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By ending the furlough scheme without a proper alternative in the midst of a deep recession, the government is putting millions of jobs at risk – it needs to listen to demands for action before it's too late.
From BooHoo to warehouses and meatpacking factories, the dire working conditions of modern Britain have helped to drive Covid-19 – but you won't hear much about it from the government or media.
Matt Brennan's social history of the drumkit is a reminder of the work and technology in music-making, and a robust defence of the most frequently mocked of musicians.
Nearly ten months into the pandemic, the government has failed to bridge the digital divide – leaving 1.78 million schoolchildren without proper means to learn from home. It is a scandal that could have been avoided.
After a string of recent deals with the NHS, Amazon is now exploring the idea of launching pharmacies in the UK – and its plan to plunder healthcare for profits and data should worry us all.
Mark Fisher passed away five years ago today. In bleak times, his writing showed a new generation that another world was possible – and paved the way for socialist revival.
The global pandemic has pushed between 200 and 500 million people into extreme poverty, while the richest have added $3.9 trillion to their fortunes. Covid-19 is not a crisis impacting us all equally – it's a class war.
Corporate interests want to divert the climate movement into individual solutions, but paper straws and low-energy light bulbs won't save the planet – we need a movement to end the system that's destroying it.
In the wake of Covid-19, Goldsmiths management are forcing through job cuts worth £6 million and a vast increase in workloads – but staff are fighting back against the latest neoliberal reforms to higher education.
The culture war over history isn't the only battle in Britain's museums, there's a fight over job security too – and at the V&A, the latest institution to plan layoffs, the two issues are joined at the hip.
Today, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham announced that the region's buses will be brought back into public control – it's a victory for campaigners and a model the whole country should follow.
Britain's media is owned by a tiny handful of corporations, with three companies controlling 90% of newspaper circulation – if we want a real democracy, it's time to break the power of the media moguls.
The fact that the Tories might win a seat like Hartlepool shows how much Labour has lost touch with its roots – the only way to win the by-election is to fight for working-class communities.
The grim condition of Home Office's asylum accommodation is notorious, but less well-known is the fact that its provision is outsourced to private companies – who profit from those fleeing disaster and war.
The Tories have approved school catch-up funding of as little as £50 per pupil per year, compared to £1,600 in the US and £2,500 in Holland – just the latest policy which will punish poorer kids the most.
Even before the Taliban takeover, 20 years of war in Afghanistan killed thousands and created millions of refugees – Britain has a responsibility to those it helped to displace.