Pay Down, and Everything Else Up? Join a Union
While the Treasury talks about scrapping caps on bankers' bonuses, real wages in the UK fell 2.9% last year. The only way to change it: build trade union power so workers can bargain for better.
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94. Seizing the State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore
This week, Grace speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist and scholar. They discuss who is profiting from the criminal justice system, how existing institutions within the system serve to support and reinforce capitalist social relations, and what a socialist conception of justice looks like.
‘I’ve Got Nothing Left’: The Cancer Survivor Striking Against Royal Mail
Emma, a 45-year-old postal worker, survived cancer only to find her life plagued by low wages and overwork. Now, she’s on the picket line taking on Royal Mail – and demanding respect for the workers they once clapped.
Royal Pageantry Can’t Disguise that Britain Is Broken
The ten days of national mourning over Queen Elizabeth II has temporarily taken over the national conversation – but it can’t cover up the scandal of Britain’s growing poverty for long.
The Energy Crisis Is Forcing Families into Record Debt
Even before the April price hike, British families were £2.1 billion in energy debt. Capping prices at today’s levels won’t do – we need a real reduction and public ownership.
A Reliquary of Modern Wales
Richard King’s oral history of post-war, pre-devolution Wales centres on the tensions between socialism and nationalism, and how each responded to the destruction of Wales’ industrial modernity.
Justice for Chris Kaba
Since 1990, there have been over 1,800 deaths in police custody or following police contact and almost zero accountability. Chris Kaba is another victim of a brutal, uncontrollable Met, and his family deserves the truth.
The Fight for a New Chile Goes On
The defeat of Chile's draft constitution is a blow, but support for replacing the Pinochet-era document remains strong – and the necessity of burying neoliberalism’s legacy is as vital as ever.
How Scotland’s Rent Freeze Was Won
Scotland's rent freeze is a huge win for tenants' union Living Rent. Now we need a freeze across the UK, and proper rent controls to stop landlords taking the piss for good.
An Alternative Atlas
In their anthology Queer Spaces, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell map the diversity and solidarity of LGBTQIA+ communities through buildings from Havana to London to Beirut.
To Cut the Giant Bills, Tax the Giant Profits
Energy giants are expected to make £170 billion in excess profit in the next two years. By ruling out a higher windfall tax, Liz Truss is defining her premiership from the offset: more for the rich at the expense of everyone else.
London’s Hunger Is An Avoidable Crisis
There is no reason anyone in London, one of the world's wealthiest cities, should be going hungry. It's time to build a system that acknowledges that fact – and ends food insecurity for good.