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Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
Unison general secretary candidate Roger McKenzie on his plans to revive organising in the union, grow its activist base, transform the social care sector – and defend Labour’s pro-worker policies.
The ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ campaign won’t save jobs, but it will hand over millions of pounds in subsidies to major corporations – and set the ball rolling on Rishi Sunak’s leadership campaign.
After years of allowing self-employment to replace secure and well-paid work, the government promptly abandoned the self-employed during this crisis – for the millions left behind, it’s time to organise for better.
In today’s Scottish Highers, working-class young people found their results disproportionately downgraded because of their schools’ history – locking in the educational inequality that plagues the system.
Tony Merrick, who passed away last week, was a giant of the British trade union movement who stood up to the state’s attacks on workers and was jailed with the Pentonville Five for defending his class.
Recent decades have seen inequality grow across the West. The Covid-19 crisis looks likely to continue the trend, but it doesn’t have to be that way – governments could choose to fight it instead.
In his centenary year, we salute Edwin Morgan – a Scottish socialist whose modernist poetry covered the distance from Glasgow to Saturn.
Brazil’s Lava Jato investigation which jailed Lula was lauded by anticorruption campaigners in the West – but its legacy is the most corrupt president in the country’s history: Jair Bolsonaro.
Britain has one of the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, but rather than face its failures the Tory government is turning to an old trick – scapegoating Muslims and the marginalised.
Researcher Joy White speaks about her new book ‘Terraformed – Young Black Lives in the Inner City,’ which outlines the deliberate marginalisation of working class black youth in the London borough of Newham.
The late theorist Erik Olin Wright’s final book holds crucial lessons about which strategies belong to the past and which ones can build the bridge to a socialist future.
Billionaires have seen their fortunes skyrocket during Covid-19 while workers face wage cuts and layoffs – if we want to build a more equal society, we have to take them on.
Refuse workers and street cleansers in Bexleyheath won a landmark victory last week – increased pay, sick pay and reinstatement of sacked members – after a campaign which saw union density rise from 25 to 95%.
With many forced to work from home since Covid-19, companies have increasingly used the opportunity to implement surveillance technologies and attack conditions – but workers have also found ways to fight back.
Labour MP Dawn Butler on the racist abuse that forced her to close her office, encouraging her party to do more in response to Black Lives Matter – and why Met Police chief Cressida Dick should resign.
Post-independence African leaders had dreams of breaking from Western control and transforming their societies – but then the World Bank and IMF drove the continent towards neoliberalism.
With the Tories in power for a decade, English liberals have increasingly projected their aspirations onto ‘progressive’ Scotland – but from economic policy to Covid-19, its government is not a model to follow.
By shifting the blame for obesity onto individuals, the government is covering up its own contributions to the structural causes – from shutting leisure centres to supporting low wages and longer working hours.
Britain and the world face overlapping crises of historic proportions. Only the Left can meet the challenges of our time but that means urgently organising around a popular programme.
With unemployment numbers rising rapidly, and the end of the furlough approaching, trade unions are the last line of defence for thousands of workers trying to save their livelihoods.