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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.
When tech giants offer to help with contact tracing apps, they aren’t being altruistic – they’re embedding themselves in critical infrastructure like healthcare in ways that will be difficult to reverse.
If Momentum is to play a role in rebuilding the Left, it needs to be radically overhauled – and to become an organisation which has a foot in every working-class community in Britain, argues Matt Kerr.
To hold off Sinn Féin, Ireland’s dominant right-wing parties Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have agreed to formal coalition for the first time – but it remains to be seen if they can rescue the country’s declining establishment.
The SNP’s decision to side with the Tories to vote down a rent freeze makes clear that tenants in Scotland can’t rely on the political establishment – the only solution is to get organised and fight back.
The story of Poly Styrene, as told in a new biography, intersperses the dayglo with a more quotidian grey.
Blair, Blunkett, Adonis, Johnson. Recent days have seen an avalanche of attacks by prominent Labour figures on teachers’ unions – emboldened by the party leadership’s muted support for their cause, argues Grace Blakeley.
NHS workers who needed PPE during this crisis were forced to rely on an inefficient network of private providers which failed to produce in time – it was yet another disaster brought about by privatisation.
Recent years have seen an explosion in union activity on university campuses, with two major strike waves against neoliberal reforms – but if workers are to win concessions, they will need to build from the grassroots.
Boris Johnson’s government is dominated by landlords, many of whom own multiple properties and make a fortune from rent. It isn’t a fluke that they support policies which harm tenants – it’s class politics.
When the government announced their plans to reopen schools without consultation, Boris Johnson expected to be able to ignore the concerns of teachers – instead he has breathed new life into their trade unions.
The coronavirus crisis has deepened Britain’s inequalities, but it has also strengthened public opposition to austerity policies – the task for the Left is to build a new consensus on progressive terms, argues Faiza Shaheen.
Teachers understand how important it is to get children back to school – but their unions have raised clear and valid concerns about safety that the government has failed to answer, argues Rebecca Long-Bailey.
The pandemic has demonstrated how fundamental the internet is to our lives, but private companies continue to rip us off while providing poor service – it’s time to think again about free public broadband, argues John McDonnell.
Coronavirus has cratered the airline industry, and its executives have responded by attacking workers. Labour needs a bold response – now is the time to argue for public ownership to save jobs and the climate.
In 2008, neoliberals who have shaped economic policy for decades exploited the crisis to further entrench their power. They will do the same with coronavirus – unless the Left builds an alternative.
Aneurin Bevan responded to the deep crises of the 1930s and ’40s by making the case for transforming the economy in workers’ interests, and ultimately building the NHS. The Left can learn from his example today.
Adopting community organising was an important step to rebuilding Labour’s roots in working-class areas – but to be effective it needs to focus on building power that lasts beyond elections.
Leslie Kern’s new book ‘Feminist City’ is a flawed but compelling argument for an urban environment that genuinely exists for everyone.
In his latest book ‘Humankind,’ Rutger Bregman launches a 300-page defence of human nature against the Hobbesians – but without a political perspective, his hope begins to feel like self-help.
The London Renters Union’s strike campaign is recognising a reality that the government wants to ignore – for thousands in this pandemic, the choice is increasingly between paying the rent and putting food on the table.