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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
More than 500 dock workers in Liverpool are out on strike against a real-terms pay cut from a company turning over millions – and proving the power of industrial action and solidarity to build a better world.
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.
In a town consistently misrepresented as a hub of religious and racial tension, Luton’s Enough is Enough rally was a clear reminder that what working class people have in common is so much more than what divides us.
This year’s conference has shown Labour at last willing to intervene in a failing private energy system, but still not ready to do what the scale of this crisis really demands: getting rid of that system altogether.
This weekend’s Italian election brought victory for Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Fratelli d’Italia, with record low turnout – the result of the decades-long collapse of Italy’s political horizons.
In the 1980s, a group of radical economists, planners, and activists in the GLC set out to transform London’s economy in the interest of its working class – with achievements and limitations we can learn from today.
Universal Credit is already a disaster – and while millions worry about putting food on the table, the government has decided now’s the time to make the cruel system even crueller.
Yesterday was a chance for the government to take real action on the cost of living crisis: proper pay rises, a windfall tax on energy giants, a rent freeze. They chose not to take it – so on 1 October, we take to the streets.
University bosses have spent the last decade attacking pay and pensions and stripping bare the conditions that once formed the basis of a career in higher education. Now, members of UCU are rising to take back what is theirs.
Tax is about political choices. At the worst possible time, our government just made all the wrong ones.
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.
Today’s move by Royal Mail to rip up agreements with the CWU is the biggest attack on workers in a generation. If it isn’t fought, we could see the derecognition of a strong union and the fragmentation of our postal service.
As a state bureaucracy, the Treasury is too controlling, conservative and elitist. Liz Truss’s attacks on it won’t make it work for ordinary people – but she’s right that change is needed, writes an anonymous civil servant.
Apsana Begum returns to work today. Her treatment is a nauseating example of the Labour leadership’s willingness to abandon Muslim women and domestic abuse survivors if they don’t have the right political friends.
Named for a colonial leader and built under the same deregulatory drive imposed on newly independent nations, the Grenfell Tower fire wasn’t solely a disaster of the present – it was proof of empire’s long and continuing shadow.
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.
In her award-winning novel ‘Summer Fun’, Jeanne Thornton writes of pop, politics, and the pleasures and pressures of transgender life.
Behind the rise of ‘cult-like’ multi-level marketing lies the fact that our economic system leaves growing numbers of people isolated, insecure – and keen to believe the promises of businesses that sell themselves as a way out.
While Kwasi Kwarteng weighs up ditching the bankers’ bonus cap, normal workers are told to show ‘restraint’ and quietly accept a decade of flatlining wages. It’s all designed to keep wealth moving in its current direction: upward.
Ruling Labour for a Green New Deal’s conference motion ‘out of order’ stifles debate about public ownership just as public support for it reaches new heights. It needs to be put back on the agenda.