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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.
In the Assange extradition appeal, the British and American establishments are fighting journalists’ unions from across the world – and their mission is simple: to make effective scrutiny of the powerful impossible.
The New Labour years were a historic opportunity to break with Thatcher’s legacy – instead, they left her economic architecture in place and locked Britain into a market nightmare.
After ScotRail workers voted to strike during COP26, management returned to the table with a pay rise, a bonus and a promise to keep overtime premiums – proving once again that collective action can win.
People in the Global South are losing their lives to climate change right now. The rich countries dominating COP26 could help – but their vicious vaccine hoarding proves they won’t.
Scottish socialist stalwart Jennie Lee was born on this day in 1904. Inspired by the mining community she was raised in, Lee’s life was spent fighting for working people – a fight which included co-founding Tribune.
Recent attempts to rebrand NATO and soften its image can’t disguise the truth – that it’s a war machine designed to project US power across the world.
In the 1940s, Hitler and Goebbels compiled a list of artists they considered ‘divinely gifted’ with the power to envision Germany’s future. Today, the work of those artists remains more prevalent than we might think.
Despite making millions in pandemic profits, Weetabix is trying to force its engineers to accept longer hours and almost £5,000 less per year in pay – just the latest example of the corporate war on workers.
At COP26, global elites are delivering sermons about fixing a system built in their interests – but the only way to avoid climate disaster is to build a movement that stops their profiteering from killing the planet.
This week marks 65 years since the Suez Crisis, which catapulted the popularity of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser – and became symbolic of his large and complicated legacy.
In recent years, YouTube has become a bastion of right-wing commentators and subcultures – but the growing presence of anti-capitalist channels suggests the platform is far from a political monopoly.
Beyond a few exceptions, the government’s much-touted transition to a ‘high wage economy’ has yet to materialise – and without stronger trade union powers, it never will.
A new book on the pioneering but deeply eccentric socialist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich is full of lessons on the links between the body, trauma, and politics.
Critics of capitalism have long associated the system with vampires, zombies, and werewolves – and seen its overthrow as the way to free humanity from horror.
Five years ago today, the government ruled out a public inquiry into the violence directed at miners in Orgreave – it was just the latest coverup by an establishment that is afraid of the truth.
50 years ago, the publication of an English translation of ‘Selections from the Prison Notebooks’ catapulted Antonio Gramsci onto the world stage – and gave Marxism its most influential post-war intellectual.
New statistics show that youth homelessness increased 40% in the past five years – but the increase is not inevitable: it’s directly attributable to government policies.
There is no fully integrated public transport system in any British city outside of London – but Glasgow has created one for a fortnight, for diplomats only, during COP26.
Two new books on the Miners’ Strike reveal the solidarities that existed across the divides of today’s ‘culture war’ – and the ongoing effects of the defeat on the communities at the heart of it.
This week’s Budget increased Covid catch-up spending for education, but only to a third of what experts say schools need – proof once again that this government doesn’t care about kids.