Why Nurses Are Saying Enough is Enough
The NHS is the pride of Britain, but the last decade has seen pay for nurses fall dramatically and food banks set up in hospitals. It’s a disgraceful situation that can’t be tolerated any longer.
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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.
Robbing the Poor to Fund the Rich
The Tories are reportedly considering slashing benefits to fund their bankers’ budget. It’s sickening proof of just how deep their cruelty runs.
More Austerity Was Always the Plan
Friday’s budget might have caused more chaos than Truss and Kwarteng foresaw, but they always hoped to open the door to more spending cuts and sell-offs – and in that respect, things are right on course.
Liverpool’s Dockers Are Fighting For the Working Class
More than 500 dock workers in Liverpool are out on strike against a real-terms pay cut from a company turning over millions – and proving the power of industrial action and solidarity to build a better world.
95. Internet Enclosure w/ Ben Tarnoff
On this week’s podcast, Grace speaks to Ben Tarnoff, author of Internet for the People. They discuss the history of the web’s enclosure and privatisation – and how we could build a different model for the future.
Luton’s Enough is Enough Rally Was a Powerful Show of Working-Class Unity
In a town consistently misrepresented as a hub of religious and racial tension, Luton’s Enough is Enough rally was a clear reminder that what working class people have in common is so much more than what divides us.
Labour’s Late Start
This year’s conference has shown Labour at last willing to intervene in a failing private energy system, but still not ready to do what the scale of this crisis really demands: getting rid of that system altogether.
Giorgia Meloni’s Victory in the Vacuum of Italian Democracy
This weekend’s Italian election brought victory for Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Fratelli d’Italia, with record low turnout – the result of the decades-long collapse of Italy’s political horizons.
Building a People’s Economy in London
In the 1980s, a group of radical economists, planners, and activists in the GLC set out to transform London’s economy in the interest of its working class – with achievements and limitations we can learn from today.
Making Universal Credit Even Harsher Is Not the Answer
Universal Credit is already a disaster – and while millions worry about putting food on the table, the government has decided now’s the time to make the cruel system even crueller.
Here’s What That Budget Should Have Said
Yesterday was a chance for the government to take real action on the cost of living crisis: proper pay rises, a windfall tax on energy giants, a rent freeze. They chose not to take it – so on 1 October, we take to the streets.
University Workers Are Ready to Fight Like Never Before
University bosses have spent the last decade attacking pay and pensions and stripping bare the conditions that once formed the basis of a career in higher education. Now, members of UCU are rising to take back what is theirs.
The Great Tax Robbery
Tax is about political choices. At the worst possible time, our government just made all the wrong ones.
Handouts for the Rich, Hardship for the Rest
Today’s budget was an unashamed handout to the rich. Workers aren’t going to take it lying down, and everyone seems to know it – except the government.
Stop the Uberisation of Royal Mail
Today’s move by Royal Mail to rip up agreements with the CWU is the biggest attack on workers in a generation. If it isn’t fought, we could see the derecognition of a strong union and the fragmentation of our postal service.
The Treasury Needs a Reckoning
As a state bureaucracy, the Treasury is too controlling, conservative and elitist. Liz Truss’s attacks on it won’t make it work for ordinary people – but she’s right that change is needed, writes an anonymous civil servant.
How Labour Abandoned Apsana Begum
Apsana Begum returns to work today. Her treatment is a nauseating example of the Labour leadership’s willingness to abandon Muslim women and domestic abuse survivors if they don’t have the right political friends.
The Grenfell Tower Fire Was Part of Britain’s Colonial Legacy
Named for a colonial leader and built under the same deregulatory drive imposed on newly independent nations, the Grenfell Tower fire wasn’t solely a disaster of the present – it was proof of empire’s long and continuing shadow.
The Cost of Living Crisis Is Hammering the Global South
The Global South’s resilience against economic shock has been systematically stripped away – both by debt, and by the austerity countries had to accept to get loans in the first place. That debt must be forgiven.
Endless Summer
In her award-winning novel ‘Summer Fun’, Jeanne Thornton writes of pop, politics, and the pleasures and pressures of transgender life.