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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Across the country, activists are working to provide food to those who need it without the involvement of private profiteers. A National Food Service is being built from the ground up – now, it needs public funding.
Mark Fisher passed away five years ago today. In bleak times, his writing showed a new generation that another world was possible – and paved the way for socialist revival.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of James Joyce’s death. His writing was impacted by the great political intrigues of his time — from nationalism to religion, and his own sympathies for socialism.
Mark Fisher passed away four years ago today. In bleak times, his writing showed a new generation that another world was possible — and paved the way for socialist revival.
The government is using the new strain to shift blame for the crisis and paint itself as heroic – but from the very beginning its policies have compounded this public health disaster.
When a government in a poorer country hands public money to their friends to provide public services, only to see them pocket the lion’s share, we call it corruption. In Britain, we call it putting out to tender.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of James Joyce’s death. His writing was impacted by the great political intrigues of his time – from nationalism to religion, and his own sympathies for socialism.
The miserable school meal ‘hampers’ are the latest public services outsourced to for-profit companies that consistently fail to deliver. Childhood hunger should not be lining private pockets.
Many on the Left celebrated the suspension of Donald Trump’s Twitter account – but behind the decision lies a nexus of unaccountable power that threatens socialists as much as it does the far-right.
Covid-19 vaccines should be mass produced and made available to the whole world – but because of the pharmaceutical industry and its patents, private profit and not public health will determine the rollout.
Cinema is not the same as streaming: it’s collective, and often inspires discussion and argument. In 2021, when the pandemic finally recedes, why not build socialist film clubs?
The US Capitol riot was just the latest sign of a political system in deep crisis – and the only long-term solution is a break with the culture war and a return to class struggle.
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Defence was revealed to be underreporting civilian casualties in Yemen. It’s no surprise – the British government is complicit in a humanitarian disaster, and is trying to cover its tracks.
Priti Patel is considering plans to halve the minimum prison sentence required for deportation – the latest attack on migrants from a government determined to expand the hostile environment at every opportunity.
As many of Labour’s post-industrial heartlands drifted rightward, Liverpool remained solidly red. The reason is clear: working-class community organising.
The government has decided to keep nurseries open – despite scientific advice – to prevent many private outlets from closing. There is an alternative: publicly-funded childcare and early childhood education.
From dodgy bailouts to crony outsourcing, sweetheart deregulations and welfare profiteering, Covid-19 has provided plenty of opportunities for disaster capitalists – and they’ve been only too happy to take them.
The prefabricated homes built across Britain in the 1940s were more than just emergency housing – they were a rapid response to crises of overcrowding and poor accommodation that were remarkably similar to today.
The privatisation of British Gas has led to attacks on workers’ rights and a bad deal for consumers – essential services like energy supply should be owned and run in the public interest, not for corporate profit.
In the 1980s, CEOs in Britain earned 20 times average worker salaries. Today, it is 120 times. This explosion in income inequality is not an accident – it is the direct result of policies pushed by our political and economic elites.