Remembering Michael Manley
On Jamaican Independence Day, we remember the country’s firebrand socialist leader Michael Manley – and his struggle in the 1970s to improve the lives of workers and the poor.
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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.
BT’s Attack on Key Workers
BT workers kept Britain connected during Covid-19 – but instead of a reward from the company they now face forced redundancies and cuts to terms and conditions.
Privatised Test and Trace Is a Tory Mess
Instead of investing in public test and trace, the Tory government handed the system over to outsourcing giant Serco and a call centre company. Inevitably, it has failed to deliver.
Hiroshima at 75
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima 75 years ago today. It remains an act of barbarism unparalleled in the history of war – and its use was never a necessity.
How Market Ideology Destroyed Resilience in our NHS
Corporate management tactics – and the mantra to ‘do more with less’ – claimed to be cutting waste from the NHS, but what they actually cut was resilience and its ability to deal with crises like Covid-19.
Friedrich Engels and the Irish Lever
Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago today. We remember his engagement with the Irish question – and why he came to believe that, for workers in England to gain their freedom, “the lever must be applied in Ireland.”
Universal Basic Services: A New Model of Collectivism
The labour movement should respond to this economic crisis with a bold vision of a society where everyone is guaranteed the basics in life – and collective interests are more important than private profits.
Roger McKenzie: ‘If We’re Not Organised, We Can’t Win’
Unison general secretary candidate Roger McKenzie on his plans to revive organising in the union, grow its activist base, transform the social care sector – and defend Labour’s pro-worker policies.
Eat Out to Help Rishi
The ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ campaign won’t save jobs, but it will hand over millions of pounds in subsidies to major corporations – and set the ball rolling on Rishi Sunak’s leadership campaign.
How the Government Abandoned the Self-Employed
After years of allowing self-employment to replace secure and well-paid work, the government promptly abandoned the self-employed during this crisis – for the millions left behind, it’s time to organise for better.
Failing Class
In today’s Scottish Highers, working-class young people found their results disproportionately downgraded because of their schools’ history – locking in the educational inequality that plagues the system.
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.
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%.