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Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
In this week’s A World to Win, Grace speaks to former Labour Chair Ian Lavery MP and former MP Laura Smith about the party, the impact of Brexit, and the future of the Left after the pandemic.
As Britain passes 100,000 deaths, Boris Johnson says his government did everything it could. But make no mistake: the Covid catastrophe is a consequence of putting profits before public health.
Scottish director Bill Douglas made compelling cinema about his upbringing in a mining village and the Tolpuddle martyrs – but in the decades since his death, it has become far harder to be a working-class filmmaker.
Yesterday’s debate on the EU Working Time Directive confirmed the Tories’ hostility to even the most basic of workers’ rights – but it also proved that the Left needs to demand something better than the status quo.
On Angela Davis’ birthday, we republish her interview with filmmaker Astra Taylor on economic democracy, criminal justice, and the need for a socialist internationalism.
One in five people have gone further into debt during Covid-19, while the richest use their assets to insulate themselves against losses – the end result is economic inequality on steroids.
Sleep is crucial to mental and physical health. As the pandemic has made clear, it’s also a scarce resource — one of which key workers are increasingly deprived, with dire consequences.
As vaccination numbers rise, politicians are preaching an imminent return to normal life — but for the millions living in poverty across the country, normal has long been unbearable.
The government has claimed for months that schools are not hubs of infection, but new data proves their lie: and shows that education workers have double the Covid rate of the wider population.
The degradation of Britain’s bogs through drainage means that they currently emit as much CO2 as 140,000 cars every year. These natural wonders shouldn’t be exploited for private gain, but protected in the common interest.
In the interwar years, the Labour Party used London as an example to the country of what a socialist government could provide – and how to wrest housing from the grip of slum landlords.
There have been many attempts to put a ‘humane’ face on capitalism, but it is a system built on oppression. Racism isn’t a glitch, it’s a feature – both of capitalism’s history and its present.
A recently published ‘secret diary’ provides a rare glimpse into the resentment Britain’s landlords feel towards their tenants – even as many rake in huge profits by charging obscene levels of rent.
This Saturday, the London Short Film Festival screens ‘Finally Got the News’ and ‘Class of Struggle,’ films which capture workers fighting against capitalism and racism in the tumults of the 1960s.
Decades of neoliberal policies have reshaped our world – but perhaps their deepest impact has been to corrode the bonds which underpinned society: replacing the collective with the individual.
Today, a historic UN Treaty comes into force making nuclear weapons illegal. New polling shows a clear majority of British people support nuclear disarmament – but our political class remains committed to annihilation.
For almost two decades at the start of the twentieth century, Austria’s Social Democrats pursued a radical agenda of social progress in the country’s capital – even as dark clouds gathered around them.
In this week’s special episode of A World to Win, Grace is joined by Max Shanly and Sam Gindin to reflect on the life of Marxist thinker and writer Leo Panitch.
Before Covid-19, high tuition fees already deterred working-class people from university. Now, the injustices students face are clear to everyone – and show why we must fight for a free education system.
Rent strikes are taking place right now in 55 of 140 UK universities. It’s the biggest nationwide tenant action in 40 years – and has potential to shift housing dynamics not just for students, but for renters everywhere.