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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
After a year of record heatwaves, wildfires and floods, Labour’s refusal to even debate the Green New Deal policies needed to respond to the climate crisis is a scandal – and damning of Keir Starmer’s leadership.
The bloody occupation of Afghanistan highlighted the grand delusions of Britain’s rulers – delusions that even after two decades of catastrophe, they’re still not prepared to give up on.
This week’s Cabinet reshuffle has provided plenty of column inches for the commentariat – but it will do little to change the deeply unequal Britain that the Tories have built.
From the late 70s to the early 90s, the New Architecture Movement proposed a form of building that centred the needs of people, not property developers – an idea that remains just as relevant today.
This week’s election in Norway saw Labour defeat the Conservative government – but the radical left also gained seats, raising hopes of a coalition to implement ambitious socialist reforms.
Next week’s German election looks set to offer the SPD a path into government – but if there is to be real change, they must align with the Left.
This week, Grace speaks to Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge, authors of ‘Overtime’, about the historical struggle for a shorter working week – and why it should be a central demand of labour movements today.
On this day in 1931, Royal Navy sailors mutinied against enforced pay cuts, singing ‘The Red Flag’ as they refused orders. Their actions inspired workers across Britain – and sent fear through the ruling class.
The aim of government social care policy can’t just be to restore the pre-pandemic status-quo – it should be to turn social care into a service capable of transforming the lives of those who use it.
The growing use of Tasers by Britain’s police forces is a sign of increased state violence and authoritarianism – those at the front line, once again, will be marginalised communities.
Up against exploitative fast fashion and union-busting factory owners, Bangladesh’s garment workers have extended a landmark safety initiative – but the struggle for better working conditions is far from over.
Labour MP Konni Zilliacus, who was born on this day in 1894, was an impassioned fighter for socialism and liberation across the world – a fight he believed was necessary to end the scourge of war.
Justin Trudeau’s decision to call a snap election in Canada looks set to backfire – but it isn’t only the right that could gain, with the left-wing NDP on course for one of its best ever results.
In the run-up to party conference, Labour right-wingers are salivating at the prospect of another public war on the Left – but Neil Kinnock’s actual record as leader demonstrates why that is a dead end.
The architecture of Yemen, with its multi-storey towers and domes of mud brick, is under constant threat of destruction – but a new book aims to tell the story of its beauty and radicalism.
The cost of taking the bus has doubled since 1987, exposing the lies behind the privatisation and deregulation agenda – if we want decent bus services, it’s time to take them back into public hands.
A new study shows that 17 billion life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards, but there’s only one way to do it – ending the system that pollutes the world in the name of profit.
Next month, the European Electronic Warfare Convention is due to take place in Liverpool – but the city’s residents are sending a clear message: arms dealers and warmongers are not welcome in Merseyside.
Housing in Britain has already been in crisis for years – but while wages stagnate, rents outside London are now rising at their fastest rate since the financial crash.
Bin workers in Bexley have gone from being some of the lowest paid in London to some of the highest, winning pay rises and extra holidays through strike action. Their lesson is simple: organising works.