Cold Homes Kill
Energy companies and slum landlords are banking hundreds of billions while hospitals fill up with people made sick by cold, mouldy homes — a public health crisis caused by total greed.
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Erdogan’s Attack on Democracy Has British Fingerprints
While Erdogan wages war on Turkey’s workers’ movement by jailing socialist MPs, the British police’s harassment of London’s Kurdish community reveals how much this authoritarianism has stretched to Britain.
The Beast of British Trotskyism
For decades, Gerry Healy was the leading figure of the British Trotskyist movement — a serial rapist, bully and liar who used his authoritarian sect to facilitate his crimes.
A Victory for the Miners
Successive governments denied former miners their full pensions, condemning thousands to further hardship after the decimation of their communities. Now, at last, Labour is correcting this historic injustice.
Going Back to Class
The Workers’ Party of Belgium is defying the trend of leftist movements losing touch with the working class by using community organising to build a Marxist party with mass appeal.
Anti-Zionist Israeli MP: ‘I Will Never Surrender’
Ofer Cassif — currently suspended from the Knesset for opposing genocide in Gaza — discusses Israel’s descent into fascism, building the movement that can defeat Netanyahu, and why he will never give up the fight for Palestinian freedom.
Exhibiting Emo!
A new fan-produced Barbican exhibition showcases the dramatic mid-2000s emo subculture. But does its focus narrow, rather than illuminate, a still ongoing cultural phenomenon?
My Hunger Strike Against Genocide
Lizzie Greenwood is on day 31 of her hunger strike, consuming just 250 calories a day — the same as what Palestinians in Gaza endure. Writing for Tribune, she vows to continue until arms sales stop.
Finding Communism in Katy Perry?
A new book by Toby Manning argues that the best music of the past 60 years has often reflected, foreshadowed or even embraced the turmoil and radicalism of its time.
The Students Can Beat Apartheid Again
The movement to defend 7 LSE students suspended for pro-Palestine activism can take inspiration from the 1960s, when a wave of protests and occupations defeated the university’s attempt to crush opposition to white supremacist Rhodesia.
Private Equity Is Coming for Your Pets
Private equity is taking over vet services to raise prices and close down clinics where workers demand better wages — showing that nothing is safe from their profiteering, even our pets.
Making the Super-Rich Pay
Under the leadership of Brazil’s socialist president, the G20 has made a historic agreement to tax the world’s super-rich — now it’s time to make that deal a reality.