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Jenna Norman is a London-based writer and campaigner.
Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer have seized on the latest crisis as an opportunity for macho posturing – but bellicose rhetoric won’t help Ukraine, and it could drag Europe into a devastating war.
Amid the cost of living crisis, April’s National Insurance hike will squeeze workers while the wealth of the rich continues to accumulate – it’s time to demand tax justice.
Keir Starmer’s accusation that anti-war activists were siding with the West’s ‘enemies’ were nothing new – they are part of a campaign to question the loyalties of dissenters which stretches back at least as far as the First World War.
Jeff Bezos’ new superyacht is so big that it may require a historic Rotterdam bridge to be dismantled to allow it to reach the sea – a perfect illustration of capitalism’s idiotic excesses.
London’s Barbican and the adjacent Golden Lane estate are symbols of the two souls of post-war social democracy, and how it built for both the intelligentsia and the working class.
Leaving social care in private hands has allowed an essential service to line the pockets of profiteers while residents and staff suffer – but there is an alternative: taking the system into public ownership.
The Post Office scandal was an enormous miscarriage of justice that ruined dozens of lives — and a stark warning about the consequences of involving the private sector in our vital public institutions.
The Post Office scandal was an enormous miscarriage of justice that ruined dozens of lives – and a stark warning about the consequences of involving the private sector in our vital public institutions.
Keir Starmer’s latest attack on Stop the War had nothing to do with peace. Its aim was simple: to convince the hawks who dominate Western foreign policy that Labour no longer stands in the way of their warmongering.
As bills soar and wages flatline, the Tories are betting that we won’t stand up for ourselves – but this weekend will see protests across Britain that can prove them wrong.
As energy bills soar and the climate crisis deepens, there’s only one long-term solution for the energy sector: bringing it into public ownership.
The National Union of Students turns 100 today. The best way to mark the moment is to join the struggle against a government hellbent on failing students across the board.
As the government cuts back on the social safety net amid rising food prices, it’s never been clearer that hunger is a political choice – it’s time to legislate to ensure everyone has the right to food.
As the cost of living crisis bites, this week’s new government appointments make it clear there’s only one item on the prime minister’s agenda: saving his own skin.
This week, Grace speaks with author Laurie Penny about the resurgence of gendered violence, building a culture of consent, and how women can organise to resist oppression.
By pushing through a real-terms cut in social security payments, the Tories are driving millions of vulnerable people into poverty – more evidence that the cost of living crisis is a political choice, not a force of nature.
The cost of living crisis isn’t new. From a record pay freeze to a shredded social safety net, it’s been building for years – and workers can’t take another hit.
Tech corporations have wormed their way into every aspect of our lives. Regulation isn’t enough: we need democratic control over the digital economy.
Today’s right-wingers are hoping to solve the inflation crisis like they did in the 1970s: through hiking interest rates and suppressing wages. That’s how economists wage class war.
Workers face a stark decline in living standards amid rising bills and stagnant wages – the trade union movement must organise resistance or risk irrelevance.