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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.
The labour shortage in hospitality has bosses panicking – it’s the perfect time to unionise and force one of modern capitalism’s most exploitative sectors to overhaul the way it treats its workers.
We can take action today to stop the next pandemic, from preventing environmental destruction to properly funding health systems across the world – but there is little sign that governments are willing to do it.
Yesterday, Xiomara Castro was inaugurated as the new socialist president of Honduras, a little over a decade after a US-backed coup against Manuel Zelaya – it’s the latest sign that Latin America’s left is on the rise.
The Met’s intervention into the Sue Gray report should come as no surprise: cover-ups are in its DNA.
In August 1944, Auschwitz prisoners smuggled a camera into the gas chambers and took four shaky photographs of the horrors happening there. Their defiant act of documentation shaped our understanding of history forever.
The establishment often claims cricket has a ‘spirit’ that transcends the class divide. But from the sport’s early hostility to working class radicalism to the sell-off of fields under Thatcher, class is key to understanding its history.
Along with banning protest and engaging in voter suppression, the government’s attempt to dilute the Human Rights Act is the latest proof that the only right Tories care about is their right to screw you over.
Gabriel Boric’s Cabinet is Chile’s most left-wing in decades, but remains a compromise with the moderate forces which dominate Parliament – a sign that the fight against neoliberalism is only beginning.
The story of the 1948 massacre at Tantura exposes the brutality of the Nakba – and the coordinated effort to deny Palestinian accounts of atrocities in favour of Israel’s whitewashed narratives.
Later today, a committee will vote on new anti-union measures including levies and severe fines – it’s part of the government’s campaign to deter workers from organising amid the cost of living crisis.
The American poet and essayist Maggie Nelson explores climate change, art, sexuality, and liberty in her new book ‘On Freedom’.
The pressures facing the agricultural sector can’t be solved by one-off tricks that entrench corporate power. Instead, we need solutions with collective ownership at the core.
Faced with rising poverty and the threat of automation, the Welsh government is rolling out a Universal Basic Income pilot – its aim is to show that bold policies can transform our broken economy.
It’s hard to resist privatisation or gentrification when the council housing being defended is falling apart – we need to fight for high-quality public housing that really improves lives.
Recent years have seen global corporations embrace racial justice causes for PR purposes – but the economic system they preside over continues to ensure Africa is exploited for the benefit of the super-rich.
Twee is back, and the subject of a thousand thinkpieces – but few have explored the subculture’s radical roots in feminism, punk and the fight against Margaret Thatcher.
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse is part of a much broader ‘immersive entertainment industry,’ which hopes to atomise popular culture – and force society to submit to its senses.
Workers at Macmerry bars in Glasgow and Dundee faced years of underpayment, unsafe conditions and impossible hours – but then they joined a trade union, and the tide in the workplace began to change.
The launch of a 4-day week pilot scheme has seen hundreds of organisations express an interest – it’s just the latest sign that a shorter working week could be the way to fix our broken economy.
Labour’s decision to welcome former Tory MP Christian Wakeford is dubious at best – but if it comes alongside a refusal to readmit Jeremy Corbyn, it will be a sign of a party abandoning its values.