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Reds Deserve Better

The proposed demolition of Old Trafford to build a corporate theme park that could have been designed by Homer Simpson is another sad example of billionaires kidnapping football — and destroying something special about Manchester — in the name of profit.

End the Privatised Water Scam

Thames Water, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, is the poster child for failed privatisation. Labour's refusal to even consider public ownership for this vital utility puts ideology above reason.

Making More Mick Lynches

Mick Lynch's time in the RMT leadership is a lesson for a Left often scared of itself: strength comes from building confidence in workers, confronting lying politicians, and showing no respect for the farce that is the 'media game'.

Neukölln Dreaming

Rejecting calls to tack right on immigration, Die Linke made impressive gains in last month’s German elections by cultivating a new form of radical politics that pushes working-class communities – and an ethic of ‘revolutionary kindness’ – to the fore.

Guns Before Butter

Running a government where starving children and freezing pensioners is the price to pay for funding endless wars, Keir Starmer's only legacy will be a more dangerous and unequal world.

From Melancholia to Power

With influences as wide as Freud and The Jam, Cynthia Cruz's ideas analyse neoliberalism's disappearing of the working class in everyday politics and cultural life — and how, in recognising that, class politics can be rebuilt.

Feeding the Flames

More than simply keeping picket lines going, providing food to workers in dispute is a form of collectivism that has shaped the trade union movement.

Cooking on the Breadline

Low pay and poor conditions in the British food industry leave thousands of those who feed us too poor to feed themselves — but some are pushing back and organising for better.