The Fight for a New Chile
Chile’s protest movement is the largest in a generation and it doesn’t just want economic reforms – it wants to overturn the legacy of the Pinochet dictatorship.
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Ellie Whittaker
Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
The Great Unravelling
The United Kingdom is unlikely to survive in its current form. Now is the time for socialists to imagine what comes next.
The Desert Parliament
Soldiers during the Second World War were determined they would not return to the same Britain they left. So they set up their own parliament.
How the CWU Beat the Anti-Strike Laws
In 2016, the Tories introduced ballot thresholds designed to make nationwide strike action impossible. Earlier this month the CWU smashed them – here, they tell us how.
Canada’s Left Kingmakers
With Justin Trudeau losing his majority, Canada’s left-wing New Democratic Party could hold sway in the new parliament – just after its most socialist campaign in decades.
The Fight for the NHS
Boris Johnson wants to sell our NHS off to US corporations. Labour must respond by rebuilding the public health service – and tackling its inequalities.
Steal as Much as You Can
An interview with Nathalie Olah about class, culture, television, home improvement, bad taste and revolt.
Fighting Racism on Hull’s Taxi Ranks
Taxi drivers in Hull experienced a wave of racist abuse, abetted by local taxi firms. So they turned to the union.
Life After Debt
Deanne Ferguson, Labour’s candidate for Morley and Outwood, on how debt nearly destroyed her life and why the party needs to wage a campaign against debt collection agencies.
Chile’s Class Rage
In Chile, a transit fare hike has produced a national protest wave against austerity – and the most severe state repression since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Why the Left Came Back
The media treats Corbyn’s emergence as an anomaly. In fact, it is the product of decades of failed economic policies.
Ecuador’s Popular Revolt
Recent weeks have seen an unprecedented wave of protests against the Ecuadorian government and its neoliberal reforms – as well as brutal repression of the Left.
Boris’ Deal is No Left Exit
Socialist critics of the EU won’t achieve a left-wing exit through a Tory deal which copperfastens neoliberal policies, argues Costas Lapavitsas.
Winning the General Election
Boris Johnson can be beaten. We should have every confidence that we can do it. Fundamentally, the ground is slipping away from the Tories. And if we can drag them onto our economic terrain — on climate change, and ownership — we can win.
Behind Royal Mail’s Attack on Workers
Gig economy profiteers, Tory privatisers and corporate union busters: meet the Royal Mail bosses leading the attack on the company’s workers.
Lives in Sound
New books by veteran music writers Ian Penman and David Toop show that, at its best, there is no higher category than music journalism.
Drawing Home
A new investigation reveals the true story behind one of the most famous photographs of the Second World War, and the socialist photographer who captured it.
Backing Evo
Ahead of this weekend’s Bolivian election, we publish an open letter from trade unionists, politicians and civil society figures supporting Evo Morales and opposing US intervention.
Boris’ Bad Deal
Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal tears up protections for working people and opens the door for US-style deregulation. Labour should bury it, before it buries us.
The Ebbs and Flows of Multicultural Britain
Janet Mendelsohn’s photographs of Balsall Heath, Birmingham, showed a new multicultural country coming into being. How do they look fifty years later?