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Jenna Norman is a London-based writer and campaigner.
Since the start of the pandemic, nine new billionaires have been minted from vaccines funded in large part by public money – meanwhile, citizens of poorer countries are still waiting for their first dose.
While claiming to care about climate change, the British government has spent decades intervening to protect oil giant BP’s private profits – as well as giving it hundreds of millions in public subsidies.
A new book on Ethel Rosenberg, a Communist put to death at the height of the Cold War, exposes McCarthyism – and tells the real story of the only American woman executed without being convicted of murder.
A Palestine Action activist who occupied the roof of the Elbit Systems weapons factory in Leicester writes for Tribune about their protest – and the importance of exposing Britain’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid.
Corporate fossil fuel giants are lobbying the UK government to have the national grid converted to hydrogen – but their plans guarantee further carbon emissions and block any efforts towards net zero.
From the fight against racism to the one against child poverty, football has never been ‘apolitical’ – and taking the knee is just the latest sign that the game plays a role in deciding what kind of society we live in.
On this day in 1984, a paramilitary police operation attacked striking miners at the Orgreave coking plant. It was a crime against the working class – and 37 years later, those injured have yet to see justice.
In recent weeks, the Turkish state has launched an assault on Kurdish villages and refugee camps along the Iraqi border – stepping up its efforts to wipe out democracy and self-determination in Kurdistan.
In the 1980s, documentary photographer Paul Graham used his camera to capture the bleakness of Social Security and Unemployment Offices, painting a stark image of life under neoliberalism.
Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer prime minister, but the racism he represented remains a major force in Israeli politics – meaning no relief for the Palestinians still living under an apartheid regime.
The right-wing proclaims itself a champion of freedom, but an interrogation of its history reveals an altogether different priority – the centuries-long defence of property and the propertied.
Britain’s local newspapers could be a major player in democracy, telling community stories that are shut out of the mainstream – but with 245 titles lost in the last 15 years, their power is growing weaker by the day.
On this week’s show Grace speaks to Amelia Horgan, author of Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism, about the changing nature of work, the impact of Covid, and whether it’s possible for ‘good work’ to exist in a profit-driven world.
On this day in 2016, a Labour MP was murdered in a politically-motivated terror attack. Five years later, the threat of far-right violence is only increasing – aided by a mainstream that echoes their arguments.
New research on Vkhutemas, the Moscow school of design dubbed the ‘Soviet Bauhaus’, reveals the sheer scale of revolutionary ambitions – but also a mismatch between mundane tasks and extravagant dreams.
In May’s local elections, Croatia’s green-left platform won the capital’s assembly and its mayoralty. The new government has big plans for a clean, democratic city – but the challenges of building it under assault from the right remain.
Staff at the DVLA’s Swansea centre have been out on strike after weak workplace safety led to an outbreak of more than 600 Covid-19 cases – and with the government taking a hard line, the dispute is set to continue.
Much of the media has framed the populist right as a backlash against neoliberalism – but they share common roots in the project to defend social hierarchies against the threat of equality.
In July 1972, British snipers in West Belfast shot five people dead in a spree that was quickly covered up by the British government – half a century later, their families have yet to see truth or justice.
Four years have passed since the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 residents, but the handling of the pandemic proves that those in power have not changed – they still consider poor and marginalised people’s lives expendable.