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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has launched a ‘Brazil Can’t Stop’ campaign to encourage people to work despite coronavirus. His disastrous response typifies a right-wing that values profits ahead of people’s lives.
The devastation brought by coronavirus has been hugely magnified by an irrational system that measures human life in terms of profit. We need a plan to build a better society in its aftermath.
In response to coronavirus, management in some hospitals are pushing through reforms to workers’ conditions and NHS services they planned before the crisis. To protect the NHS, we’ll need to fight back.
In the West Bank and Gaza, coronavirus has exposed the impact of Israel’s decades-long occupation – and left many Palestinians without the healthcare they need to survive.
With a coronavirus vaccine on the horizon, it’s time for governments to ensure that public investment in research results in rewards for public health – not obscene profits for Big Pharma.
Yugoslav partisan and Communist leader Josip Broz Tito died 40 years ago today. We remember his meeting with Nye Bevan in 1951, which earned Bevan the nickname ‘the Tito from Tonypandy.’
Last month, postal workers offered to provide an emergency service to keep the country running during coronavirus. Rather than support them, Royal Mail refused to even listen to concerns over their safety.
Despite today’s defeat for the Left in the leadership election, Corbyn’s policies remain overwhelmingly popular among Labour members – and are the only way out of the economic crisis we find ourselves in.
Now is not the time for the socialist movement to fracture and fragment. After today’s defeat, we need to organise and rebuild – and the best place to do that is in the Labour Party.
The coronavirus crisis has lifted the lid on Britain’s economy – where one in ten workers are precariously employed – and demonstrated the case for secure work and strong trade unions.
Today would have been Tony Benn’s 95th birthday. We remember his contributions to the Labour Party, democracy and socialism.
In response to coronavirus, football’s billionaire owners are asking minimum wage staff to take pay cuts while corporate elites earn eye-watering sums. It’s a sign of the sickness in the soul of the game.
Today would have been Tony Benn’s 95th birthday. We remember his contributions to the Labour Party, democracy and socialism.
Whether it’s landlords demanding rent from penniless tenants or construction magnates forcing unsafe sites to stay open, coronavirus has revealed the reality of Britain’s housing game – and how it’s rigged for the rich.
Last month, the first GP in Britain died from coronavirus. But still thousands are going to work without the proper protection. It’s just one part of the government’s scandalous failure of healthcare workers.
Now is not the time to repeat the mistakes of 2008. Any public money that bails out corporations must come with an ownership stake, guarantees for workers and benefits for society, argues Grace Blakeley.
Thursday morning is the last opportunity to vote in Labour’s leadership election. If you’re a late voter and still undecided, here’s why you should back Rebecca Long-Bailey.
Manolis Glezos was just 19 when he sparked Greece’s anti-Nazi resistance by tearing down the swastika from the Acropolis. He passed away this week after almost a century of struggle on behalf of the oppressed.
Coronavirus has exposed the folly of public service cuts and the pursuit of profit above all else – it’s time for a new spirit of collectivity, argues Jon Trickett.
Coronavirus has forced the government to suspend rail franchising – now it should take the entire system back into public ownership in a way that empowers workers and improves services, argues Andy McDonald.