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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
The government has launched a National Tutoring Programme to help students ‘catch-up’ with Covid lost time – but it is far too little to compensate for the massive inequalities that access to tutoring introduce into our education system.
Last night local parties across Britain – from Edinburgh to Newcastle, Bolton, Bristol and Liverpool – passed motions opposing Keir Starmer’s decision to deny Jeremy Corbyn the Labour whip in the broadest rebellion against his leadership to date.
The government’s latest PPE scandal shows what outsourcing is really about – far from increasing efficiency, it is a machine for corruption which turns public services into cash cows for the well-connected.
Western economies were suffering anaemic growth even before the Covid-19 slowdown, and they won’t recover with a vaccine alone – we need bold government intervention to avoid another lost decade.
On this week’s show, Grace Blakeley is joined by Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham to discuss how the government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis has punished the North.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how crucial workers are to the economy, but also how weak their protections are at work – only one policy can level the playing field: sectoral collective bargaining.
80% of Pfizer vaccine stocks have been bought by countries representing just 14% of the world’s population. The power of Big Pharma and the wealth of the developed world threatens the global fight against Covid-19.
The weeks since the presidential election have seen concerted attacks on progressives from the Democratic Party elite – but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s refusal to be bowed has offered a rallying point for the US Left.
A recently republished book edited by E. P. Thompson chronicles the story of British socialist volunteers who travelled to post-war Yugoslavia to assist in the construction of a railroad from Šamac to Sarajevo.
A vaccine might bring Covid-19 under control, but it won’t undo the damage to the economy – only radical policies can avoid another decade of wage stagnation and rising inequality.
In 2016, the UN said austerity had created a ‘human catastrophe’ for Britain’s disabled — but the last decade has also seen unprecedented organising to fight back.
The suspension of the chair and co-secretary of Bristol West CLP over a motion supporting Jeremy Corbyn is a calculated attack on Labour members’ rights and party democracy.
Studies show that up to 1 in 3 people might refuse to take a Covid-19 vaccine. This problem must be overcome – but it can’t be addressed by writing off large swathes of the population as anti-vaxxers.
The story of the Greater London Authority’s move away from its purpose-built headquarters to a docklands business park sums up the relationship between local government and developers that defines the capital city.
Recent weeks have seen increased coverage of the mental health fallout from Covid-19 – but even before the pandemic, Britain’s mental health services were underfunded, understaffed and at crisis point.
After going on rent strike and tearing down fences on campus, students at the University of Manchester have begun an occupation. Their aim: to confront a university sector which sees them as little more than cash cows.
In the key swing state of Michigan, grassroots mobilising efforts by Rashida Tlaib and progressive activists were crucial to boosting voter turnout – and overturning one of Trump’s landmark 2016 victories.
In this week’s A World to Win, Grace speaks to Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists and scourge of the tax-avoiding corporate elite at Davos, about human nature, capitalism and the 24-hour news cycle.
The 1970s saw seismic changes in Britain’s cities, as new ideas about class, crime and public space reshaped the built environment – and bred both resignation and resistance in its council estates.
In recent months, No Holding Back has spoken to thousands of Labour activists in communities left behind by deindustrialisation. Their message is clear: the party must rebuild at its grassroots.