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.
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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.