Virtual Reality’s Political Potential
VR documentary films can work to politicise perception, offering portals into different ways of seeing society.
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Raven Hart
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.
Universal Credit Has Been a Disaster. It Has to Be Replaced.
As the cost of living crisis bites, the failings of Universal Credit – low rates and complicated fluctuating payments among them – are redoubling the misery for millions. It’s time to replace it with a benefits system that works.
Ghost in the Machine
Chris Blackwell’s memoir of his life between Jamaica and Britain is attuned to the uses of a posh accent in the post-colonial music industry.
Big Oil’s Disinformation War
Big Oil has waged a decades-long disinformation war to prevent the transition to renewable energy, resulting in obscene profits for fossil fuel companies, soaring bills for consumers and a climate crisis that threatens the planet.
Only Disconnect
Darren McGarvey’s second book uses the author’s authenticity to drive home the disconnection between classes in Britain; but in doing so, it reflects a cosy national consensus in Scotland.
How Hungary Abandoned Roma Refugees
In Hungary, attacks on support for refugees and prejudices aggravated by Orbán have left Roma people who crossed the border from Ukraine facing a future of deepening exclusion and insecurity.
Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. A New Constitution Could Bury It.
Today Chile is voting on a new constitution. By replacing Pinochet’s document with one that guarantees social, economic and environmental rights, Chileans have a chance to bury the legacy of neoliberalism once and for all.
Tory Levelling Up Doesn’t Exist
The content of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill proves that the only levelling up the ruling party is interested in is levelling up the bank accounts of the already rich.
Bad Company
Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller talk to Juliet Jacques about their podcast and book ‘Bad Gays’, and about the ways in which LGBT history and current politics intersect.
These Strikes Don’t End with the Summer
Our current crisis was forty years in the making, and still none of the main parties have any real answers to spiralling inflation, unaffordable bills, or poverty wages. Hot strike summer might be over, but workers’ anger is not.
Smash the Computers!
A new film charts the brief rise and disappearance of the French direct action group CLODO, a collective of IT workers who believed that computerisation was being used as a tool of capital.
92. All Work, No Play w/ Mareile Pfannebecker and J. A. Smith
This week, Grace is joined by Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith to discuss their book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism. They discuss why we are working so hard, what kind of work is valued, and what a post-work future might look like.
Pay Up OCS
Outsourced hospital workers should be paid the same as their in-house NHS colleagues. Workers employed by OCS in Lancashire and South Cumbria Trust know that – and they’ve been out on strike to make it a reality.
Pakistan’s Floods Show the Climate Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis
Pakistan causes less than 1% of global carbon emissions, but a third of it is now underwater – and rebuilding is going to be hamstrung by its $12.5 billion in debt repayments due this year alone. That debt should be cancelled.
Remembering the Dublin Lockout
On this day in 1913, police attacked a crowd that had gathered to hear James Larkin speak during the Dublin Lockout – a pivotal moment of the war declared by employers on 20,000 workers and their right to unionise.
Fair Pay Is Within Reach
Reach journalists are on strike against a pathetic 3% pay offer from a company whose CEO got £4 million last year. In an industry wracked by casualisation and cuts, their action has transformative potential.
To Fight This Crisis, Fight for £15
The cost of living crisis is shining a light on what we’ve known for a long time: workers in this country simply aren’t paid enough. It’s time for a £15 minimum wage.
The Cost of Living Crisis Is a Public Health Emergency
People are being forced to go without heat or food just as spiralling costs push a ravaged NHS even closer to the brink. The health consequences will be catastrophic – we need immediate action.
How the War Against Ukraine Provoked Left Resistance in Russia
Under the radar of the mass media both inside and outside Russia, a young left has been at the vanguard of resistance to Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Back to the Club
This year’s 160th anniversary of the working men’s club movement went widely unnoticed – but at a time when community spaces are closing and the price of a pint is hurtling up, its history is one worth remembering.