Yes, the British Media Is Racist
The Society of Editors’ claim that the British press isn’t racist was rightly mocked – but it’s only one small indicator of the deep denial that exists about the role our media plays in demonising the oppressed.
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Ellie Whittaker
Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
How Tory Cuts Created the Child Hunger Crisis
One in seven children in the UK are going hungry today. This isn’t an unavoidable side effect of the pandemic – it’s the direct and predictable consequence of Tory austerity.
Rupert Murdoch at 90
On the media mogul’s 90th birthday, many will focus on Rupert Murdoch as a nasty individual – but he represents an even nastier system: the billionaire-owned media.
Covid-19 Shows Corbyn Was Right About Public Broadband
After the 2019 election, Labour was mocked for supporting free, public and high-quality broadband – but as millions struggle without full fibre through lockdown, the idea has never looked better.
The Fashion Debt Trap
Founded in Sweden, Klarna is a bank that has spread like a pink rash over the fashion industry – but its ‘buy now, pay later’ approach is digging a cash-strapped generation deeper into personal debt.
Covid’s Graduate Jobs Crisis
The pandemic has seen unemployment explode among young graduates, and no amount of polishing CVs will solve the crisis – the only path to decent work for this generation is political and economic change.
27. Love Kills Capitalism: An Interview with Kristen Ghodsee
In a special International Women’s Day episode of A World to Win, Grace speaks to academic and author and Kristen Ghodsee about the failures of liberal feminism, and about how socialism can help us build happier, healthier relationships.
Red Library: Pamphlets
A serious crisis is always a good time for short, sharp, and prophetic pamphlets. The Covid-19 disaster has especially spurred works dealing both with how the crisis has unfolded, and ways activists can survive it.
Something in the Air
A new book on modern architecture and climate researches the passive cooling strategies that immediately preceded the age of air-conditioning. In the age of accelerating climate change, can we learn anything from them?
Repetitive Beats
The Design Museum’s show Electronic showcases how a once-revolutionary music has become bourgeois and clichéd, but contains scattered hints at what was once possible.
How the Unions Got Covid Right
While the government meandered in mixed messaging, misconduct, and mistakes, trade unions have consistently called the pandemic correctly — but have been ignored.
Against the Centre
The centre is back. But it still hasn’t got any answers.
The NHS’s Winter of Discontent
Even before the pandemic hit, health workers warned that hospitals were struggling to cope. Now, as they fight through one of the darkest periods in living memory, those at the frontline are increasingly angry at the government’s failures.
Years in the Making
The NHS crisis didn’t begin with Covid-19 — years of outsourcing, competitiveness reforms, and obsessions over ‘efficiency’ have decimated the public health service.
The Fight for Labour Party Democracy
Newly-elected NEC member Nadia Jama on the battle ahead for the Labour left in 2021.
The Campus Revolt
Ripped-off students are engaged in the largest rent strike in decades — but that’s only the beginning. The only way to bring about real change is to stop the marketisation of higher education.
Tribune’s Tribunes
In the 1960s, the Labour left organised around Tribune and tried to build itself into a parliamentary vehicle for socialism.
Ruins of the Mind
Joelle M. Abi-Rached’s new book uses a single psychiatric hospital to tell both the history of psychiatry and the history of modern Lebanon.
Scottish Labour’s Attack on Democracy
Hollie Cameron, a socialist standing for Glasgow Kelvin, has been removed as a Labour candidate after comments about Indyref2 – it’s yet another sign that the party is clamping down on dissent.
Fight at the Museum
The culture war over history isn’t the only battle in Britain’s museums, there’s a fight over job security too – and at the V&A, the latest institution to plan layoffs, the two issues are joined at the hip.