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rs21 housing fraction members Kate Bradley and Charlotte Powell write on long awaited renters’ reforms – but ask, what is it we want in the
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rs21 housing fraction members Kate Bradley and Charlotte Powell write on long awaited renters’ reforms – but ask, what is it we want in the
The recent tragic death of toddler Awaab Ishak due to mould exposure has revealed how damp, dilapidated homes are harming our health. The Tories and
Medical residents and fellows at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx are trying to form a union, citing the need to fight overwork and understaffing
The Biden administration has not prioritized pushing through a confirmation of a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, which oversees labor issues for federal
The next time a speculative bubble is massively inflating around a fancy new asset like cryptocurrency and financial carnival barkers are screaming it will change
NHS workers march in Edinburgh in June 2021 to demand a pay rise (Picture: NHS Workers United for Scotland) In an appalling dereliction of duty,
A cliched picture for a cliched cop show, Granite Harbour Like the sonnet and the twelve bar blues, the British television cop drama has rules.
Firefighters support the postal workers’ strike in Sheffield (Picture: Rohan Kon) Resistance to the assaults on workers is growing. In an editorial reflecting on Thursday’s
Simon Schama examines Picasso’s Guernica Historian Simon Schama explores the power of art as a force for change in a new TV series. His starting
The council headquarters—up to its eyes in £1.3 billion of debt (Picture: Wikicommons/A P Monblat) The 400,000 residents of Croydon are facing a bleak winter
‘Jerusalem’ is now most likely to be heard at jubilee celebrations or Last Night of the Proms – but its author William Blake, born on
George Saunders may be one of America’s most lauded fiction writers, but when he turns his pen to the phenomenon of Donald Trump and his
Keir Starmer isn’t the only recent Labour leader to toy with nationalism and anti-migrant politics (picture: Labour Party) Keir Starmer’s journey to demanding—as he did
Solidarity on the CWU union picket line in Chingford during the Royal Mail strikes last week (Picture: Tony Phillips) On Friday morning picketing Royal Mail
Canada’s Trudeau government touts the country as a climate champion. COP27, where Canada was the only OECD country to have fossil fuel delegates in tow,
The myth of Silicon Valley touts the grit and flair of its tech bro champions. But the chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has revealed
If you feel a burning hatred toward our unjust social order, writes China Mieville, don’t run from it. Such hate for a system that immiserates
In the Vietnam War era, radical psychiatrists and antiwar veterans developed a concept of trauma stemming from perpetrating acts of violence. Over the next decade,
Sections of the environmental movement bemoaned the birth of the world’s eight-billionth person, but the Left should have no part in this cynical misanthropy. The
Picketing at St Pancras station in London on Saturday as part of the train drivers’ strike (Picture: Guy Smallman) Strikes by train drivers in the
For a century, the official labor movement in Mexico has been a racket of company unions and protection contracts for bosses. Now that there’s a
Member of the UCU union on strike at Goldsmiths university (Pic: Guy Smallman) What’s rank and file organisation? The main divide in every workplace is
Months into the Federal Reserve’s quest to engineer a recession, ordinary Americans are feeling the pinch. Meanwhile, without the balm of rock-bottom interest rates, we’re
Everyone’s talking about the horrible political message of the new Call of Duty. Fair enough. But there’s no proof that video games generate real-world violence.
In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis showed how late 19th-century state violence and neglect created colonial markets and infrastructures, which, combined with shifting weather patterns,
German supermarket Rewe dropped association with the national football team Have corporations taken over the leadership of the fight against oppression? You might think so
The last 20 years have seen Manchester become the poster city of neoliberal urbanism with a dressing of radical chic. It’s time to consider how
UCU members, trade unionists and activists stage a vibrant rally in Brighton (Picture: Brighton SWP) There were more big picket lines across Britain on Friday
CWU union members on the picket line in south London during strikes at the end of November (Picture: Guy Smallman) 26 November: 9,500 Aslef union
The massive walkout at California’s flagship public university system is the largest strike in the US in recent years, and it’s now in its second
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