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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.
Today marks 10 years since the first Coalition austerity budget. The last decade showed that austerity can be worse for the economy than any recession – but the government is determined to ignore the lesson.
Coronavirus has exposed the scandal of our privatised, fragmented, and underfunded social care system – it’s time to make the case for a real alternative: a National Care Service.
Recent weeks have seen France explode with mass demonstrations against police brutality – sparked by events in America but inspired by the killing of young black people at home.
How has the city with more Turner Prize winners than any other in the UK managed to put up such consistently terrible public art?
The Covid-19 crisis has given governments another excuse to ignore their responsibilities to refugees. Before the climate crisis to come, it’s essential that everyone fleeing disaster is treated with dignity.
In Myanmar under the British Empire, a wave of strikes in the country’s oil fields led to a mass socialist movement that led the country towards independence.
While far-right violence claimed the headlines in Glasgow this week, the cause behind the original peaceful protest endures – the inhumane living conditions facing asylum seekers in the city.
Automation has been slower in recent years than many expected – but with the pandemic forcing companies to innovate, and borrowing cheaper than ever, many of today’s job losses might become permanent.
Former Labour MP Laura Smith, who lost her seat in December’s election, responds to the Labour Together report – and argues that those who saw the disaster coming in Red Wall seats were ignored.
Rhodes Must Fall is about more than a statue, it’s about getting Britain’s universities to confront the legacies of colonialism – and that fight will continue whether or not Cecil Rhodes comes down in Oxford.
The Labour Together report evidences the long-term trends that were behind December’s defeat – but if the party is to recover it must take the task of re-engaging with working-class communities seriously.
Last night’s riot in Glasgow is a reminder to anti-fascists that the far-right is increasingly emboldened – and will need to be faced down by a united working-class movement.
The CWU’s new football shirt – launched with the support of Show Racism the Red Card – aims to put trade unions at the front of the fight against racism not only in work but on the terraces too.
On this day in 1984, a paramilitary police operation set out to smash the miners – and send a lesson to working-class people across Britain that meaningful strike action would not be tolerated.
Coronavirus has shown us how workers, day by day, provide the collective basis that makes society possible. They stitch together the social fabric — only for capital to tear it apart.
Boris Johnson’s decision to axe the Department for International Development comes just as Black Lives Matter forces Britain to confront its imperial past – and is a slap in the face for the Global South.
In the 1930s, the New Deal effort to pull the United States out of depression included a Federal Theater Project. As Covid-19 destroys the jobs of low-income arts workers, we need the same ambition.
The Black Lives Matter movement doesn’t just need allies who condemn the murder of George Floyd, it needs comrades in the fight against racial injustice – and the trade union movement must rise to the challenge.
Over 600 Labour members and supporters sign an open letter to Labour leader Keir Starmer criticising his engagement with the pro-BJP diaspora groups over questions of Indian politics and Kashmir.
Boris Johnson is framing the Covid-19 debate as ‘health vs. the economy’ – but his government’s approach to this crisis has helped neither, and nor will recklessness in easing the lockdown.