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GE2019: Activists Are Helping Homeless People and Mental Health Patients Register to Vote
Just 2% of homeless people are registered to vote - most don't know they're able to. Sophie Hemery reports on how after a decade of austerity cuts, the most marginalised in society are often the most disenfranchised, and on efforts to change this.
GE2019: Labour Needs a Bold Climate Vision in This Election – Including a 2030 Decarbonisation Target
In what is being touted as the UK's first 'climate election', Aliya Yule argues it's up to the Labour party to put forward the strong vision required to tackle the climate crisis.
Report: Universal Credit Is Riddled With Issues, but Have Some Flaws Been Deliberately Designed Into the System?
Universal credit has proved so unfit for purpose that Labour has said it will replace it entirely if elected next month. But perhaps the most controversial element of the policy is mounting evidence that suggests some of its cruellest flaws aren't accidental failings; the Tories may have deliberately built them in to the system to deter claimants.
International: Bolivia’s Coup Threatens the Struggle for Social Liberation and Economic Justice
Driven by the urban middle classes and ultra-right regional elites, the coup currently taking place in Bolivia is in large part a backlash against nearly a decade and a half of redistributive and pro-indigenous policies. Olivia Arigho-Stiles explains.
GE2019: Nigel Farage’s Climbdown Has Made This Election Clearer. Only Labour Can Defeat the Right
News that the Brexit party will not be running against 317 Tory MPs has thrown this election into stark relief. For the Liberal Democrats and particularly the Greens it poses a question - what do you stand for? For Labour it means something important: it can only win this election fighting on class politics and against the elite - and Farage just made that a whole lot easier.
GE2019: Asymmetric Advertising Is the New Fake News, and the Tories May Be Using It to Hijack Your Social Media
Social media could win this election and the Tories know they are at a disadvantage, with users skewing young and leftwing. Researcher Stuart Mills thinks the Conservatives may have come up with a hack: using deliberately bad or contentious content to try and bait us into sharing their posts.
Opinion: The Guardians of the Jewish ‘Mainstream’ Have Their Own Questions to Answer Over Jews’ Corbyn Fears
Douglas Gerrard argues the fact that 87% of British Jews think Corbyn is an antisemite is hard to stomach, but it's crucially important to understand the combination of factors that led us to this point.
Essex Lorry Deaths: Now We Know What Happened, We Must Start a Radical Conversation on Immigration
All 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry container in Essex last month have now been identified. As the final details of the tragedy emerge, Calais volunteer Abby Meadows argues we must insist on a radical conversation about migration - about how we treat people trying to enter the UK or in the country 'illegally', regardless of whether society considers them refugees or economic migrants.
GE2019: Exposing School Cuts Will Be the Key to Beating Boris Johnson
Despite four years of cuts to schools in Britain, the Tories continue to promise additional school funding. Primary school teacher and NUT member James McAsh argues that exposing school cuts is the key to unlocking the next general election.
GE2019: The Liberal Democrats Are Making a Tory Brexit Far More Likely
The legacy of Charlie Kennedy was a formidable party to the left of Labour on many issues. That of Nick Clegg was austerity for the country and organisational collapse. And Swinson? She’ll be happy enough if her party doubles in size while the Tories govern and Britain cuts a trade deal with Trump’s America, writes Aaron Bastani. As far as she is concerned it’s good for business - whatever the consequences.
GE2019: Green Tories? Don’t Believe the Hype
Boris Johnson claims his party is taking action on climate change. He's lying, argues Adrienne Buller; any decrease in fossil fuel emissions in the last decade has happened in spite of Tory policies, not because of them.
GE2019: The Media Is Biased Against Jeremy Corbyn – but Does That Even Matter in This Election?
As a general election approaches, the biased British press is expected to ramp up its campaign to delegitimise and demonise Jeremy Corbyn, writes professor Bart Cammaerts. But how much power does the press actually have anymore, when social media now allows politicians to speak directly to the electorate?
International: Spain’s Coming Election Will Determine the Next Phase of Its Constitutional Crisis
Gripped in what seems like a perpertual state of constitutional crisis, Spain heads to the polls for its fourth general election in as many years on Sunday. Javier Moreno Zacarés examines PSOE's tight-rope walk, the fractures in the left, and how recent Catalan unrest complicates the situation.
GE2019: From Cancelled Operations to Staff Shortages, the Writing Is on the Wall for the NHS Under the Tories
New data reveals that in the last year a staggering 78,981 operations were cancelled in the NHS - the most common reasons being staff shortages and equipment failures. A junior doctor explains how things got so bad under the Tories.
GE2019: Why on Earth Shouldn’t People Be Able to Be Billionaires?
BBC radio host Emma Barnett reacted with scornful disbelief on Thursday, when Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle argued that nobody in the UK should be a billionaire. Economist Grace Blakeley explains why Barnett is wrong to peddle the myth that the mega rich contribute to this country.
GE2019: ‘Within Our Grasp’: What Labour Is Up Against and What It Will Take to Win
In his leadership campaign Johnson promised the Tories two things: Brexit by 31 October, and smashing Corbyn's Labour party. Labour's campaign has got off to a flying start, but there is precisely no room for complacency, argues James Meadway.
GE2019: This Election Is Where We Decide the Planet’s Future
With vast swathes of the planet quite literally on fire, 71% of Britons agree climate crisis is a more pressing issue than Brexit, writes Eleanor Penny. But while Labour is offering a potentially transformative Green New Deal, the Tories have an actual fracking lobbyist writing their manifesto.
GE2019: Labour Can Win This Election, But Only If It Goes Beyond 2017
With a general election set to happen this year after all, Aaron Bastani argues Labour can win. Here’s how.