Here to Stay, Here to Fight: The Bengali Squatters Movement
Faced with institutional racism in council housing and violence on the streets, hundreds of Bengali families in 1970s East London decided to squat, taking over entire streets and estates.
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The Miners’ Fight in Their Own Words
Based on the accounts of nearly 150 people directly involved in the 1984-85 miners' strike, Robert Gildea's new book is a powerful retelling of the seismic struggle that has divided Britain for decades.
Can Platform Cooperatives Help Revive the Left?
Platform cooperatives can be real alternatives to the grotesque corporate entities that govern our digital lives — but they are also an opportunity to build new institutions that prove the Left’s merits to millions of people.
How Bus Privatisation Screwed Post-Industrial Britain
Margaret Thatcher’s deregulation of bus services compounded the damage of deindustrialisation by severing transport links and isolating communities. Reversing her legacy means taking buses back into public hands.
When Scotland’s Farmworkers Downed Tools
In 1923, Scottish agricultural workers went on strike over attempts to impose a longer working week — a century later, their struggle remains as relevant as ever.
The World is Failing Palestinian Children
Almost a century after the first declaration of the universal rights of children, Gaza is witnessing infants dying in numbers unseen since the Second World War — a failure which betrays the weaknesses of the original declaration itself.
Zarah Sultana: Stop Arming War Crimes
Israel is using British weapons to massacre Palestinians in Gaza. My Bill would end that.
Benjamin Zephaniah: The People’s Poet
Benjamin Zephaniah was the living embodiment of the principles he championed—justice, equality, and humanity. His is a profound legacy for young people in our communities to emulate and follow, writes Mukhtar Dar, former member of the Birmingham Asian Youth Movement.
London’s Lowest Paid Bus Drivers Are Fighting Back
Hundreds of bus drivers in West London are on strike over a real-terms pay cut and attacks on their terms and conditions. The dispute encapsulates how privatisation has wrecked a vital public service.
Benjamin Zephaniah Encouraged Us to Fight
Benjamin Zephaniah's untimely death reawakened in me the fight against racism those of us brought up as immigrants' children fought in 1970s Birmingham.
Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Look at Gaza — Our Political Class Only Pays Lip Service to Human Rights’
Today marks 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But, as Gaza shows, it is being buried under the rubble along with the human beings whose rights it was written to protect, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
Sustaining the Old Cause in the New Economy
From Covid-19 to the 2008 Crash, recurrent crises are structurally embedded in our increasingly globalised economy. It is time to reject the ineffective immoral economics of old and to build a real alternative.