The Pensions Bill amendment passed yesterday would have outlawed councils from boycotting apartheid South Africa in the 1980s – and is an attack on our democratic rights to express international solidarity.
This week, Grace talks to Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, about why the government is trying to take away firefighters’ right to strike – and how FBU members are organising to resist.
The NHS wants to increase the number of people accessing mental health support in the face of growing need – but when services are already under drastic strain, those good intentions can only go so far.
Research shows that the poorest families are set to see their energy bills rise 7.5 times faster than the richest – proof that the cost of living crisis is entrenching the vast inequality that already scars modern Britain.
Last week a bus company halted plans to cut a route, but only after a pensioner offered to fund it himself. It shouldn't take charity to save services – communities deserve modern bus systems fit for the people.
For LGBT History Month, historian Sheila Rowbotham remembers Edward Carpenter – poet, philosopher, utopian socialist, and a pioneer of gay rights amid the repression of Victorian England.
With Cold War divisions once again rising to the fore, the US is doing exactly what you'd expect it to: trying to exert influence in its old 'backyard'.
After a decade of stagnant wages, rising inflation is threatening to drive millions towards the breadline. Forget what the establishment says – it’s time to demand higher wages.
Many of Britain's housing association tenants are forced to live in homes that are infested, overrun with mould, and on the brink of collapse. We speak to campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa about the fight for change.
This week, Grace talks to writer and filmmaker Rupert Russell about how apparently random movements in prices, often driven by speculation in the Global North, create tectonic shifts that multiply around the world.
The cost of living crisis will swell the queues at food banks across the country, but allowing millions to go hungry while a handful get rich isn’t inevitable – it’s a political choice.
Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer have seized on the latest crisis as an opportunity for macho posturing – but bellicose rhetoric won't help Ukraine, and it could drag Europe into a devastating war.