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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.
Party infighting and political coups will lead Scottish Labour nowhere. It’s time for the party to unite around the progressive economic agenda that the people of Scotland desperately need.
From Covid-19 outbreaks to terrible working conditions, disastrous impacts on the planet and animal cruelty, industrial meat production reveals the destructive nature of modern capitalism.
The US stock market had its best August since 1984 – but it means little for the real economy. Stock markets today are casinos for the rich inflated by central bank policies and corporate monopolies.
Proposals to close five Citizens Advice Bureaux in the East End of Glasgow are an attack on working-class communities – and a sign of a council prepared to abandon their city’s most marginalised.
In 1982, anti-apartheid leader Ruth First was killed when a parcel bomb sent by South African police exploded in her office. Her comrade Ronnie Kasrils remembers her revolutionary life.
For decades, the distinction between work and leisure time has been fading away. We can’t afford a return to that old ‘normal’ – after Covid-19, we must fight for a future where workers control their lives.
Grace Blakeley is joined by Walden Bello – academic, author, human rights campaigner – to discuss the history of the Philippines, campaigning against US imperialism and neoliberal globalisation.
The podcast ‘Wind of Change’ investigates the rumour that the CIA authored a famous ballad that soundtracked the end of East Germany, using the story to explore the cultural politics of the Cold War.
While governments around the world have allowed inequality to increase during Covid-19, Barcelona’s left-wing municipality has fought back – introducing measures to support workers, women, migrants and the environment.
The extended eviction ban comes to an end later this month, threatening huge numbers of tenants with loss of their homes. Delays aren’t enough – only tackling the root causes of housing insecurity can prevent a crisis.
A century ago, amidst Ireland’s struggle for independence, more than 100 soviets were declared across the country as workers asserted themselves – and demanded an end to capitalism as well as imperial rule.
As the world faces deep political crisis, the liberal intelligentsia is increasingly lost – trapped in nostalgia for a past that never was and failing to understand the damage caused by economic policies they advocated.
There is beauty in Britain, but there is far more misery. That is not a natural or inevitable state of affairs – but a consequence of our miserable ruling class and their ruthless commitment to capitalism.
A new book explores Sylvia Pankhurst’s incredible political journey, from the women’s suffrage movement and the fight for socialism at home to the battle against empire in Ireland, Africa and beyond.
Under capitalism, investment in new technologies only takes place when it’s profitable for corporate interests – if we want innovation to benefit society at large, we need a socialist system.
In the midst of a global pandemic, Ikea Glasgow introduced a new sick pay policy forcing self-isolating workers onto just £95 a week. A union rep, Richie Venton, fought back – and soon found himself sacked.
In an era of runaway inequality and environmental destruction, corporate giants are rebranding as socially-conscious – but these problems are caused by the same system that makes them rich.
Under capitalism, the decisions that shape society are made by those who own the wealth – and the rest of us have to work for them to survive. That’s neither freedom nor democracy.
The safe reopening of schools has been undermined by the government’s failure on test and trace – but also by a decade of cuts which have left our schools disgracefully under-resourced.
Inequality was steep in Britain before the pandemic, but those who entered this crisis with insecure work, low pay and high rents will leave it even worse off – if we want a better future, it’s time to organise.