NHS Workers Unite
A nurse gives her perspective on the historic NHS strikes — and where they need to go next.
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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.
The Great Energy Scam
In April, the government plans to push millions into poverty by hiking energy bills — the latest sacrifice on the altar of privatisation.
Tribune in the Community
The newly-formed Luton Tribune Club is fighting the cost-of-living crisis in one of Britain’s most neglected communities.
The New Austerians
Britain is in the midst of a workers’ uprising. The return of austerity aims to kill it in its tracks.
Bleeding Junior Doctors Dry
After years of falling pay and impossible workloads, junior doctors are organising to fight back.
‘Amazon Doesn’t Own Us’: Behind the Historic UK Strikes
This week, Amazon workers in Britain are taking part in their biggest strike yet against the corporate giant. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that workers can fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments.
Schools Just Want to Have Funds
The teachers’ strike is about more than just fair pay — it’s a fight for the future of education.
Our Right to Strike
Capitalism guarantees bosses the power to exploit – our only defence is the right to strike back effectively.
Selling Austerity
Austerity is justified as necessary for the sound management of the economy, but elites have always understood its true purpose: weakening the political strength of the working class.
The Manchester Student Rent Strike Is Solidarity in Action
Rent strikers at the University of Manchester aren’t just protesting the cost of living crisis – they are building a movement with trade unions to fight the marketisation of higher education.
Mokhtar Mokhtefi’s Literature of Refusal
The recently published memoir of Algerian revolutionary Mokhtar Mokhtefi, I Was A French Muslim, powerfully portrays a life spent in the struggle against French imperialism and for the unlocking of all human potential.
Man and Showman
Dubliner Brendan Behan was born one hundred years ago. Despite his demons, he became one of the twentieth century’s great working-class writers.
The North Will Rise Again
The history of the North of England — from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the neglect of recent decades — has produced a culture at once pragmatic and hopelessly ambitious.
No, We Don’t Need Austerity!
There’s nothing ‘pragmatic’ about repeating a social catastrophe.
Sputnik and Shed
Two photobooks documenting what could be called ‘socialist playgrounds’ reveal the differences between adults designing for children, and children designing for themselves.
Come On You Reds
A new book on the beginnings of football in the Soviet Union reveals how the Bolsheviks first regarded it as an opium of the people — and then tried to build a game of their own.
Property Will Eat Itself
The transformation of industrial spaces into clubs and then into flats in cities like Manchester has created a strange ouroboros of self-consuming development.
Make Do and Mend
However you read the statistics, the climate crisis has to mean less building. What does a future of living in old buildings hold for the future of architecture?
One Man’s Trash
In the dark days of John Major’s Britain, Channel 4’s Eurotrash took aim at Britain’s relationship with ‘the continent’ and created a low-art surrealist classic in the process.