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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.
From her earliest days as shadow education secretary, Keir Starmer set about undermining Rebecca Long-Bailey – because her socialist politics and loyalty to trade unions were incompatible with his leadership.
Robert Jenrick’s dodgy dealings with a billionaire Tory donor are just the tip of the iceberg – the whole planning system is rigged to favour private developers over the public good.
Nearly two hundred years ago, shipping merchants ignored all health warnings and brought a cholera pandemic to Britain. Their act of greed triggered widespread social revolt.
Fears that Labour is returning to hawkishness on welfare seem misplaced, but the party is making a pivot to the pandemic’s better-heeled ‘new’ unemployed – one which will do little to foster social solidarity.
In recent weeks we have seen corporations embrace anti-racist rhetoric – but many continue to pay minority workers poverty wages and bust their unions. That’s a PR exercise, not fighting inequality.
Two years after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s breakthrough, the New York Democratic establishment suffered another shock last night as socialist Jamaal Bowman defeated incumbent Congressman Elliot Engel.
The Labour leadership’s refusal to get ‘drawn in’ to the debate over the Gender Recognition Act isn’t good enough – it’s time for the party to stand up for trans rights against the right-wing media backlash.
The toppling of the statue of Edward Colston has drawn attention to Bristol’s dirty secret – the continued influence and activities of elite business lobby, the Society of Merchant Venturers.
Food writing often strays into political causes, from chlorinated chicken to sustainability and animal welfare – but it rarely mentions the key ingredient to food production worldwide: the capitalist system.
For decades, former British soldiers with friends in high places ran a mercenary enterprise from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua – leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
Tory plans to scrap Gender Recognition Act reform have come alongside a demonisation campaign against trans people which threatens years of progress. Labour must fight back.
During the coronavirus crisis, ‘underlying conditions’ has become just the latest throwaway remark reminding disabled people that society doesn’t value their lives.
Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper’s series ‘This Country’ might be a charming comedy about life in the Cotswolds, but it is ultimately more Bertolt Brecht than Vicar of Dibley.
Today marks 10 years since the first Coalition austerity budget. The last decade showed that austerity can be worse for the economy than any recession – but the government is determined to ignore the lesson.
Coronavirus has exposed the scandal of our privatised, fragmented, and underfunded social care system – it’s time to make the case for a real alternative: a National Care Service.
Recent weeks have seen France explode with mass demonstrations against police brutality – sparked by events in America but inspired by the killing of young black people at home.
How has the city with more Turner Prize winners than any other in the UK managed to put up such consistently terrible public art?
The Covid-19 crisis has given governments another excuse to ignore their responsibilities to refugees. Before the climate crisis to come, it’s essential that everyone fleeing disaster is treated with dignity.
In Myanmar under the British Empire, a wave of strikes in the country’s oil fields led to a mass socialist movement that led the country towards independence.
While far-right violence claimed the headlines in Glasgow this week, the cause behind the original peaceful protest endures – the inhumane living conditions facing asylum seekers in the city.