38 Years After Orgreave, Protest Is Still Under Attack
On this day in 1984, striking miners were attacked by a paramilitary police operation at Orgreave. They faced no accountability – and almost four decades later, little has changed.
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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.
The Media Versus the Miners
The Battle of Orgreave saw miners violently attacked by mounted police. But the press told a different story, designed to demonise the strike – and convince ordinary people that trade unions were their enemy.
The Household Debt Crisis
The soaring cost of living is forcing millions to turn to credit card borrowing just to survive. We need a write off of unjust debt to give people a chance to rebuild their lives.
Students Are at Breaking Point
The cost of living crisis is forcing students to choose between paying rent and buying food. They need targeted support – and an end to a profit-driven university system that treats them as cash cows.
Defend the RMT
The media want to pit the public against the 50,000 railway workers striking next week, but their attacks only expose the truth: that in the face of establishment hostility, RMT members are standing up for all working people.
The Wage-Price Spiral Is a Myth
The government and the Bank of England have joined forces to force workers to pay for the cost of living crisis – but it’s profiteering, not wage demands, which is driving inflation.
Roehampton Staff Are Fighting for the Future of Education
Roehampton University is planning to sack half its workforce and scrap arts and humanities courses. Its workers are fighting not just for their jobs, but against government efforts to make higher education the privilege of an elite few.
Open Letter: We Need a National Food Emergency Summit
In an open letter, a coalition of academics, trade unions, and community activists call on the government to organise a summit to deal with our national food emergency – and take urgent steps to help the millions going hungry in Britain.
83. Half-Earth Socialism w/ Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass
This week, Grace speaks to Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass about the problems with proposed technological solutions to climate breakdown — and how neoliberals are responding.
Taking Back the Land
A small number of wealthy individuals own half of Scotland. Tackling inequalities means redistributing land to bring this feudal-style system to an end.
It’s Time to Declare a National Food Emergency
Today in Britain, 7.3 million people don’t have enough to eat. It is the great moral scandal of our time – but the government is determined to look the other way.
Ground the Whole Rwanda Plan
Stopping last night’s deportation flight was a victory for activists across the country who fought to defend asylum seeker rights. Now it’s time for the scheme itself to be scrapped.
The Radical History of Scotland’s Bothies
Scotland’s network of remote shelters, known as bothies, are among our only genuinely free, communal institutions – and they were won by trespass.
Remembering Che Guevara
Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was born on this day in 1928. An icon of Cuba’s liberation, he committed his life to the cause of the oppressed – and in the process, became one of the twentieth century’s most influential figures.
Five Years of Failing Grenfell
On this day in 2017, 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire. Half a decade on, families are still waiting for justice – and those with the power to prevent a repeat still aren’t willing to use it.
Lewisham’s Rebel Music
In South East London, sound systems have long formed a part of political resistance. A music festival in Lewisham taps into that history.
Civil Service Workers Won’t Be Walked Over
The Tories’ plan to axe 91,000 civil service jobs is only the latest in a long line of attacks proving the contempt in which they hold working people – and making the case for a fightback clearer than ever.
Don’t Let Them Rehabilitate Jeremy Hunt
During six years as health secretary, Jeremy Hunt waged war on workers and ran the NHS into the ground – now, media pundits want us to believe he’s the ‘sensible’ alternative to Boris Johnson.
The Rise of the French Left
In today’s French parliamentary election, a new coalition has united the Left around a bold programme and a common project: to elect Jean-Luc Mélenchon as the country’s prime minister.
Britain Is Funding Apartheid
Britain is ‘upgrading’ its trade agreement with Israel and doing nothing to stop the import of goods made in illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land. It’s a decision to be complicit in Israel’s apartheid regime.