


Greenwashing the Establishment: How the Irish Greens Sold Out Environmentalists and the Working Class
Patrick O'Donoghue

The Government Scrimped on School Safety. Now Students and Staff Are Paying the Price
James McAsh

Reopening Universities Isn’t Just a Threat to Staff and Students – It’s a Threat to Communities Too
Sarah Kraus
Reopening universities in the middle of a pandemic is a threat to the safety of staff and students. In cities like Coventry, already hit badly by Covid-19, there’s also a huge risk to the local community, writes Sarah Kraus.

Boris Johnson Wants to Blame Young People for Coronavirus. He Has Nobody to Blame but Himself
Liam Young

Keir Starmer’s Strategy is Revealing His Politics – and They Aren’t Progressive
David Wearing
The first question we need to ask of any leading Labour figure is this: are their politics managerial, or are they transformative? Although many say Starmer’s politics are yet to be defined - or are simply ‘non-ideological’ - his strategy has already told us otherwise, argues David Wearing.

David Graeber Was Right to Recognise the Importance of the Kurdish Struggle
Giran Ozcan

Boris Johnson’s Plan to Ditch the Withdrawal Agreement Shows His Mandate is Built on Lies
Aaron Bastani
Boris Johnson won the 2019 election having secured, in his words, an ‘excellent’ withdrawal agreement for the UK. If he now undermines this agreement - potentially in favour of a no deal Brexit - his mandate will be built on lies, argues Aaron Bastani.

Labour’s New Focus on ‘Competence’ Will Find Its Limits Once the Economic Downturn Hits
Oliver Eagleton

The Cosmic Right Is on the Rise in the UK. The Left Must Fight It With Reason
Keir Milburn

I Witnessed Labour Staff Working to Undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s Leadership
James Meadway
As John McDonnell's economic advisor, James Meadway saw Labour staff work to undermine the leadership through a steady drip-drip-drip of small, deliberate failures, which, he writes, added up to major dysfunction, almost certainly costing the party the 2017 election.

Experts by Experience: Benefit Claimants Should Design Our Social Security System
Ellen Clifford

Is Capitalism to Blame for Covid-19?
Aaron Bastani
Deforestation and climate change will increase the likelihood of future pandemics. Aaron Bastani asks: how many more outbreaks will it take before we realise our economic system is not only undermining the health of our planet, but our health as a species too?

What Would a Biden Presidency Mean for the Rest of the World?
David Wearing
In the context of US imperialism, the differences between presidents can feel small. But even though violence and exploitation will continue irrespective of this year's election result, the choice between Biden and Trump is a real and urgent one, argues David Wearing.

Britain’s Channel Crossings Policy Comes Straight Out of Fortress Europe’s Playbook
Chloe Haralambous and Barnaby Raine
The UK government has pledged to make Channel crossings completely “unviable” for migrants. Brexit doesn't mean we're leaving Fortress Europe - it's the birth of Fortress Britain, argue Chloe Haralambous and Barnaby Raine.

Climate Change is Still Accelerating (Even If We Aren’t Talking About It)
Aaron Bastani

Private Schools Have Always Let Wealthy Students Jump the University Queue
Mark Jago

Paranoid Hysteria is a Near-Constant Feature of Modern Conservatism
David Wearing
The right’s shrill panic about an ‘invasion’ of migrants reached new heights this week over a handful of refugees in barely seaworthy dinghies. In order to understand the forces we’re dealing with, we need to examine this hysteria itself, argues David Wearing.