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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.
Welsh Labour’s governing agreement with Plaid Cymru includes plans to expand free school meals, work toward a National Care Service and fight the housing crisis – proof that there is an alternative to Tory misrule.
The extortionate cost of energy bills will see millions going without heating in Britain this winter – a reminder of the avoidable scandal of fuel poverty.
Independent press Semiotext(e) helped to break theory out of the confines of academia – and make it a tool for everyday people to deepen their understanding of popular culture.
People from the Global South are dying while fleeing crises they didn’t create. As climate catastrophe intensifies, we desperately need an alternative to Europe’s brutal border regimes.
The US Supreme Court is considering a case with the potential to overturn Roe v. Wade – only one part of a global right-wing campaign which aims to undo decades of progress on reproductive rights.
Thatcher’s destruction of British industry was so damaging that even the CBI has now attacked it. If Boris Johnson really wants a ‘levelling-up’ economy, only unprecedented state investment can make it happen.
Last month, Dortmund fans voted to prevent their club changing its name, playing home games outside the city or leaving the Bundesliga – a reminder that fan power can stand up to modern football.
Britain’s shamefully low sick pay forces workers to choose between self-isolation and paying the bills – if the government is serious about tackling Omicron, it needs to raise it.
This week, Adele Walton speaks with Asad Rehman, director of War on Want, about how colonial legacies reproduce global inequality, and the need for an anticolonial climate justice movement.
For months, medical experts warned that leaving large areas of the world unvaccinated would make new variants inevitable – but for Big Pharma, profits come before public health.
The Bank of England is eyeing an interest rate hike to fight inflation – a policy that will further curb workers’ bargaining power in the middle of a cost of living crisis.
New research has confirmed a longstanding issue: the British media is institutionally and enthusiastically Islamophobic – with grim consequences for Muslim people across the country.
From criminalising aid workers to barbed-wire prisons and pushbacks at sea, Greece’s right-wing government is waging a war on migrants – and providing a model that Priti Patel is keen to follow.
In 2016, the Colombian government and FARC signed a landmark agreement to end decades of conflict – but five years on, President Duque’s reactionary politics are putting peace at risk.
Boris Johnson’s rail plans were always fatally flawed – if his government really wanted to level up, it would build a modern train system connecting communities across the whole country.
Preston Bus Station isn’t just an iconic brutalist structure, it’s a reminder of a time when planning was bold – and public transport infrastructure was a symbol of the future.
Friedrich Engels was born on this day in 1820, but he was forged as a socialist by Salford’s industrial revolution – two centuries later, city mayor Paul Dennett writes about Engels’ enduring legacy.
A new book explores the legend surrounding the disappearance of one-time socialist MP Victor Grayson – and offers a stark lesson in the political trajectories of those who leave the Left.
Right-wingers use today’s NHS shortcomings to argue that a public health system doesn’t work – but its failings stem from decades of pro-market reforms.
Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Under’ gives passionate expression to the experience of young, left-wing northern England – combining rousing rock with lyrics decrying the dark impact of austerity.