Last June, France’s second city of Marseille voted for a left-wing government after two decades of conservative rule – but maintaining a broad coalition amid Covid-19 financial pressures is proving difficult to manage.
By pumping billions of pounds into quantitative easing programmes, the Bank of England is propping up the asset and stock prices of the rich – in the midst of an unemployment crisis that is hammering workers.
India's farmer protests are mounting a major challenge to the Modi regime - and the violence deployed in response shows that the government senses the threat.
This week, Grace speaks to Stansted 15 activist Ben Smoke about the hostile environment, the power of direct action, and the steady degradation of human rights in Britain.
In December, CWU members in BT Group overwhelmingly rejected the company's plans for mass redundancies. Now they have a message: start real negotiations soon, or we ballot for industrial action.
Jeff Bezos is stepping aside as Amazon's CEO having made a fortune of almost $200 billion. It's an attempt at reputation rehabilitation – but he can't escape the legacy of exploitation he leaves behind.
E. P. Thompson, author of 'The Making of the English Working Class,' was born on this day in 1924. His work reclaimed history for the masses – and displayed a resilient hope in their capacity to remake the world.
In memory of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, we republish Michael Foot's tribute to 'the incorrigible dissenter, the foremost sceptic and exponent of free thought throughout the last half-dozen decades.'
Four years after Rafael Correa's successor Lenín Moreno abandoned the Citizen Revolution for neoliberalism, Ecuador's Left is back. We speak to presidential frontrunner Andrés Arauz ahead of this weekend's election.
Britain is the world's second largest arms exporter, selling £11 billion worth of weapons in 2019 alone – and from the beginning of the war on Yemen, the industry has been directly complicit in a humanitarian disaster.
For years, London has been a playground for international investors while 2.5 million Londoners – 28% of the population – lived in poverty. As Covid-19 slows the influx of capital, it's time to imagine a more equal city.
The British novelist's works, currently being reissued, encompassed witches, communist revolutionaries, and medieval monasteries – but running through them all is her formal invention and socialist politics.