Labour is basing its local election campaign on the party's support for NHS workers, so now is the time to prove it – a new grassroots campaign is calling on Keir Starmer to 'step up' and back a 15% pay rise.
In the 1970s, the Writers' Action Group campaigned for writers to receive royalties from library loans. Their campaign resulted in Public Lending Right – and is a model to follow in the fight for arts funding.
The sugary pop of 1985's 'Our Favourite Shop' by Paul Weller's The Style Council carried a brutal critique of the fantasies and realities of Thatcherism in the South of England during the tumultuous 1980s.
At the height of the post-Stalin 'thaw,' a self-organised group of young British travellers took a bus all the way to the Soviet Union – one of many innovative attempts to dissolve the boundaries of the Cold War.
In the 1970s, 24 construction workers were convicted for their role in a successful strike – the story behind their vindication this week reveals the degree to which the state wages war against the working class.
Today's announcement by Alex Salmond has exposed further cracks in the SNP ahead of the Scottish parliamentary elections – but the real drama of the battle over independence is yet to come.
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the war in Yemen, the world's greatest humanitarian disaster which has left 250,000 dead and millions facing starvation – all of it made possible by British government support.
In Finland, high-quality free school meals are provided to all children between six and sixteen as a public service – instead of handing over cash to rip-off profiteers, Britain should follow its lead.
The Royals' finances, like their powers, are opaque, vague, and poorly understood, but they still receive immense state subsidies – it's time to properly nationalise their lands.
Today, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham announced that the region's buses will be brought back into public control – it's a victory for campaigners and a model the whole country should follow.
Allegations of corruption in the Caller Report are grim, but Labour's failure to oppose the takeover of Liverpool by an equally corrupt Tory government threatens to plunge a left-wing heartland into years of right-wing policies.
Years of central government cutbacks combined with the fallout from Covid have left councils across the country in crisis – with 25 on the brink of bankruptcy and many more unable to provide basic services.