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Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Defence was revealed to be underreporting civilian casualties in Yemen. It’s no surprise – the British government is complicit in a humanitarian disaster, and is trying to cover its tracks.
Priti Patel is considering plans to halve the minimum prison sentence required for deportation – the latest attack on migrants from a government determined to expand the hostile environment at every opportunity.
As many of Labour’s post-industrial heartlands drifted rightward, Liverpool remained solidly red. The reason is clear: working-class community organising.
The government has decided to keep nurseries open – despite scientific advice – to prevent many private outlets from closing. There is an alternative: publicly-funded childcare and early childhood education.
From dodgy bailouts to crony outsourcing, sweetheart deregulations and welfare profiteering, Covid-19 has provided plenty of opportunities for disaster capitalists – and they’ve been only too happy to take them.
The prefabricated homes built across Britain in the 1940s were more than just emergency housing – they were a rapid response to crises of overcrowding and poor accommodation that were remarkably similar to today.
The privatisation of British Gas has led to attacks on workers’ rights and a bad deal for consumers – essential services like energy supply should be owned and run in the public interest, not for corporate profit.
In the 1980s, CEOs in Britain earned 20 times average worker salaries. Today, it is 120 times. This explosion in income inequality is not an accident – it is the direct result of policies pushed by our political and economic elites.
This week we saw the natural culmination of Trumpism: a politics of pure conflict, which harnesses anger without a project of transformation, a revolt against a state of affairs which in reality it seeks to preserve.
Neither independence nor unionism can solve the deep social problems that plague Scotland, only a socialist challenge to the political establishment can do that – and Labour must offer it in the Holyrood elections.
As rich countries stockpile Covid vaccine doses and protect the interests of Big Pharma while poor countries are forced to wait years for treatments, it’s never been clearer how global injustice threatens all of our health.
In the latest episode of A World to Win, Grace speaks to Jacobin publisher Bhaskar Sunkara about the far-right mob which stormed the Capitol building this week – and what it all means for the future of the US Left.
More than 50% of students are struggling with mental health problems since Covid, according to an NUS survey – but the failures that led to this point go beyond the pandemic to the corporate nature of our universities.
Trumpism is not an isolated phenomenon: right-wing radicalisation is happening across the world. In Britain, it has already led to a steep increase in domestic terrorism – and worse could be next, unless we fight it now.
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.
Today, GMB members at British Gas begin five days of action in response to their employer’s threat to ‘fire and rehire’ thousands of workers on worse pay and conditions. It’s the biggest gas strike since the 1970s.
Yesterday’s violence in Washington D.C. was a warning about the empowerment of the far-right under Donald Trump – to prevent more serious threats to democracy in the future, the US Left needs to mobilise now.
Ben Fletcher is not a household name today, but in the early 20th century he helped to break down racial barriers in America’s labour movement – and build an IWW that threatened to overthrow the ruling class.
New research shows that two in three youth centres are on the verge of closure. With youth unemployment also skyrocketing, Britain’s government is failing young people – and the consequences are likely to be severe.
Nearly ten months into the pandemic, the government has failed to bridge the digital divide – leaving 1.78 million schoolchildren without proper means to learn from home. It is a scandal that could have been avoided.