Corporate interests want to divert the climate movement into individual solutions, but paper straws and low-energy light bulbs won't save the planet – we need a movement to end the system that's destroying it.
Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez wasn't just a key player in the botched European Super League – he is also a voracious capitalist, profiteering from outsourcing and privatisation at the expense of the Spanish public.
Pensions now account for over 40% of all wealth in Britain, but pro-market reforms under Margaret Thatcher individualised the system – leaving what should be a vast store of public wealth in private hands.
After 20 years and an estimated 200,000 deaths, American and British troops are due to withdraw from Afghanistan this year – but the destruction, surveillance and prejudice the war created will endure for a long time yet.
In the latest episode of A World to Win, Grace Blakeley is joined by Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book 'Planet on Fire' – and how we can organise against climate disaster.
Nina Simone, who died on this day in 2003, is often remembered for her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement – but she was also a socialist who saw revolution as the path to true equality.
Often seen as an outlier in British politics, Enoch Powell was in fact deeply influential in the development of the Conservative Party – and laid the intellectual foundations for the Thatcherite project which followed him.
Unwilling to accept mismanagement under Mike Ashley or a Saudi takeover, Newcastle United fans are organising an alternative – a Supporters' Trust which aims to buy part of the club when it next falls into crisis.
Today's right-wingers cast free speech as a distinctly British value, but they have precious little to say about the history of the Empire – which mounted a brutal campaign to deny these rights to colonised peoples.
We can't rely on the traditional institutions to save us from the European Super League. FIFA, UEFA and the Premier League have all failed football – it's time for the fans to take ownership over the game again.
The European Super League is football's equivalent of a luxury skyscraper – which is fitting, because the game's super-wealthy owners are complicit in gentrifying the very communities which helped to build it.
The Greensill scandal isn't a story about a few bad apples, it reveals how British capitalism works – politicians using state power to enrich private corporations while the public picks up the tab.