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Report: Stop the Flight: Jamaica Deportation Shows Tories ‘Doubling Down’ on Hostile Environment, Activists Say

by Sophie K Rosa

Just a week after a report found the government’s hostile environment policies broke equalities law and contributed to injustices faced by the Windrush generation, the Home Office plans to deport up to 50 men to Jamaica on Wednesday. Sophie K Rosa reports as activists race to stop the flight.

Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

by Aurelien Mondon

The idea that Trump and Brexit were working-class revolts is a dangerous myth, one the president's recent electoral defeat has done little to dispel, writes Aurelien Mondon.

Whipping Boy

Keir Starmer was once a leading figure in Labour’s shift to backing a second referendum. However, now he’s in charge of the party, he looks set to whip MPs to back a Tory Brexit deal. Does this dramatic shift show Starmer has acted dishonestly over the past four years, or is he just adapting Labour […]

Long Read: Arctic Turbulence: Why Indigenous Communities Are Fighting Wind Farms

by S Reid-Collins

Construction is continuing on the Øyfjellet Wind Park, which is set to become Norway's largest onshore wind farm. But the site runs right through the Jillen-Njaarke reindeer herding district, leading the Indigenous South Saami people to enter a battle for existence.

The 21st Century Crisis Nobody Talks About: Demographic Ageing

Humanity is getting older. But while the old outnumbering the young is one of the supreme achievements of our species, it comes with major challenges. Aaron Bastani on a crisis set to re-define societies around the world which, for the 21st century at least, is every bit as disruptive as climate change.

woman window coronavirus shielding shielder

Opinion: Shielders Have Been Abandoned During Lockdown – It Can’t Happen Again

by Jamie Hale

The government has failed shielding people in this second lockdown, argues Jamie Hale. It must act quickly and decisively to ensure they get the support they need and deserve.

An Empire Rises, an Empire Falls

While COVID-19 has killed Arcadia, it has cemented Amazon as the world’s dominant retail firm. David Adler joins the show to discuss what does the rise of Bezos’s empire, and the fall of Green’s, mean for both the planet and for workers? With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial

Long Read: How Do We Solve a Problem Like Amazon?

by Craig Gent

Amazon isn’t the type of problem that can simply be fixed, writes Craig Gent. In order to take on one of the defining companies of our era, we need to make Amazon's punishing work process our business.

Nightmarch: The Inner World of the Naxalites

Alpa Shah spent seven nights on a secret march with communist guerrillas in India. She joins James Butler to tell their story.

Opinion: For the People and for the Planet – It’s Time to Make Amazon Pay

by Casper Gelderblom

In just a few years, Amazon has established itself as a node in the circuitry of globalism capitalism. Today we launch a common movement to pull the plug, writes the Progressive International's Casper Gelderblom.

Student's occupying a tower in Manchester

Report: Is Coronavirus Incubating a New Student Movement?

by Sophie K Rosa

Universities duped students into returning to campus, only to lock them down in halls. Angry and abandoned, students have organised rent strikes, occupations and protests. Is the experience of Covid on campus radicalising a new generation? Sophie K Rosa reports.

Opinion: Joe Biden Is Toying With Forgiving Student Loans. He Should Wipe Them Out Altogether

by Micah Uetricht

In a marked departure from his previously unsympathetic stance, Joe Biden is considering forgiving student loans. But while this is no doubt a welcome shift, argues Micah Uetricht, the left must now put pressure on Biden to go much further — and cancel them all.

Opinion: I’m a Discrimination Lawyer – the Labour Party Has Probably Broken the Law by Removing the Whip From Jeremy Corbyn

by David Renton

It's unlikely Keir Starmer's punishment of his predecessor would stand up in court, writes specialist discrimination barrister David Renton.

Opinion: Sunak’s Spending Review Is a Drop of Water in a Desert – the Left Must Demand More

by James Meadway

From divide-and-rule public sector pay freezes to ripe-for-corruption local spending schemes, Sunak's plan is radically insufficient for our current crisis. The left must forward an alternative, and quick, writes James Meadway.

Sunak’s Spending Review

With a public sector pay freeze and cuts to foreign aid, has Rishi Sunak’s spending review shown him to be a typical Tory class warrior? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and James Meadway.

Can Britain Become an ‘Innovation Superpower’ After Brexit? | Aaron Bastani Meets David Edgerton

For Brexiteers Britain’s departure from the EU offers a shot at national renewal, with the country once more becoming a free trade and innovation superpower. But how likely is that, and are the Tories really serious about a break with the politics of the last 40 years? Aaron Bastani interviews Professor David Edgerton, author of […]

Jeremy Corbyn meets supporters in Middlesbrough, 11 December 2019.

Opinion: Who Will Represent the Young Now?

by Ash Sarkar

Corbynism was a window in which young people were taken seriously, writes Ash Sarkar. But with Keir Starmer as Labour leader, that window has been firmly slammed shut – and likely with great political consequence.

Covid for Christmas

With a vaccine ready for the new year, why is Boris Johnson risking giving Britain’s grandparents covid for Christmas? #TyskySour with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.