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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
New analysis shows that Covid-19 mortality was 25 percent higher in parts of England which were poorer and more impacted by austerity – exposing the government’s myth that the pandemic was a ‘great equaliser.’
Nearly 1 in 10 workers have faced threats to their pay, conditions and jobs since the pandemic began due to aggressive fire and rehire tactics – but the government could step in tomorrow to make them illegal.
Keir Starmer’s party might have held Batley and Spen, but its approach to both domestic and foreign issues has turned away swathes of supporters in the Muslim community – as well as showing a total lack of moral fibre.
Labour’s razor-thin victory in Batley and Spen owes to Kim Leadbeater’s popular local candidacy – not to a party leadership that continues to alienate its own core voters.
As one historic heatwave tears through the Pacific Northwest, another is causing temperatures ‘too hot for humanity’ in Pakistan – the consequences of climate change are no longer a threat, they’re already here.
The Tories are once again threatening to privatise Channel 4, the latest in a string of attacks on public broadcasting – to only way to fight back is to build a campaign for a truly democratic media.
Last year, the Trussell Trust distributed a record-breaking 2.5 million emergency food parcels. That charitable giving isn’t cause for celebration – it’s proof of the total abdication of responsibility by our politicians.
Since the 2019 election, commentators have focused on the demise of Labour heartlands in the ‘red wall’ – but few have focused on the central role once played by trade unions in sustaining a sense of community.
David R Edwards, vocalist from experimental Welsh-language group Datblygu, has died aged 56. His work was pivotal in the Welsh musical underground – and in the revival of a radical Welsh culture.
‘Hopeless’ Hancock is out, but his successor Sajid Javid is ideologically committed to privatisation and an investor in private healthcare – the perfect candidate to accelerate the sell-off of our NHS.
The Labour Party’s backpedalling on a National Independent Living Support Service shows the party isn’t serious about fighting for disabled people – or about investment in the public services we need.
In the 1970s, pioneering gay activists in the US and Britain saw the fight against homophobia as part of a much broader struggle – one which linked Pride to the cause of liberating the world’s oppressed peoples.
Liberalism is often framed as the politics of human rights and individual freedom, but its origins lie just as much in a fear of the masses – and only understanding that anti-democratic impulse can clarify its purpose.
The Tories portray themselves as the natural party of a conservative England, but there is another England – one with a centuries-old tradition of radicalism and dissent against the established order.
Svetlana Kana Radević was one of the great architects of socialist Yugoslavia – her emphasis on public space showed what architecture can achieve when liberated from the constraints of the property market.
Keir Starmer’s reshuffle of his top staff is an attempt to shift the blame for the party’s ongoing poor performance – but bringing in more Blair-era right-wingers will only make Labour’s problems worse.
In the post-war era, Caribbean independence coincided with the rise of the West Indies cricket team – making matches against England political affairs which pitted former coloniser against the colonised.
After more than a century of tradition, the Clarion Cycling Club severed its historic link to socialism earlier this month at a contentious AGM – breaking ties to the workers’ movement which brought the club into existence.
Jimmy Cauty’s exhibition ESTATE makes model villages out of some of Scotland’s best known housing projects – raising questions about working-class housing and the mythologies it inspires.
This week we discovered that the Treasury suppressed information about access to sick pay – just the latest scandal from a government which has refused to make liveable sick pay available throughout Covid-19.