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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
On this week’s show, Grace speaks to Palestinian activist Akram Salhab about the background to Israel’s latest violence, its ongoing policy of dispossession and the growing Palestinian resistance to occupation.
From the Victorian Gothic Wool Exchange to the new ‘fantastic developments’ of the City Exchange, Bradford’s buildings have long been at the heart of British capitalism – and the resistance to it.
The hype around artificial intelligence and its potential to liberate us from work often misses a crucial fact – that AI in its current form depends on low-paid human workers to function in the first place.
Despite rising job vacancies, employers are refusing to increase wages after more than a decade of stagnation – the only alternative to permanent low wages is for workers to unionise.
Next year’s French presidential election looks set to be dominated by Macron and Le Pen, with the Left struggling in the polls – but recent moves towards unity suggest a more progressive path forward might be possible.
Last week’s Ballymurphy verdict vindicated the victims of an atrocity, but the Tory government’s determination to grant impunity for state killings means that justice in Northern Ireland is further away than ever.
Every day, thousands of delivery drivers work without reliable access to toilets and face a fine or the sack if they’re caught pissing in the wrong place – it’s time every worker had access to a public bathroom.
Apple is just the latest Big Tech company to receive praise for its environmental policies – but despite the media narrative, no amount of greenwashing can repair the damage corporations are doing to the planet.
The anti-vax sentiment which has accompanied the Covid vaccine rollout can’t be challenged by science alone – we also need to reckon with the massive inequality that fuels suspicion of power in the first place.
150 years ago today, the Communards of Paris tore down the Vendôme Column. The act symbolised their commitment to break with imperial injustices – and reclaim public space for the masses.
During the Vietnam War the city of Vinh was almost destroyed by US bombing. It was rebuilt with the help of socialists around the world – and today its architecture stands as a monument to that solidarity.
Young people are facing the worst of the pandemic’s long-term fallout – but rather than offer them help, the government has spent the last year using them as a scapegoat for its own repeated failures.
This week, the government once again promised reforms to the social care sector – but it’s clear that the Tories will never deliver the service we need: publicly-owned, universal and with dignity for all its workers.
This week’s standoff between Glasgow’s Southside and the Home Office was an inspiring victory, but it wasn’t spontaneous – it was the product of many years of organising against evictions and deportations.
Today is Nakba Day, when Palestinians mourn expulsion from their homeland in 1948. This year, Israel’s violence has ignited the largest Palestinian uprising in years – and it needs meaningful international solidarity.
As poverty rises in the wake of Covid, the Southampton Social Aid Group is organising in communities, not to offer charity but to build solidarity – renewing the bonds decayed by decades of neoliberalism.
As Manchester becomes increasingly gentrified and local communities are priced out, a new report on the city’s land use has found a pattern of privatisation and sell-offs – aided and abetted by its Labour council.
Last week, Labour lost its majority on Durham County Council for the first time in 100 years. A local councillor who bucked the trend explains why the party needs class politics and a bold social vision to turn the tide.
Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed 119 people so far, including 31 children – a father living in the city writes about the horror of last night’s bombing and calls for action from the international community.
One of the Tories’ biggest wins in the elections came in Tees Valley, where their mayor brought the local airport back into public ownership – a stark reminder of Labour’s own failure to foreground renationalisation.