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Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
Britain’s weekly #ClapforCarers is one of the largest civic mobilisations in the country’s history – but whether its legacy is cover for government failures or a renewed collective spirit remains open to question.
The coronavirus crisis will increase the flow of wealth upwards, with even 45% of furlough scheme funds going to rent and debt payments – if we are to avoid deeper inequality, we need to tax the wealthy.
At a time when collective solutions were needed to a collective problem, Dominic Cummings put his own interests before those of society – that sums up the capitalist ethos, argues Grace Blakeley.
On this day in 1971, Britain adopted the Misuse of Drugs Act. Almost 50 years later, it’s time to look beyond prohibition – but the solution won’t be found in a for-profit recreational drugs industry.
In the years after World War Two, Britain’s fascist movement began to build again – a new book tells the story of how a group of young Jews organised to beat them off the streets.
The Covid-19 pandemic is causing chaos in the housing market – but whether it leads to a property crash, a deepening crisis for renters, or even a respite in rising costs remains contested.
To change Momentum, we need to understand the roots of its problems – a weak socialist politics which neither empowered members nor stood up to the challenges of the Corbyn era, argues Max Shanly.
As furloughed workers, the self-employed and those stuck at home start to lose track of time, it’s important not to lose track of what has happened – and who is responsible.
Momentum NCG candidate Andrew Scattergood explains why he’s backing Forward Momentum in the elections – and why democracy is the path to achieving unity on the Left.
For the countries of the Global South, Covid-19 will be followed by an economic crisis and the fallout from climate change – if deeper global inequality is to be avoided, they’ll need solidarity.
From isolation to increased costs, cuts in supports and lack of basics like physical therapy, disabled children are finding their lives dramatically harder under coronavirus – with little help forthcoming from the government.
When tech giants offer to help with contact tracing apps, they aren’t being altruistic – they’re embedding themselves in critical infrastructure like healthcare in ways that will be difficult to reverse.
If Momentum is to play a role in rebuilding the Left, it needs to be radically overhauled – and to become an organisation which has a foot in every working-class community in Britain, argues Matt Kerr.
To hold off Sinn Féin, Ireland’s dominant right-wing parties Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have agreed to formal coalition for the first time – but it remains to be seen if they can rescue the country’s declining establishment.
The SNP’s decision to side with the Tories to vote down a rent freeze makes clear that tenants in Scotland can’t rely on the political establishment – the only solution is to get organised and fight back.
The story of Poly Styrene, as told in a new biography, intersperses the dayglo with a more quotidian grey.
Blair, Blunkett, Adonis, Johnson. Recent days have seen an avalanche of attacks by prominent Labour figures on teachers’ unions – emboldened by the party leadership’s muted support for their cause, argues Grace Blakeley.
NHS workers who needed PPE during this crisis were forced to rely on an inefficient network of private providers which failed to produce in time – it was yet another disaster brought about by privatisation.
Recent years have seen an explosion in union activity on university campuses, with two major strike waves against neoliberal reforms – but if workers are to win concessions, they will need to build from the grassroots.
Boris Johnson’s government is dominated by landlords, many of whom own multiple properties and make a fortune from rent. It isn’t a fluke that they support policies which harm tenants – it’s class politics.