The Energy Crisis Is Forcing Families into Record Debt
Even before the April price hike, British families were £2.1 billion in energy debt. Capping prices at today’s levels won’t do – we need a real reduction and public ownership.
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Billy Anania
Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
A Reliquary of Modern Wales
Richard King’s oral history of post-war, pre-devolution Wales centres on the tensions between socialism and nationalism, and how each responded to the destruction of Wales’ industrial modernity.
Justice for Chris Kaba
Since 1990, there have been over 1,800 deaths in police custody or following police contact and almost zero accountability. Chris Kaba is another victim of a brutal, uncontrollable Met, and his family deserves the truth.
The Fight for a New Chile Goes On
The defeat of Chile’s draft constitution is a blow, but support for replacing the Pinochet-era document remains strong – and the necessity of burying neoliberalism’s legacy is as vital as ever.
How Scotland’s Rent Freeze Was Won
Scotland’s rent freeze is a huge win for tenants’ union Living Rent. Now we need a freeze across the UK, and proper rent controls to stop landlords taking the piss for good.
An Alternative Atlas
In their anthology Queer Spaces, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell map the diversity and solidarity of LGBTQIA+ communities through buildings from Havana to London to Beirut.
To Cut the Giant Bills, Tax the Giant Profits
Energy giants are expected to make £170 billion in excess profit in the next two years. By ruling out a higher windfall tax, Liz Truss is defining her premiership from the offset: more for the rich at the expense of everyone else.
London’s Hunger Is An Avoidable Crisis
There is no reason anyone in London, one of the world’s wealthiest cities, should be going hungry. It’s time to build a system that acknowledges that fact – and ends food insecurity for good.
93. Grassroots Organising 101 w/ Sasha Josette and Olly Armstrong
This week, Grace talks to Natasha Josette and Olly Armstrong about their community organising project, Breathe. They discuss challenges and opportunities associated with community organising, how it can be linked up with other elements of political strategy like the labour movement and electoral politics, and how you can begin this sort of grassroots work in your own area.
Housing’s Double Crisis
Renting was a nightmare before the cost of living disaster. Now bidding wars and massive rent hikes are worsening a housing system already in crisis – and many simply can’t afford the hit.
Bus Workers Are Driving the Fight for Fair Pay
After bus workers kept the country moving during Covid, Arriva is now trying to slap hundreds of them in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire with a real-terms pay cut. The workers are having none of it.
Polyflor’s Suspensions Are an Attack on Workers
Polyflor workers in Manchester were set to strike last week for a fair pay offer from a company that posted record profits last year. Then management suspended all their shifts – and they don’t yet know when they’re going back.
The Country Can’t Take Truss’s Thatcher Tribute Act
Liz Truss is styling herself a 21st-century Thatcher. The problem with that is that inequality is already up, the labour movement has already been weakened, and there’s nothing left to privatise.
Virtual Reality’s Political Potential
VR documentary films can work to politicise perception, offering portals into different ways of seeing society.
Universal Credit Has Been a Disaster. It Has to Be Replaced.
As the cost of living crisis bites, the failings of Universal Credit – low rates and complicated fluctuating payments among them – are redoubling the misery for millions. It’s time to replace it with a benefits system that works.
Ghost in the Machine
Chris Blackwell’s memoir of his life between Jamaica and Britain is attuned to the uses of a posh accent in the post-colonial music industry.
Big Oil’s Disinformation War
Big Oil has waged a decades-long disinformation war to prevent the transition to renewable energy, resulting in obscene profits for fossil fuel companies, soaring bills for consumers and a climate crisis that threatens the planet.
Only Disconnect
Darren McGarvey’s second book uses the author’s authenticity to drive home the disconnection between classes in Britain; but in doing so, it reflects a cosy national consensus in Scotland.
How Hungary Abandoned Roma Refugees
In Hungary, attacks on support for refugees and prejudices aggravated by Orbán have left Roma people who crossed the border from Ukraine facing a future of deepening exclusion and insecurity.
Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. A New Constitution Could Bury It.
Today Chile is voting on a new constitution. By replacing Pinochet’s document with one that guarantees social, economic and environmental rights, Chileans have a chance to bury the legacy of neoliberalism once and for all.