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Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
While the Tories claim that NHS privatisation is over, healthcare profiteers Virgin are embedding themselves in local structures – another sign that the erosion of our public system is continuing at pace.
Four new books about the life and works of Edward Said remind us of his towering intellectual significance – and his indispensable contribution to understanding Palestine’s struggle for liberation.
A new Barbican exhibit examines the work of the feminist architects who broke down the barriers of their industry and the ‘neutral’ buildings it created to imagine a genuinely inclusive, accessible use of space.
In another ‘rare intervention’, Tony Blair recently urged Labour to reject the collectivism that brought it into existence and return to the individualism that defined his tenure – but that’s the last thing voters want.
After their defeat in Paris in 1871, exiled Communards arrived on British shores. Their time here forged solidarity across the Channel, and left an imprint on British radicalism for decades to come.
On this day in 1381, the lower classes of southern England began a titanic class struggle against the aristocracy – to demand justice for those who laboured and build a land where ‘everything be common.’
The latest relaunch of Labour’s centre-left has seen it contrast its own modernity with socialist ‘nostalgia’ – but the Blairites remain wedged in the 1990s, and are determined to take the party down memory lane.
Two writers who grew up in Birmingham – one in Thatcher’s 1980s, and one in Blair’s ’90s – discuss class, geography, housing, work, and accents inside and outside of England’s second city.
Josep Almudéver, the last surviving International Brigader to Spain, passed away earlier this week aged 101. We republish one of his final interviews on the global significance of the struggle against fascism.
Faced with growing anti-elite sentiment, the Tories have reinvented themselves as culture warriors – a reinvention designed to overcome the disasters caused by decades of free-market economics.
Earlier this week Josep Almudéver Mateu, the last veteran of the International Brigades which defended the Spanish Republic, passed away aged 101. We remember his contribution to the fight against fascism.
One quarter of all privately-rented homes in England fail to meet basic health standards. The problem can’t be solved by piecemeal reforms – only grassroots tenant organising can fight landlord neglect.
As the Covid-19 pandemic forced greater state intervention in the economy, many commentators proclaimed the end of neoliberalism – but governments around the world are acting to prop up the market.
Corporate tax avoidance is systemic in the modern economy, accounting for $600 billion a year, but a number of new plans aim to close the loopholes – and force the world’s wealthiest companies to pay their share.
On this day in 1971, Britain adopted the Misuse of Drugs Act. Half a century later, drug-related deaths are at a record high – it’s time to accept that the prohibitive approach is harmful and demand something different.
In the midst of a pandemic, Thurrock’s bin workers found themselves facing council cuts that would have left them £4,000 a year worse off – so they organised, went on strike and beat the bosses.
Denmark is one of the few European states to elect a social-democratic government in recent years – but its mix of progressive economics and anti-immigrant policies offers a stark warning about the years ahead.
Recent campaigns against council housing and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in London are a reminder of the dangers of localist rhetoric – and how it can be weaponised against progressive policies.
This week, Grace speaks to climate journalist and author Kate Aronoff about Joe Biden’s climate plan, the Green New Deal, and whether fossil fuel executives should be tried for crimes against humanity.
In the Portuguese capital, a centre-left mayor was elected on a pledge to fight the city’s runaway housing crisis – but his efforts show that real change only comes from challenging the logic of the market.