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Jenna Norman is a London-based writer and campaigner.
In Portugal, new legislation is offering workers additional rights in the ‘work from home’ world – banning out-of-hours contact, outlawing surveillance and forcing employers to pick up the tab for expenses.
In 2019, wage theft in Britain amounted to an estimated £35 billion. But unlike other forms of theft, it’s hardly ever prosecuted – because it’s a crime committed by bosses against workers.
As the pandemic exposed the crisis in Britain’s care system, trade unionists and socialist politicians in the North West are uniting to bring social care into municipal ownership, raise wages, and unionise the sector.
The practice of ‘kettling’ protestors has become increasingly popular with police in the past decade – but its widespread use is an attack on democratic rights, and has little to do with public safety.
Anne Kerr spent just six years as an MP, but in that time made a name for herself as a powerful campaigner – and a rebel whose voice wouldn’t be silenced.
New Labour was marked by its failure to break with Thatcherite continuity. Today, in everything from politics to pop culture, that sense of stasis is making its return.
The Tories justified austerity by saying we were all responsible for a crisis actually caused by elites. They’re doing the same with climate change – and we can’t fall for it.
This week, Grace speaks to David Wengrow, author of ‘The Dawn of Everything’ along with the late David Graeber, about human history, human nature, and how to change the world.
The government’s decision to cut the promised Northern Powerhouse Rail and HS2 projects exposes the reality – the Tories don’t care about transport or the North.
The activities of International Workers Aid during the 1993-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina proved the power of solidarity – and gave the Left a model of internationalism we can emulate today.
Decades of employer offensive have left workers and trade unions on the backfoot, but now they are developing new techniques to fight back in the workplace – and win.
Liberals try to shrug off corruption as a bug in our system, but it’s really a feature – one that’s been core to capitalism from the very beginning.
Rail workers want the Night Tube back as much as any other London residents – but not at the expense of the safety and work-life balance agreed by management when the service first opened.
Everywhere you look, the housing market is producing smaller spaces for higher prices. According to the PR machine, this isn’t profiteering – it’s the latest form of luxury.
No democratic society should accept the principle that its parliament includes hereditary peers or lifetime appointees – it’s time to abolish the House of Lords.
Divide-and-rule tactics by politicians and management can’t hide the obvious truth – when university staff are overworked and underpaid, their students suffer too.
While world leaders dithered over a toothless declaration at COP26, workers in Glasgow were fighting for a better future – a reminder that real change comes from below.
While global elites focus on the role corporations and politicians can play in fighting climate change, there’s only one force capable of building the just transition needed to avoid disaster: the working class.
Forged in the Partisan struggle against fascism, post-war Yugoslavia sought to build an alternative to capitalism outside the Cold War bind – and, for some decades, it succeeded.
After striking twice in twelve months, workers at Barnoldswick’s Rolls Royce factory have secured their jobs until 2025 – a significant victory, won through the power of collective action.