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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
This summer 50 years ago, British building workers, long considered impossible to organise nationally, went out on strike and won the largest single builders’ pay rise ever – but they were met with state persecution and blacklisting.
The first BT and Openreach strike since 1987 pits engineers and call centre workers, many of whom are forced to rely on foodbanks, against a massively profitable corporation – and executives who earn millions of pounds a year.
From the cost of living crisis to climate chaos, our era is defined by enormous social challenges – and the private sector has shown it can’t solve them. It’s time for massive state intervention in the economy.
Friedrich Engels’ 1872 pamphlet ‘The Housing Question’ highlighted the mutual reliance between the housing crisis and the capitalist system in Victorian England. In the years since, that relationship has only deepened.
The media tries to pit the old against the young in a generation war – but the dividing line that really defines our society is the one between classes.
Working in excessive heat is dangerous, and we can’t trust bosses to do anything to protect us – workers need a maximum temperature and a new trade union campaign is fighting to achieve it.
Labour Students has historically been a by-word for gerrymandering and neoliberal politics – but when ballots open next week, student members have the chance to refound it as a campaigning, socialist wing.
On this day in 1972, five trade unionists were arrested after refusing to obey an injunction against picketing. We republish a report from Tribune on the campaign which secured their freedom.
Far from drawing a line under party factionalism, the Starmer leadership has elevated the very Labour Right fixers whose conduct is most criticised in the Forde Report – and given them licence to remake the party in their image.
As Britain’s strike wave intensifies, 1,800 Arriva North West bus drivers have called a continuous strike – the latest group of workers to take to the picket lines in the fight for a real pay rise.
For many black and Asian members of Labour, the Forde report’s findings of racism in the party are no surprise – but that didn’t stop them being ignored by swathes of the mainstream media.
In June, Nadhim Zahawi called possible strikes by teachers ‘unforgiveable’. What’s really unforgiveable is subjecting overstretched education workers to a real-terms pay cut in a cost of living crisis.
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.
In response to today’s Forde Report, Keir Starmer said he had ‘rid the party of destructive factionalism.’ My experience as chair of Young Labour shows that’s not true.
The privatisation of children’s social care services is definitive proof that the elite puts profit before its responsibilities – even to society’s most acutely vulnerable.
This week’s heatwave will make work nasty at best and fatal at worst, especially for people in physical or outdoor jobs. We need a maximum working temperature in law to stop people facing conditions like this.
David Cronenberg’s new film shares its title with his second feature, made fifty-two years ago – a luridly pessimistic vision of the future made in reaction to the sexual revolution.
When it comes to internet infrastructure, the for-profit model is presented as inevitable – but political decisions built today’s internet, and political movements could build something different.
Forty years ago, Glasgow band The Blue Nile released their first single. Their work was rooted in Glasgow itself, and the changes wrought by the shock of Thatcherism.
Tory leadership hopefuls are desperate to direct attention away from the living standards catastrophe they’ve collectively ushered in – and they’re more than happy to attack one of society’s most marginalised groups to do it.