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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.