The Answer to the Energy Crisis Is Public Ownership
The energy crisis looks set to send bills rocketing for working people across Britain – but there is an alternative to costly bailouts of private companies: public ownership.
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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Zarah Sultana: Electoral College Is a ‘Shameful, Anti-Democratic Power Grab’
The proposal to abolish ‘One Member, One Vote’ in Labour leadership elections is an attack on democracy by a Westminster elite – and betrays Keir Starmer’s commitment to empower party members.
EXCLUSIVE: Starmer’s Document Ending ‘One Member, One Vote’
A document distributed by the Labour Party today ahead of Friday’s NEC meeting proposes to end ‘One Member, One Vote’ – and hand an effective veto to the PLP in future leadership elections.
Remembering Winter Hill, Britain’s Biggest Mass Trespass
125 years ago, 10,000 walkers took to the road to Winter Hill in Lancashire to protest its closure by its wealthy owner – and to stand up for the rights of all to roam the country’s land.
The Contrarian Cult of Jonathan Meades
The television of Jonathan Meades is driven by a democratising impulse – stressing the importance and strangeness of the places where most people in Britain actually live.
Lessons From New York’s Housing Movement
Housing campaigners in New York have won an eviction ban extension until January 2022. Now the focus is on changing the system to protect against evictions for good.
From American Spy to Australian Prime Minister
Before becoming the prime minister who solidified Australia’s neoliberal era, Bob Hawke was an official in the trade union movement – and an informer for the American authorities.
The Ministry for Michael Gove
The newly rebranded Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is inheriting a host of crises – and with a history at the heart of the Tory machine, Gove is unlikely to solve them.
Paulo Freire at 100
Marxist philosopher Paulo Freire was born 100 years ago today. His work demonstrated the role that education can play in liberating the oppressed – and the struggle against capitalism.
Strong Unions Are the Only Way to Tackle Britain’s Low Pay Crisis
Labour’s commitment to a £10 minimum wage won’t be enough to tackle rampant low pay in the British economy – if workers are to earn enough to live, they’ll need stronger trade unions and collective bargaining.
How Class Collaboration Harms the Trade Union Movement
The newly-elected Young Members representative on UNISON’s NEC explains why unions that pursue partnership with capital can’t win – and why we need to revive a fighting class politics.
Why Capitalism Still Fears ‘The Communist Manifesto’
Spain’s Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz writes about the enduring relevance of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ – a critique from which capitalism, for all its longevity, has not managed to escape.
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World Is Right Here
The characters of ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ show that worrying about our personal lives and worrying about capitalism don’t have to be mutually exclusive – and that happiness doesn’t have to mean capitulation.
The SNP Is Failing Rail Workers – And the Planet
Earlier this month, five Glasgow SNP MSPs criticised a ballot for industrial action during COP26 – proving how hollow their commitment to both climate action and fair work really is.
How Thatcher’s Class War Remade the Tories
The Tories have always been capitalism’s representatives, but Margaret Thatcher approached that brief in new and brutal ways – taking class war to the very heart of British politics.
AUKUS Is One Step Closer to the New Cold War
The nuclear submarine deal between the UK, the US, and Australia has been sold as an effort to promote peace and stability – but it’s just the latest confrontation with China in what is quickly becoming a new Cold War.
Labour Is Turning its Back on the Climate Crisis
After a year of record heatwaves, wildfires and floods, Labour’s refusal to even debate the Green New Deal policies needed to respond to the climate crisis is a scandal – and damning of Keir Starmer’s leadership.
The Afghan War Was an Imperial Endeavour
The bloody occupation of Afghanistan highlighted the grand delusions of Britain’s rulers – delusions that even after two decades of catastrophe, they’re still not prepared to give up on.
New Cabinet, Same Old Conservatives
This week’s Cabinet reshuffle has provided plenty of column inches for the commentariat – but it will do little to change the deeply unequal Britain that the Tories have built.
Going Back to NAM
From the late 70s to the early 90s, the New Architecture Movement proposed a form of building that centred the needs of people, not property developers – an idea that remains just as relevant today.