Radical Domesticity
Despite the machismo that has beset the Left, solidarity and organising, from the Miners’ Strike to the Troubles, has often centred on the home.
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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.
It’s Time for the Four-Day Week
The biggest-ever pilot of the four-day week proves that cutting working hours with no loss of pay makes us happier, healthier and more productive. Now it’s time for the trade union movement to fight for a shorter working week for all.
The Global South Debt Disaster
The Global South is enduring its worst debt crisis in decades. Unless there is immediate relief, any progress made on tackling extreme poverty risks being wiped out.
Phoenix Nights: A Tribute to a Vanishing British Institution
Two decades after it first aired, Phoenix Nights’ wry portrayal of a northern working men’s club remains a vital celebration of a vanishing working-class culture too often ignored on screen.
Police Infiltration of Unions: We Need the Truth
For decades, undercover police have given workers’ names to the employers’ blacklist if they demanded decent pay or safe conditions. Bringing this dark history to light is long overdue.
The Only Solution to the Energy Crisis Is Public Ownership
Energy giants are forcing people into poverty while destroying the planet, and they’ll keep doing so as long as it turns them a profit. Windfall taxes aren’t enough – we need to put power in public hands.
Medicalising Poverty Is Not the Answer
Government plans to have doctors prescribe things like heating and fresh food to patients only treat the symptoms of a bigger social ill: poverty.
Poetry on the Shop Floor
With strong union backing, the legendary playwright Arnold Wesker fought to bring the arts into workplaces, canteens, and peoples’ daily lives out of a conviction that the labour movement must fight for both cultural and economic change.
Palestinian Lives Behind Israeli Bars
Palestinian prisoners can be left in grim conditions in Israel’s prisons for years, without charge or trial – just one part of the repression they endure daily.
The Plot Against Women’s Football
After the First World War, women’s football swelled in popularity and rallied behind the rising workers’ movement – until the establishment decided it was too radical, and took the legs from under it.
Exercises in Style
Laurent Mauvignier’s home invasion novel offers a compelling but flawed allegory for France’s far right problem.
The Market Will Never Solve Climate Breakdown
During Covid, fossil fuel companies saw tanking oil prices as a sign to finally invest in renewables. Now they’re making bumper profits, they’re rolling back those initiatives – because for them, cash always comes before the planet.
University Workers Are Fighting for the Future of Education
Since 2009, the efforts of ministers and managers have seen real pay for university staff drop 25%, and insecurity, debt, and mental ill-health become rife. If we want the sector to change, we have to back the workers fighting back.
How Universities Are Cracking Down on Dissent
Rather than listening to the concerns of workers and students, more and more universities are responding by surveilling and trying to stop activism in their ranks.
Brendan Behan at 100
Dublin writer Brendan Behan was born 100 years ago today. From his earliest days, his radical politics combined with a literary flair to make him one of the great working-class storytellers.
A Collective Endeavour
A new book shows how LGBT rights in Ireland were won not through EU rulings or state benevolence, but through generations of dedicated activism.
Spain’s Spycop Scandal
Two cops posing as activists have been unmasked in Spain, one after having sexual relationships with at least eight women – a frightening reminder of how far police go to spy on dissent.
Back the Nurses, Save the NHS
Years of attacks on terms and conditions have pushed nurses to the brink. Now they’re striking not only for fair pay, but to protect the NHS for future generations.
Journalists Are Being Arrested Under Anti-Protest Laws
The government’s authoritarian anti-protest laws aren’t only targeting peaceful political demonstrations – they’re being used to target journalists reporting on them, too.
Walking as Resistance
A series of walking tours in Manchester show how neoliberal urban space systematically excludes anyone without money – and some unexpected ways to fight back against it.