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Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune and the host of our weekly podcast A World to Win.
On this week’s podcast, Grace speaks to Ben Tarnoff, author of Internet for the People. They discuss the history of the web’s enclosure and privatisation – and how we could build a different model for the future.
Today’s budget was an unashamed handout to the rich. Workers aren’t going to take it lying down, and everyone seems to know it – except the government.
The Global South’s resilience against economic shock has been systematically stripped away – both by debt, and by the austerity countries had to accept to get loans in the first place. That debt must be forgiven.
While the Treasury talks about scrapping caps on bankers’ bonuses, real wages in the UK fell 2.9% last year. The only way to change it: build trade union power so workers can bargain for better.
This week, Grace speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist and scholar. They discuss who is profiting from the criminal justice system, how existing institutions within the system serve to support and reinforce capitalist social relations, and what a socialist conception of justice looks like.
This week, Grace talks to Natasha Josette and Olly Armstrong about their community organising project, Breathe. They discuss challenges and opportunities associated with community organising, how it can be linked up with other elements of political strategy like the labour movement and electoral politics, and how you can begin this sort of grassroots work in your own area.
Liz Truss is styling herself a 21st-century Thatcher. The problem with that is that inequality is already up, the labour movement has already been weakened, and there’s nothing left to privatise.
This week, Grace is joined by Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith to discuss their book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism. They discuss why we are working so hard, what kind of work is valued, and what a post-work future might look like.
This week, Grace talks to Andrew Murray, former advisor to Jeremy Corbyn. They discuss his forthcoming book, Is Socialism Possible in Britain? Reflections on the Corbyn Years, which examines the Corbyn moment within the long history of the Labour Party.
This week, Grace is joined by James Schneider, former Head of Strategic Communications for Jeremy Corbyn, to talk about his book Our Bloc: How We Win. They discuss the challenges facing the Left in the UK and around the world—and how we can bring together the disparate parts of our movement responding to the cost of living and climate crises into a coherent bloc to build power.
Wages are dropping at their fastest rate on record, but executive pay rose by nearly 40% last year. That it’s workers, not bosses, being told to practice pay restraint is a reminder that the whole system is rigged in favour of the rich.
Falling wages and spiralling prices mean energy bills are soon likely to eat up a sixth of the average salary. Tinkering around the edges of this crisis isn’t enough: we need public ownership, and we need it now.
This week, Grace speaks to Adrienne Buller about what green capitalism is and whether it is possible for the market to address the climate crisis.
Faced with demands for wage rises amid a cost of living crisis, Britain’s economic establishment has set out to protect the wealthy – by driving up unemployment and starting a recession.
This week, Grace speaks to Phil Burton-Cartledge about why there’s a dearth of Tory talent, and whether Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have any answers to long-term issues facing both the country and the Conservative Party itself.
This week, Grace speaks to Mike Savage, author of The Return of Inequality, about the renewed focus on inequality in politics – and how different forms of inequality are inextricably linked.
This week, Grace speaks to Vicky Spratt, author of the book Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain’s Housing Emergency. They discuss the multiple problems that tenants in the UK face – and how they are fighting back.
This week, Grace speaks to Eddie Dempsey, Senior Assistant General Secretary of the RMT, about the strike action being taken by the rail union up and down Britain.
The establishment wants you to blame workers for price rises, but wages have flatlined for a decade – the real cause of inflation is the profiteering of big corporations and the super-rich.
This week, Grace talks to Ali Milani, author of The Unlikely Candidate: What Losing an Election Taught Me About How to Change Politics. They discuss what it was like running against Boris Johnson in 2019, why there’s such a lack of talent in the Labour Party, and advice for young activists.