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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
In Thurrock, the local Tory council is attacking the terms and conditions of binmen and carers only months after they were celebrated as key workers – but instead of taking it lying down, they’re voting to strike.
Actor and longtime activist Danny Glover recently travelled to Alabama to support Amazon workers in their organising efforts – here, he talks about why the fight to unionise is so important in the 21st century.
A new biography of bassist and composer William Parker stresses free jazz’s transformative capacities – and details how his music gave expression to radical black, working-class and anti-imperialist politics.
Since Thatcher’s Transport Act in 1985, Nottingham is one of the few cities whose bus routes have remained in public ownership. The result? A satisfaction rate far above the national average.
Across Britain, thousands of migrants have been forced to face the pandemic with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ – a condition that robs them of even the most basic social safety net, and often places them in danger.
Today is the one year anniversary of pubs closing in Britain. Their absence has diminished communal, cultural and creative life – and offered a reminder of the need to build institutions that sustain our social fabric.
This week, the Scottish government announced a plan to bring ScotRail back under public ownership. But it’s not only in Scotland that privatisation is failing – it’s time to take all of our rail networks back into public hands.
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.
One year ago today, under pressure from trade unions, the government introduced the furlough scheme. It was a good start – but it was never enough, and the failure to build on it guaranteed a pandemic of inequality.
Thousands of British Gas engineers face the sack this month if they don’t accept worse terms and conditions – it is a landmark ‘fire and rehire’ case that has implications for every worker in Britain.
Ten years ago today, NATO forces intervened in the Libyan civil war with promises to liberate the country – the disaster they left behind offers a lesson on why imperialist wars must be resisted.
This week, the government promised a ‘revolution’ on England’s buses without committing to reverse privatisation – but the real revolution we need to see in our transport system is public ownership.
This year’s Pritzker Prize, the highest award in architecture, went to Lacaton and Vassal: French architects who rejected estate demolition and instead renovated public housing – keeping residents in place.
The Sri Lankan government’s war on the Tamil community saw up to 70,000 civilians killed in 2009, but they weren’t acting alone – Britain sold weapons to the regime even as the world read reports of slaughter.
Pioneering socialist William Morris on the Paris Commune and its legacy as a “great tragedy which definitely and irrevocably elevated the cause of Socialism.”
Barricades only played a part in the final week of the Paris Commune, but their imagery came to define the struggle – as the last line of defence for a revolutionary democratic experiment.
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.
In Manchester, bus drivers who were feted as ‘key workers’ only months ago have been told to accept worse conditions or face the sack – with the company even offering an effective bribe to force the deal through.
150 years ago today, in the jaws of defeat in war, a revolutionary militia took over the city of Paris and began an experiment in democratic government – the Commune they built continues to inspire radicals today.
After celebrating key workers during the pandemic, BT’s management is pushing through redundancies and site closures – now is the time for the public to get behind the workers and their union.