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Labour’s Green Revolution

Labour's plans to invest in a million green jobs can transform the very parts of Britain decimated by Thatcher's economic reforms - and begin to undo the damage of deindustrialisation.

Corbyn Comes Out Swinging

Tomorrow Jeremy Corbyn will launch Labour's manifesto with a firebrand speech that takes on the elite who have rigged our economy – and promises a future worth fighting for.

The Tory Tax Cut Scam

In pledging to freeze corporation tax cuts, Boris Johnson has exposed a decade of Tory arguments that cutting taxes would increase revenue to be little more than a propaganda exercise for the super-rich.

The Free Market is Analogue

Labour's broadband plans would bring Britain's infrastructure into the 21st century while helping workers and businesses - exactly what the free market has failed to do for decades.

Feminism for the 1%

The Wing, London's new private members' club founded by a former Hillary Clinton aide, is the latest chapter in the story of capitalism covering itself in the veneer of women's empowerment.

Keeping Britain White

The roots of the 'Hostile Environment' go a long way back – to the racial categories of the British Empire, and the classing of Jewish refugees as 'aliens'.

The Student Housing Scandal

This weekend's fire in Bolton has exposed the dreadful quality of much of Britain's student accommodation - a forest of plastic towers designed to maximise profit and minimise regulation.

The War on Latin America’s Left

Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa on the coup in Bolivia, the campaign to criminalise Latin America's Left and the need to fight back against the far-right agenda on the continent.