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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Yesterday, Labour shadow minister Alex Sobel apologised to Keir Starmer for branding corporations ‘the enemy’ when it comes to climate change – but he was right: capitalism is destroying the planet.
In this week’s episode, recorded before the Ever Given incident, Grace speaks to academic and writer Laleh Khalili about the role of global shipping role in networks of state power, corporate sovereignty, and imperialism.
The Shrewsbury 24 case lifts the lid on one of the ways the British state has disempowered the working class since the 1970s – a war on the most effective tool available to trade unions: the picket line.
After the First World War, David Lloyd George promised ‘a fit country for heroes.’ The carers at the frontline of Covid-19 deserve the same commitment – because when Britain looks after our health system, we all benefit.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has been condemned for its implications for peaceful protest – but it also threatens to effectively criminalise one of the country’s most discriminated-against groups.
A decade ago, mayor Boris Johnson responded to the London Riots by encouraging police authoritarianism and criminalising the city’s youth en masse – as prime minister, he is following a familiar pattern.
Buoyed by a string of recent victories across the country, campaigners in West Yorkshire are calling for an end to their rip-off privatised bus service – and fighting for a public bus system that works for everyone.
Questions of police brutality have put the Home Secretary’s politics under increased scrutiny in the last month – but her record shows a much longer history of ruthlessness.
In the 1960s and ’70s, Australian construction workers organised with local communities to prevent the destruction of green spaces in urban areas – the movement they created pioneered a green class politics.
Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s ‘Intellectual and Manual Labour’, recently republished, is an influential account of the way in which human beings built a society where one class plans, and another toils.
Labour is basing its local election campaign on the party’s support for NHS workers, so now is the time to prove it – a new grassroots campaign is calling on Keir Starmer to ‘step up’ and back a 15% pay rise.
In the 1970s, the Writers’ Action Group campaigned for writers to receive royalties from library loans. Their campaign resulted in Public Lending Right – and is a model to follow in the fight for arts funding.
The sugary pop of 1985’s ‘Our Favourite Shop’ by Paul Weller’s The Style Council carried a brutal critique of the fantasies and realities of Thatcherism in the South of England during the tumultuous 1980s.
At the height of the post-Stalin ‘thaw,’ a self-organised group of young British travellers took a bus all the way to the Soviet Union – one of many innovative attempts to dissolve the boundaries of the Cold War.
In the 1970s, 24 construction workers were convicted for their role in a successful strike – the story behind their vindication this week reveals the degree to which the state wages war against the working class.
Today’s announcement by Alex Salmond has exposed further cracks in the SNP ahead of the Scottish parliamentary elections – but the real drama of the battle over independence is yet to come.
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the war in Yemen, the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster which has left 250,000 dead and millions facing starvation – all of it made possible by British government support.
In Finland, high-quality free school meals are provided to all children between six and sixteen as a public service – instead of handing over cash to rip-off profiteers, Britain should follow its lead.
The Royals’ finances, like their powers, are opaque, vague, and poorly understood, but they still receive immense state subsidies – it’s time to properly nationalise their lands.
Today, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham announced that the region’s buses will be brought back into public control – it’s a victory for campaigners and a model the whole country should follow.