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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.

Stand By Our Teachers

A teacher explains the toll the cost of living crisis is having on our children’s education – and why the only answer is to strike for something better.

Behind the Attack on AMLO

By naming Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ‘Tyrant of the Year’, Index on Censorship has exposed its role in slandering world leaders who dare to challenge the Western establishment.

Fair Pay or Fire Strike

Firefighters in the FBU have voted overwhelmingly for strike action. In the face of a decade of falling pay and constant cuts, it’s a desperate attempt to save their service.

Inside Gigademia

The last decade has seen a rising tide of casual contracts in universities, with stability and security for workers in freefall. It’s just one of the reasons our marketised higher education system needs an overhaul.

Inside Britain’s First Amazon Strike

Amazon is one of the world’s wealthiest companies, but its workers aren’t paid enough to live on. That’s why today, staff at its Coventry warehouse made history by staging the first-ever official UK strike.

The Rich History of Community Activism

Over the decades, countless groups across Britain have organised for a system of housing and planning that puts communities at its heart. A new archive aims to tell their stories – and to continue their struggle.

To Save the World, Share the Wealth

45.6% of global wealth is in the hands of the top 1%. If the billionaires and world leaders who met at Davos this week actually wanted to improve the state of the world, they could start there.

The Anti-Freedom Bill

As the news about another Met police officer’s horrific crimes unfolded this week, the government was busy trying to give police even more powers to shut down protests. It’s an assault on democratic dissent.

The Head Boy In the Bubble

Rishi Sunak might have grown up in an industrial city, but he spent most of his life in a bubble – made clear not only by the fact he never made any working-class friends, but that he seems to understand nothing about strikes.

Adolfo Kaminsky’s Life of Struggle

From saving countless Jewish lives in Nazi-occupied Paris to aiding anticolonial struggles from Algeria to South Africa, Adolfo Kaminsky – who died last week – never surrendered his ideals of ‘uninterrupted resistance’ against oppression and racism.