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When the government announced their plans to reopen schools without consultation, Boris Johnson expected to be able to ignore the concerns of teachers – instead he has breathed new life into their trade unions.
Recent years have seen an explosion in union activity on university campuses, with two major strike waves against neoliberal reforms – but if workers are to win concessions, they will need to build from the grassroots.
The Covid-19 pandemic is causing chaos in the housing market – but whether it leads to a property crash, a deepening crisis for renters, or even a respite in rising costs remains contested.
Contrary to Boris Johnson's claims that it does not edit or censor the past, the British state has sought at every turn to conceal the truth about the empire – including destroying vast records of its crimes.
Today marks 10 years since the first Coalition austerity budget. The last decade showed that austerity can be worse for the economy than any recession – but the government is determined to ignore the lesson.
Unison general secretary candidate Roger McKenzie on his plans to revive organising in the union, grow its activist base, transform the social care sector – and defend Labour's pro-worker policies.
Corporate management tactics – and the mantra to 'do more with less' – claimed to be cutting waste from the NHS, but what they actually cut was resilience and its ability to deal with crises like Covid-19.
Under capitalism, investment in new technologies only takes place when it's profitable for corporate interests – if we want innovation to benefit society at large, we need a socialist system.
The crisis Britain faces this winter required an ambitious package of support – from an evictions ban to liveable sick pay and Universal Credit reform. Instead, we got half measures at the last minute.
Last month, Donald Trump pardoned war criminals convicted of killing 14 Iraqi civilians. It's a reminder that violence is not the exception for politics in the West, but the norm – and is usually directed at the world's poorest people.
North Ayrshire's council is undertaking a bold experiment in municipal socialism – pursuing transformative policies on housing, the environment and workers' rights which point the way towards a different kind of local government.
The Paris Commune of 1871 was still fresh in the memory by the time of Ireland's Easter Rising – and, for 1916 leader James Connolly, its radical politics and urban warfare offered an example to follow.
Adrien Lejeune was the last Communard to pass away in 1942. His life became the subject of myth and legend – and a symbol of the Parisian workers who fought to establish a radical democracy in their city.
As of today, the United States has distributed 15 times more vaccines than the entire continent of Africa – hoarding by the Developed World threatens the global Covid response and will deepen inequality for years to come.
As Britain emerges from lockdown, the government is projecting an image of optimism – but inequality was at crisis levels long before Covid-10 and poverty can be as bad for public health as any pandemic.
In the 20th century, Brick Lane's migrant communities fought efforts by the far-right to drive them out. Now, amid plans for a shopping mall and rising rents, they face a different enemy: gentrification.