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Jenna Norman is a London-based writer and campaigner.
This week, Grace and Alfie Stirling, Chief Economist of the New Economics Foundation, look ahead to the Chancellor’s spring statement – which looks set to contain very few of the measures needed to tackle the cost of living crisis.
Today, billionaire Chancellor Rishi Sunak will tell us he ‘understands’ the plight of millions facing a cost of living crisis. If he truly wanted, he could avert the coming wave of poverty and hardship – here’s how.
In the middle of a cost of living crisis, the Tory government has made Britain the only major economy to hike taxes on workers. The reason is simple – they are determined to protect the profits of the rich.
In recent weeks, the Tories have been pretending to support refugees – but their Nationality and Borders Bill, which is being voted on tonight, is the harshest crackdown on migrant rights in decades.
In 2010, 60,000 food bank packages were handed out in Britain. Last year, it was 2.5 million. This is the result of political choices – and the cost of living crisis will see millions more fall into food poverty.
As the cost of living crisis bites, millions of elderly people in Britain are fighting to get by on the lowest state pension in the industrialised world. It’s a situation the Chancellor could change this week, if he wanted to.
In the decades of fascism and war, W. H. Auden’s poetry attacked a depraved elite who brought the world to the brink of catastrophe. Today, his words and warnings have lost none of their original power.
Record fuel prices have left millions struggling to pay for travel. Public transport can be the alternative – but only if years of Tory privatisation and underfunding are reversed.
In the 1930s, Dublin’s socialist New Theatre Group set out to build a workers’ theatre – one that could bring the struggles against fascism, poverty and war to life.
This month, workers who were outsourced to Serco won a spectacular victory ensuring 1,800 staff would be brought in-house on NHS contracts – a blow to the outsourcing agenda across the economy.
A new documentary looks at how US lawmakers have taken aim at the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement – and how it’s spreading around the world.
After the election of Gabriel Boric, Chile will vote on a new constitution. Pinochet’s document made proposals like a British-style NHS illegal – but now activists are hoping to enshrine public ownership in law.
On this day in 2003, the Iraq War began. It was an illegal invasion in the same mould as Putin’s war in Ukraine – but almost two decades later, its architects have faced no consequences.
Last week’s election in Colombia saw the best result for its left in decades – and confirmed Gustavo Petro as favourite to be the country’s first socialist president.
The fracking lobby is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to push its agenda once again, but there’s no future in fossil fuels – the only way out of the crisis is investment in renewal energy.
Yesterday, P&O fired 800 workers without notice over Zoom to replace them with agency staff – it is one of the most disgraceful acts in modern British industrial history.
Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor took Britain closer to revolution than at any point in its history – yet, almost two centuries later, the Irish-born radical who led the first mass workers’ movement is often denied the status he deserves.
In his inaugural address, new Chilean president Gabriel Boric salutes ‘comrade Salvador Allende,’ remembers the horrors of Pinochet – and pledges to fight the social inequality that has plagued the country.
New research shows that when collective bargaining agreements decline, inequality rises – proof that trade unions are key to fighting for justice in our economy.
This week, Grace speaks to Gary Stevenson of Gary’s Economics about the cost of living crisis – where’s it coming from, who’s paying for it, and what can we do about it.