Fighting Spotify
As musicians struggle through the pandemic, attention has turned to the exploitative practices of Spotify – which often pays as little as $0.00318 per stream. Now, artists are unionising and demanding better.
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Billy Anania
Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
The Students Fighting for a Covid Safety Net
As Covid forces students to pay £9,250 for online learning, and more to line the pockets of landlords, many are organising to ensure grade justice for those disadvantaged – despite the best efforts of university management.
Amazon Is Coming for Our Healthcare
After a string of recent deals with the NHS, Amazon is now exploring the idea of launching pharmacies in the UK – and its plan to plunder healthcare for profits and data should worry us all.
Why Poverty Is So Expensive
Ten million adults and four million children live in poverty in Britain, one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Right-wingers argue that we can’t afford to tackle this scandal – but the truth is, we can’t afford not to.
‘13 Dead, Nothing Said’: Remembering the New Cross Fire
Forty years ago today, a fire at a house party in New Cross killed 13 young black people. The racism behind the tragedy politicised a generation – and continues to shape modern Britain.
Shifting the Blame
As Britain’s Covid death toll exceeds 100,000, the government has set out to blame the public – but from the very beginning its recklessness, ineptitude and cronyism have paved the way for this tragedy.
The Quiet Disappearance of Britain’s Public Libraries
Public spending cuts have closed almost 800 libraries in the past decade – a fifth of the UK’s total. It is a campaign of vandalism against our culture and communities led by the Tory government.
How Bosses Betrayed Firefighters During a Pandemic
This week, fire service employers withdrew from a safety agreement that protected firefighters during the Covid-19 pandemic – it is just the latest example of unscrupulous bosses using a crisis to attack workers’ rights.
Memories of a Punk Poet
Poet John Cooper Clarke’s memoirs are an addictively readable set-text of a drug-fuelled, working-class and autodidactic life.
The Government Has Failed to Inoculate Against Social Inequality
The government is pinning all of its hopes on vaccine rollout – but by refusing to take effective measures to ensure the lower-paid can stay home in the meantime, they are guaranteeing further weeks of Covid disaster.
The Cosy Politics of the BBC Chair
The appointment of Tory donor and right-wing think-tanker Richard Sharp as BBC Chair strengthens the party’s grip on the broadcaster – and continues a long history of political concerns trumping the public interest.
Weegie Elegy
Douglas Stuart’s acclaimed novel Shuggie Bain paints a compelling picture of the dying days of industrial Clydeside, but its success owes much to a formal conservatism and political quietism.
Playing by the Rules
Anneliese Dodds’ speech was not as bad as advertised – but it demonstrated the fundamental problem with Labour’s new leadership: it is more concerned with appearing respectable to elites than with representing popular interests.
How Not to Save Scottish Labour
Richard Leonard’s resignation is evidence of serious problems in the Scottish Labour Party – problems which can’t be fixed by a return to Blairism, no matter what millionaire donors may think.
Solidarity Begins at the Care Home
Today, workers at a Jewish care home begin three days of strike action for fair wages, sick pay, and annual leave. Jewish Solidarity Action is mobilising the community to stand right behind them.
How Covid-19 Is Reshaping the Global South
The spread of Covid-19 across the world was facilitated by a globalised economy rigged in favour of big corporations – and the long-term consequences are likely to fall most severely on those it exploits: the countries of the Global South.
How the Outsourcing of Hospital Cleaning Fuelled the Covid Disaster
With growing concern over the spread of Covid-19 in hospitals, new figures show that outsourcing led to a £38 million cut in hospital cleaning in the past decade – with the loss of 1,000 jobs.
20. Cutting to the Bone: An Interview with Vijay Prashad
In this week’s A World to Win, Grace speaks to Marxist historian Vijay Prashad about India’s mass strikes, the rise of the far right, and the persistence of imperial power in the global economy.
Britain’s Covid Crisis: A View from the Frontline
A doctor on the frontline describes the Covid crisis in Britain’s hospitals – from staff exhausted and off sick to triaging patients, scrambling for space, hospital transmission and a death toll now exceeding 100,000.
How Women Helped to Build Peace in Northern Ireland
Women activists from across Northern Ireland’s divide played a crucial role in securing the Good Friday Agreement – and building a foundation of democracy, equality and respect which could ensure a lasting peace.