The Workers’ Wimbledon
Tennis has often been considered an exclusive sport – but in the 1930s, trade unionists came together to challenge the private clubs with their own tournament: the ‘Workers’ Wimbledon.’
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Billy Anania
Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
The Ethnic Cleansing Theme Park
For decades, Israel has used culture and heritage as a weapon in its war against the Palestinians – but its latest move in Silwan is the most brazen yet: replacing living neighbourhoods with a biblical theme park.
The Film That Fell to Earth
The recently re-released ‘Friendship’s Death’ is an ambitious 1980s Channel 4 film in which left-wing director Peter Wollen brings radical science fiction together with the Palestinian freedom struggle.
How Covid-19 Accelerated the Corporate Takeover of Our Economy
Despite early predictions that the pandemic would be a ‘great leveller,’ it’s increasingly clear that Covid-19 has helped major corporations increase their power – and only worker organising can fight back.
Ashington’s Statue to Jack Charlton: Tribute to a Working-Class Hero
Last week, the campaign for a statue to Jack Charlton in his hometown of Ashington reached its funding goal – with support from trade unions, ex-miners and the local council securing a statue to a working-class hero.
Care Workers Are the Foundation of Our Economy – And the Government Should Act Like It
While the government rolls out grandiose schemes to make Britain a ‘global superpower,’ it continues to neglect the care sector at home – priorities which show it has learned nothing from the Covid-19 pandemic.
How Britain’s Growing Inequality Left Poorer People to Die During Covid-19
New analysis shows that Covid-19 mortality was 25 percent higher in parts of England which were poorer and more impacted by austerity – exposing the government’s myth that the pandemic was a ‘great equaliser.’
The Government Could Outlaw Fire and Rehire – If It Wanted
Nearly 1 in 10 workers have faced threats to their pay, conditions and jobs since the pandemic began due to aggressive fire and rehire tactics – but the government could step in tomorrow to make them illegal.
How Labour Alienated Muslim Voters
Keir Starmer’s party might have held Batley and Spen, but its approach to both domestic and foreign issues has turned away swathes of supporters in the Muslim community – as well as showing a total lack of moral fibre.
Batley and Spen Is Not a Victory for Keir Starmer
Labour’s razor-thin victory in Batley and Spen owes to Kim Leadbeater’s popular local candidacy – not to a party leadership that continues to alienate its own core voters.
The Fallout from Climate Change Isn’t Coming – It’s Already Here
As one historic heatwave tears through the Pacific Northwest, another is causing temperatures ‘too hot for humanity’ in Pakistan – the consequences of climate change are no longer a threat, they’re already here.
Fighting the Privatisation of Channel 4
The Tories are once again threatening to privatise Channel 4, the latest in a string of attacks on public broadcasting – to only way to fight back is to build a campaign for a truly democratic media.
Food Banks Shouldn’t Exist
Last year, the Trussell Trust distributed a record-breaking 2.5 million emergency food parcels. That charitable giving isn’t cause for celebration – it’s proof of the total abdication of responsibility by our politicians.
How the Fall of Mining Unions Eroded the Foundations of the ‘Red Wall’
Since the 2019 election, commentators have focused on the demise of Labour heartlands in the ‘red wall’ – but few have focused on the central role once played by trade unions in sustaining a sense of community.
Remembering David R Edwards
David R Edwards, vocalist from experimental Welsh-language group Datblygu, has died aged 56. His work was pivotal in the Welsh musical underground – and in the revival of a radical Welsh culture.
Why Sajid Javid Will Be a Disaster for the NHS
‘Hopeless’ Hancock is out, but his successor Sajid Javid is ideologically committed to privatisation and an investor in private healthcare – the perfect candidate to accelerate the sell-off of our NHS.
Labour’s Backtrack on Free Social Care Is Abandoning Disabled People
The Labour Party’s backpedalling on a National Independent Living Support Service shows the party isn’t serious about fighting for disabled people – or about investment in the public services we need.
Coming Out Against Imperialism
In the 1970s, pioneering gay activists in the US and Britain saw the fight against homophobia as part of a much broader struggle – one which linked Pride to the cause of liberating the world’s oppressed peoples.
Debunking the Myths of Liberalism
Liberalism is often framed as the politics of human rights and individual freedom, but its origins lie just as much in a fear of the masses – and only understanding that anti-democratic impulse can clarify its purpose.
The Two Englands
The Tories portray themselves as the natural party of a conservative England, but there is another England – one with a centuries-old tradition of radicalism and dissent against the established order.