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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.
After the coronavirus crisis, the climate emergency looms on the horizon. There’s only one way to respond to the social and economic challenges posed by both – invest in a just transition and a green jobs programme.
Today is National Postal Workers Day. Across Britain, thousands of posties are delivering essential services while their terms and conditions are under attack – now is the time to stand up for them.
April 28th is celebrated as Mujahideen Victory Day in Afghanistan. But for the country’s Revolutionary Women’s Movement (RAWA), it marks a ‘black day’ when misogyny was institutionalised by an oppressive regime.
Even before coronavirus, as many as 50,000 people died a year in Britain from workplace related incidents. On International Workers’ Memorial Day, we should remember them by fighting for a system that values workers more than profits.
On International Workers’ Memorial Day, we remember the struggle for the shorter working week – when gas workers in 1880s London raised the slogan ‘shorten our hours to prolong our lives.’
This weekend, hundreds of BAME members of the Labour Party – including Diane Abbott MP – came together to discuss the contents of the leaked report and the urgent need to act against the racism it revealed.
Antonio Gramsci died on this day in 1937. We remember his revolutionary life and his contributions to the struggle against capitalism.
Across the media industry, the drive for profit amid falling revenue is building vast churnalism mills where journalists serve advertisers more than the public. The only solution is for media workers to get organised.
Our economic model was broken even before Covid-19. There should be no going back – instead, we need a bold plan to overcome recession as well as climate emergency and growing inequality: a Global Green New Deal.
A new book explores the role of Communists in building France’s militant railway unions – and gives insight into why, even today, they provide some of the sternest opposition to Macron’s labour reforms.
The coronavirus crisis has exposed the failure of the market to meet society’s needs. It’s time for socialists to argue for a fundamental alternative: democratic planning of the economy.
With Corbyn’s departure as leader, Israel’s supporters hope to diminish pro-Palestinian activism in Labour. But as occupation becomes outright annexation, there’s never been a more important time to stand for justice.
Across Europe, housing co-operatives have been used to drive down living costs and democratise urban spaces. They are a key tool in one of the defining fights of our time: breaking the power of the landlords.
Coronavirus is a historic crisis, but it is also producing new forms of social organisation. Whether a better world emerges from this era will depend on our ability to respond to its challenges collectively, argues David Harvey.
Across the Western world, states which have run down their capacities through austerity and privatisation have proven incapable of rising to the challenge of coronavirus – now is the time to make the case for an alternative.
Last night’s EU Council meeting once again failed to agree a rescue package large enough to meet the scale of the coronavirus crisis – and hung Europe’s peripheral states out to dry.
On St. George’s Day, we republish E. P. Thompson’s essay on the life and politics of William Morris — an English revolutionary and the greatest moral critic of capitalism of his age.
To rebuild in Scotland, Labour has to convince people of its vision of a better society while rebuilding its links to the working-class communities it has lost – neither of those are possible as a Better Together tribute act.
On Tom Paine’s birthday, we republish Michael Foot on Paine’s revolutionary legacy as a citizen of the world who translated words into action.
On St. George’s Day, we republish E. P. Thompson’s essay on the life and politics of William Morris – an English revolutionary and the greatest moral critic of capitalism of his age.