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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
University bosses have spent the last decade attacking pay and pensions and stripping bare the conditions that once formed the basis of a career in higher education. Now, members of UCU are rising to take back what is theirs.
Tax is about political choices. At the worst possible time, our government just made all the wrong ones.
Today’s budget was an unashamed handout to the rich. Workers aren’t going to take it lying down, and everyone seems to know it – except the government.
Today’s move by Royal Mail to rip up agreements with the CWU is the biggest attack on workers in a generation. If it isn’t fought, we could see the derecognition of a strong union and the fragmentation of our postal service.
As a state bureaucracy, the Treasury is too controlling, conservative and elitist. Liz Truss’s attacks on it won’t make it work for ordinary people – but she’s right that change is needed, writes an anonymous civil servant.
Apsana Begum returns to work today. Her treatment is a nauseating example of the Labour leadership’s willingness to abandon Muslim women and domestic abuse survivors if they don’t have the right political friends.
Named for a colonial leader and built under the same deregulatory drive imposed on newly independent nations, the Grenfell Tower fire wasn’t solely a disaster of the present – it was proof of empire’s long and continuing shadow.
The Global South’s resilience against economic shock has been systematically stripped away – both by debt, and by the austerity countries had to accept to get loans in the first place. That debt must be forgiven.
In her award-winning novel ‘Summer Fun’, Jeanne Thornton writes of pop, politics, and the pleasures and pressures of transgender life.
Behind the rise of ‘cult-like’ multi-level marketing lies the fact that our economic system leaves growing numbers of people isolated, insecure – and keen to believe the promises of businesses that sell themselves as a way out.
While Kwasi Kwarteng weighs up ditching the bankers’ bonus cap, normal workers are told to show ‘restraint’ and quietly accept a decade of flatlining wages. It’s all designed to keep wealth moving in its current direction: upward.
Ruling Labour for a Green New Deal’s conference motion ‘out of order’ stifles debate about public ownership just as public support for it reaches new heights. It needs to be put back on the agenda.
In the US, freight railroad workers have been pushed to breaking point while the rail carriers profit more than ever – and while a strike was averted in the early hours of Thursday morning, it isn’t off the table.
Jean-Luc Godard’s shift from narrative cinema to the avant-garde was rooted in an ITV commission to make a film about Britain – beginning the director’s decades of experiments in integrating film and revolutionary politics.
The ruling class loves to cry ‘free speech’ when it serves its culture war. The arrest of republican protestors this week has proved just how superficial that commitment really is.
While other countries bring in rent freezes and caps to help people face winter, guidance in England just says rent hikes should be ‘fair and realistic’. It might be laughable if it wasn’t pushing hundreds of thousands into debt and poverty.
While the Treasury talks about scrapping caps on bankers’ bonuses, real wages in the UK fell 2.9% last year. The only way to change it: build trade union power so workers can bargain for better.
This week, Grace speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist and scholar. They discuss who is profiting from the criminal justice system, how existing institutions within the system serve to support and reinforce capitalist social relations, and what a socialist conception of justice looks like.
Emma, a 45-year-old postal worker, survived cancer only to find her life plagued by low wages and overwork. Now, she’s on the picket line taking on Royal Mail – and demanding respect for the workers they once clapped.
The ten days of national mourning over Queen Elizabeth II has temporarily taken over the national conversation – but it can’t cover up the scandal of Britain’s growing poverty for long.