a Scottish socialist whose modernist poetry covered the distance from Glasgow to Saturn.
Brazil’s Corrupt Anticorruption Campaign
Brazil’s Lava Jato investigation which jailed Lula was lauded by anticorruption campaigners in the West – but its legacy is the most corrupt president in the country’s history: Jair Bolsonaro.
We Can’t Let the Tories Scapegoat Muslims for Their Coronavirus Failures
Britain has one of the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, but rather than face its failures the Tory government is turning to an old trick – scapegoating Muslims and the marginalised.
The Newham Enclosures
Researcher Joy White speaks about her new book ‘Terraformed – Young Black Lives in the Inner City,’ which outlines the deliberate marginalisation of working class black youth in the London borough of Newham.
A Blueprint for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The late theorist Erik Olin Wright’s final book holds crucial lessons about which strategies belong to the past and which ones can build the bridge to a socialist future.
The Pandemic Profiteers
Billionaires have seen their fortunes skyrocket during Covid-19 while workers face wage cuts and layoffs – if we want to build a more equal society, we have to take them on.
How the Bexley Bin Workers Won
Refuse workers and street cleansers in Bexleyheath won a landmark victory last week – increased pay, sick pay and reinstatement of sacked members – after a campaign which saw union density rise from 25 to 95%.
How Covid-19 Is Changing the Workplace
With many forced to work from home since Covid-19, companies have increasingly used the opportunity to implement surveillance technologies and attack conditions – but workers have also found ways to fight back.
Dawn Butler: ‘To Dismantle Systemic Racism, We Need Uncomfortable Conversations’
Labour MP Dawn Butler on the racist abuse that forced her to close her office, encouraging her party to do more in response to Black Lives Matter – and why Met Police chief Cressida Dick should resign.
How Africa’s Horizons Narrowed
Post-independence African leaders had dreams of breaking from Western control and transforming their societies – but then the World Bank and IMF drove the continent towards neoliberalism.
The Mirage of Progressive Scotland
With the Tories in power for a decade, English liberals have increasingly projected their aspirations onto ‘progressive’ Scotland – but from economic policy to Covid-19, its government is not a model to follow.
To Tackle Obesity, Fight Inequality
By shifting the blame for obesity onto individuals, the government is covering up its own contributions to the structural causes – from shutting leisure centres to supporting low wages and longer working hours.
How a Bold Left Can Still Shape the Future
Britain and the world face overlapping crises of historic proportions. Only the Left can meet the challenges of our time but that means urgently organising around a popular programme.
How Unions Are Responding to the Employment Crisis
With unemployment numbers rising rapidly, and the end of the furlough approaching, trade unions are the last line of defence for thousands of workers trying to save their livelihoods.
Murdoch’s Long Shadow
Rupert Murdoch’s regular – and private – meetings with Boris Johnson show how much influence the media baron still exerts over British politics – and why his power needs to be challenged.
It’s Time to Fight Against Another Lost Decade
After the last economic crisis, government policies drove wages down, inequality up and the economy into permanent stagnation – we can’t let them get away with it again.
Why Liberalism Can’t Solve the Crisis of Democracy
Liberals increasingly realise that astronomical inequalities are tearing democracy apart – but won’t support figures like Corbyn or Sanders because they can’t countenance the radical change required to save it.
Builders Crack
A recently rediscovered movie premiering this week tells the story of ‘Builders Crack,’ a radical workers’ magazine which helped organise building sites in the 1990s against gangster bosses.