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Billy Anania

Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.

Cricket’s Class Wars

The establishment often claims cricket has a ‘spirit’ that transcends the class divide. But from the sport’s early hostility to working class radicalism to the sell-off of fields under Thatcher, class is key to understanding its history.

A Green New Deal for Food

The pressures facing the agricultural sector can’t be solved by one-off tricks that entrench corporate power. Instead, we need solutions with collective ownership at the core.

Corporate Social Justice Is a Scam

Recent years have seen global corporations embrace racial justice causes for PR purposes – but the economic system they preside over continues to ensure Africa is exploited for the benefit of the super-rich.

The Radical Roots of Twee

Twee is back, and the subject of a thousand thinkpieces – but few have explored the subculture’s radical roots in feminism, punk and the fight against Margaret Thatcher.

It’s Time for a 3-Day Weekend

The launch of a 4-day week pilot scheme has seen hundreds of organisations express an interest – it’s just the latest sign that a shorter working week could be the way to fix our broken economy.

Never Trust a Tory

Partygate should be the end for Boris, but none of his replacements will bring about the change we need – a change from Tory policy itself.