Energy companies are set to extract an extra £1.5 billion from the public this year, more than enough to restore Winter Fuel Payments. The choice is simple: protect corporate profits or keep pensioners warm this winter.
Despite what Keir Starmer claims, there's nothing inevitable about another round of harsh cuts — it is a deliberate decision to avoid confronting the powerful.
A striking play about a young mother’s entry into the armed struggle against apartheid — and her refusal to accept defeat even under torture — will receive its British premiere next week in London.
In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York — and what they can teach a new generation of socialists.
A new protest archive documents the struggles of Latin American migrants in Britain, showing that the most exploited workers can display the most determination in opposing workplace injustice.
In seeking to restore Private Finance Initiatives for the building of new infrastructure, Rachel Reeves is ignoring the realities of a ‘buy now, pay later’ approach — massive profit for corporations, with taxpayers footing the bill.
Despite promising a new approach to trade, the government is pursuing new international agreements that would embolden corporations — and reward some of the world's most oppressive regimes.
Of the 10 most deprived areas of the country, 7 saw far-right riots this month — a sign that the collapse of community and belief in improvement has fed the politics of racism.
In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel's occupation of Palestine.
In 1970s Britain, trade unions responded to the growth of the National Front by mobilising on the streets — a lesson today's workers' movement must rediscover to defeat a new fascist threat.
The government's potential extension of police power and surveillance technologies is no substitute for tackling the root causes of far-right unrest — and risks violating the rights of us all.
As ethnic minority communities brace for more pogroms, the media is discussing the ‘legitimate concerns’ behind the violence — the most hideous, insulting form of victim blaming.