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Ellie Whittaker

Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.

For Bread and Roses

Paul W. Fleming, newly-elected leader of artists’ union Equity, writes about the fight against precarity and job losses in the sector – and how organising the creative industries can breathe life into the labour movement.

NHS For Sale

By refusing to keep the NHS off the table in trade negotiations with the US, the Tory government has sent a clear message – they are open to selling off our health service at the right price.

No Time to Wallow in the Mire

Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s history of Los Angeles in the 1960s can sometimes feel as long as the decade itself, but is a monumental and moving tribute to a heroic, violently suppressed moment of possibility.

Remembering Michael Brooks

Yesterday, Michael Brooks passed away. He was a pioneer of left-wing media whose contributions to the cause of socialism and generosity to his comrades and friends will outlast him.

Remembering Frantz Fanon

Anti-colonial revolutionary and theorist Frantz Fanon was born on this day in 1925. His life and work continue to inspire and empower a new generation of dreamers and fighters.

Ignoring the Gathering Storm

With 1 in 3 working families a payslip away from homelessness and a wave of layoffs on the horizon, Britain faces a major economic crisis – but you wouldn’t know it from the government’s policy response.

The Rise of ‘Red’ New York

Recent years have seen a string of victories for left-wing insurgents in New York, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Jamaal Bowman – but what does it mean for socialist politics in America?

Planning the Future

Covid-19 has shown once again that the market can’t rise to the challenges we face – if the world is to fare better with the coming climate crisis, we need to replace the market with a system of democratic planning.

Leopold’s Reckoning

Decades after he oversaw a brutal regime that mutilated and murdered millions of Congolese, King Leopold’s legacy is finally being challenged in Belgium – but there won’t be justice until a debt is repaid to Congo itself.

Class Politics After Corbyn

The failure of Corbynism was its inability to cut through in working-class communities. The risk of a Starmer-led Labour Party is that it abandons that effort altogether.

Re-skilling the State

Decades of anti-public service ideology has seen the state’s capacity diminished through waves of cuts and outsourcing – if it is to play an active role in the economy again, it must be rebuilt.

Beating the Colour Bar on the Railways

On this day in 1966, British Rail scrapped the colour bar at Euston Station after a campaign by a black worker, Asquith Xavier, and his union – the win paved the way for the Race Relations Act just two years later.

The Recovery We Need

The Tories’ recent announcements won’t be enough to prevent a deep economic crisis – we need a bold alternative from the Left that argues for investment in jobs, public ownership and democratisation.

When the Unemployed Fought Back

In the 1920s and ’30s, the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement mobilised thousands to resist the indignities of unemployment. As we enter another economic crisis, we should learn from their fight.