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During Covid, fossil fuel companies saw tanking oil prices as a sign to finally invest in renewables. Now they're making bumper profits, they're rolling back those initiatives – because for them, cash always comes before the planet.
Amid the worst squeeze on living standards in decades, Keir Starmer's Labour has a historic opportunity to transform this country – but yesterday's speech shows he's more concerned with staying in the establishment's good books.
In 1971, the Tories introduced landmark anti-worker legislation — but trade unions refused to obey and ultimately forced the government to back down.
Real estate CEO Tim Gurner sparked outrage this week after calling for a rise in unemployment to put workers in their place. We should be grateful for his comments — they reveal what the ruling class really thinks.
With humour, warmth and delicate beauty, Shane MacGowan's lyricism profoundly shaped the culture of England's Irish diaspora — and was never afraid to denounce injustice, no matter how unpopular this made him with the powerful.
The suffering caused by Margaret Thatcher's policies is often justified with the argument that they saved Britain from ruin – but decades after she left office, it's clear that she left the economy weaker and more unequal.
For decades, Gerry Healy was the leading figure of the British Trotskyist movement — a serial rapist, bully and liar who used his authoritarian sect to facilitate his crimes.
The Left tends to celebrate the crowd only in limited and conditional ways. A new book by Dan Hancox aims to reclaim the mass gathering for the 2020s.
Mick Lynch's time in the RMT leadership is a lesson for a Left often scared of itself: strength comes from building confidence in workers, confronting lying politicians, and showing no respect for the farce that is the 'media game'.
The modernist architects of interwar Eastern Europe were committed to making architecture an instrument of social transformation.
Today would have been Tony Benn's 95th birthday. We remember his contributions to the Labour Party, democracy and socialism.
For anyone serious about socialist politics or building community power, the Labour Party remains a vital field of struggle – whether we like it or not.
Today would have been Tony Benn's 95th birthday. We remember his contributions to the Labour Party, democracy and socialism.
A Corbyn-led Labour government would be the biggest opportunity to reset Britain's economy in a generation. But are we ready for it?
In the 1920s and '30s, Jack Lang served as Premier of New South Wales and introduced sweeping social reforms. His populist, working-class coalition is derided today – but remains a highpoint in Australian politics.
The reforms proposed by Labour’s democracy review will open our party up to the working people it was made to represent.