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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.
Liz Truss’s plan to move the UK embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was a blatant expression of support for apartheid and annexation. It must be consigned to the dustbin of history alongside her premiership.
Rishi Sunak’s rise to power is designed to shore up British capitalism. He will do it by unleashing a massive new wave of austerity – unless we build a movement to stop him.
The ambulance service is on its knees, but the government won’t listen to workers’ warnings – so today, 15,000 start balloting for a strike.
Grace speaks to Milena Ansari, international advocacy officer at Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights organization. They discuss the horrendous practice of administrative detention and the role of the Israeli justice system in upholding the occupation and the oppression of Palestinians.
The Tories’ latest attack on trade unions would conscript transport workers to work against their will – a historic blow to the right to strike that must be fiercely resisted.
After a 35% pay cut in the last ten years, college lecturers now face losing another 10%. They speak to Tribune about why that can’t be allowed to happen.
40 years ago, the Bradford 12 were arrested by a racist police force for trying to defend their community from fascists. Speaking to Tribune, they recall the solidarity that helped secure their freedom, and the ongoing urgency of resistance.
If triggering a recession wasn’t enough, interest rate hikes funnel money into fossil fuel projects over green ones – meaning they’re not just harming our present, but polluting our future.
It would take a heart of stone to watch the speedy downfall of Liz Truss without laughing. But it’s no good letting the market lead the opposition – just imagine their response to a budget that made the changes Britain really needs.
Food inflation has hit 14.6% – its highest level in four decades. As millions more turn to foodbanks to survive, the right to food is fast becoming the frontline of the cost of living crisis.
The health secretary’s ‘Plan for Patients’ includes nothing that grapples with the real scale of the NHS’s crisis – but does pave the way for even more money to be funnelled into private pockets.
Another round of austerity could push millions into poverty and public services to the brink – it isn’t ‘sensible,’ it’s an act of vandalism.
In 2016, the UN said austerity had led to ‘systemic violations’ of disabled people’s rights. Now spiralling costs are pushing more disabled people into poverty – and with plans for new spending cuts, the Tories are doubling down.
Civil servants haven’t had a proper pay rise for 11 years, and more than a third are skipping meals to save money. The national strike ballot is a chance for 150,000 to make clear they’re not taking it anymore.
When our ruling class preaches virtue, it usually practices vice. The fascistic, eugenicist roots of the Conservative Party’s leading environmentalists are no exception.
On this day in 1945, delegates arrived at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall to begin the Fifth Pan-African Congress. Their aim: laying the foundations of a new Africa, free at last from colonial rule.
Unless Liz Truss commits to wage rises, fair taxes and properly funded public services, sacking Kwasi Kwarteng will make no difference – Britain will still be falling off the cliff edge.
Channel 4’s Peep Show is now almost two decades old. In Jeremy, it captured the archetype of the slacker – living a life that was dysfunctional, but in today’s terms, also unimaginably comfortable.
In the 1930s, Hungarian editor Stefan Lorant founded the ‘Picture Post’, which brought the radical ideas of post-revolutionary Central Europe to British newsagents – shown in its ‘inartistic’ stories of ordinary people.
Cutting bus services means punishing London’s most vulnerable for the pandemic. We need to fight to save the routes at risk – and to make the government fund the transport network properly.