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Raven Hart is co-founder of the Bristol Cooperative Alliance, an organisation that aims to promote a decentralised economy that empowers local communities and facilitates democratic self-determination.
Nearly ten months into the pandemic, the government has failed to bridge the digital divide – leaving 1.78 million schoolchildren without proper means to learn from home. It is a scandal that could have been avoided.
A new study shows that the top 1% in Britain are £800 billion richer than previously believed. It’s not an accident – the super-rich regularly conceal their wealth, meaning inequality is much worse than we think.
When teachers called for schools to close in the interests of public health, Labour should have backed them. Instead, Starmer and the frontbench ignored trade unions – and got the issue dead wrong.
With poverty and unemployment skyrocketing before lockdown, the government must act urgently to avoid a disaster – and support millions of workers who are already on the breadline.
From digital access for schoolchildren to liveable sick pay, a minimum wage floor for furlough and a rent freeze, millions of people need support to survive the new lockdown – and they can’t wait for more delays.
Yesterday was a victory for all those who campaigned for Julian Assange’s release – and it couldn’t have been achieved without a campaign of public pressure. Now the same is needed to free him from Belmarsh prison.
While lockdown puts climate movements on hold, oil and gas lobbyists have increased their access to public subsidies and placed themselves at the centre of economic recovery plans.
Despite styling itself as a bastion of international fairness, newly declassified documents reveal Britain’s involvement in abuses and coups across Latin America – an involvement which continues today.
Tory governments and the right-wing press have worked closely for decades, but the pandemic has brought public faith in the media to a new low — just as trust becomes more important than ever.
As the government treats the cultural industries – and cultural workers – with contempt, community-led initiatives may be the only way for cultural spaces to survive after the Covid-19 pandemic.
125 years ago, rugby league was formed in a split with rugby union. The dividing lines were based on class – and shaped both codes for decades to come.
Since the beginning of the Covid crisis teachers have been demanding measures to make schools safe. By failing to act, the government has left school workers with no alternative but to campaign for closures.
An open letter to Labour leader Keir Starmer from MPs, trade unionists and campaigners calls for the party to support the National Education Union’s demand to close schools in the interests of public health.
Celtic is renowned for its radical roots, but recent months have seen a struggle between fans and owners over its future direction. It’s another of modern football’s battles between communities and corporations.
The government has failed frontline workers from the beginning of the pandemic – but in the North West, thousands of care workers organised to fight back, join a union and win liveable sick pay.
2020 saw a number of leading lights of the international socialist movement pass away. From Belfast to Bolivia, Glasgow to Ghana, we remember a selection – and pay tribute to their lives in struggle.
In 2020, Bolivia’s social movements were faced with a brutal right-wing coup regime. Instead of retreating, they rebuilt – and won the struggle for democracy against all odds.
As 2020 draws to a close, we hear from those at its frontlines: nurses, teachers, posties, binmen – the workers who’ve kept society going through Covid-19, despite the best efforts of the government.
As Covid wreaks havoc on the NHS, the government’s plan to open schools this Monday is a serious risk to public health. School workers have a duty to push back – and we have a duty to support them.
2020 has been a difficult year for the socialist movement, with significant defeats in many countries – but the Left’s answers to the crises we face remain far more compelling than any offered by the Right or Centre.