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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
In the US, freight railroad workers have been pushed to breaking point while the rail carriers profit more than ever – and while a strike was averted in the early hours of Thursday morning, it isn’t off the table.
Jean-Luc Godard’s shift from narrative cinema to the avant-garde was rooted in an ITV commission to make a film about Britain – beginning the director’s decades of experiments in integrating film and revolutionary politics.
The ruling class loves to cry ‘free speech’ when it serves its culture war. The arrest of republican protestors this week has proved just how superficial that commitment really is.
While other countries bring in rent freezes and caps to help people face winter, guidance in England just says rent hikes should be ‘fair and realistic’. It might be laughable if it wasn’t pushing hundreds of thousands into debt and poverty.
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.
Emma, a 45-year-old postal worker, survived cancer only to find her life plagued by low wages and overwork. Now, she’s on the picket line taking on Royal Mail – and demanding respect for the workers they once clapped.
The ten days of national mourning over Queen Elizabeth II has temporarily taken over the national conversation – but it can’t cover up the scandal of Britain’s growing poverty for long.
Even before the April price hike, British families were £2.1 billion in energy debt. Capping prices at today’s levels won’t do – we need a real reduction and public ownership.
Richard King’s oral history of post-war, pre-devolution Wales centres on the tensions between socialism and nationalism, and how each responded to the destruction of Wales’ industrial modernity.
Since 1990, there have been over 1,800 deaths in police custody or following police contact and almost zero accountability. Chris Kaba is another victim of a brutal, uncontrollable Met, and his family deserves the truth.
The defeat of Chile’s draft constitution is a blow, but support for replacing the Pinochet-era document remains strong – and the necessity of burying neoliberalism’s legacy is as vital as ever.
Scotland’s rent freeze is a huge win for tenants’ union Living Rent. Now we need a freeze across the UK, and proper rent controls to stop landlords taking the piss for good.
In their anthology Queer Spaces, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell map the diversity and solidarity of LGBTQIA+ communities through buildings from Havana to London to Beirut.
Energy giants are expected to make £170 billion in excess profit in the next two years. By ruling out a higher windfall tax, Liz Truss is defining her premiership from the offset: more for the rich at the expense of everyone else.
There is no reason anyone in London, one of the world’s wealthiest cities, should be going hungry. It’s time to build a system that acknowledges that fact – and ends food insecurity for good.
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.
Renting was a nightmare before the cost of living disaster. Now bidding wars and massive rent hikes are worsening a housing system already in crisis – and many simply can’t afford the hit.
After bus workers kept the country moving during Covid, Arriva is now trying to slap hundreds of them in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire with a real-terms pay cut. The workers are having none of it.
Polyflor workers in Manchester were set to strike last week for a fair pay offer from a company that posted record profits last year. Then management suspended all their shifts – and they don’t yet know when they’re going back.