Opinion

C4’s Dispatches Programme on the ‘Truth About Traveller Crime’ Was a Pack of Lies

Jake Bowers

Romani journalist and broadcaster Jake Bowers argues Channel 4's latest broadcast about the Gypsy and Traveller community amounts to inciting racial hatred against one of Britain’s most marginalised ethnic communities.

We Are Angry Too. But Now Is Not the Time to Quit the Labour Party, We Must Stay and Defend It

Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett

It is difficult to do justice to the anger we feel at the revelations exposed by the leaked Labour report, write MPs Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett. But it is precisely because we are so aggrieved that we - and you - must stay to see this through.

The Labour Party’s Culture War Over Racism Has Pitted Marginalised Communities Against One Another

The Labour party's selective objection to racism for factional purposes put Jewish members in the firing line of an internecine battle, pitted communities against one another, and threw black and Muslim members to the wolves, writes Ash Sarkar.

‘I feel both furious and vindicated’: the Leaked Report Explains Why Labour Didn’t Help Me After Grenfell

Emma Dent Coad

Former MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, is described as a 'grade 1 tool' in the leaked Labour report. If senior Labour party figures hadn't held her in such contempt, she writes, perhaps they would have supported her campaign in 2017 and sent additional caseworkers in the aftermath of the Grenfell fire.

Matt Hancock Thinks Footballers Should Be Paid Less Because They’re Working Class

Jessy Parker Humphreys

Why has the government suggested footballers be paid less, while Premier League directors - not to mention billionaires like Richard Branson - are allowed to keep their enormous incomes? Because unlike other top earners, the vast majority didn't go to private school, writes sports journalist Jessy Parker Humphreys.

An Unprecedented Economic Crisis Is About to Hit the Global South. We Must Cancel Debts Now

Grace Blakeley

Economic turmoil is about to hit the global South, as the instability of a global pandemic sends investors fleeing. Wealthy nations must write off debts immediately, argues Grace Blakeley, to avoid catastrophe in the world's poorest countries.

Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground

Eleanor Penny

Trans bathroom panics may seem trivial - a bad-faith media circus, a creepy fixation on where total strangers empty their body’s waste products - but public toilets have long been a key political battleground in an ongoing fight over whose bodies are worthy of dignity, writes Eleanor Penny, in the first of a new series on 'filth'.

The Corona-Crisis Reveals There Is No Such Thing As Low-Skilled Labour

Phil Jones

The coronavirus pandemic has shown that our lives are in fact precariously balanced on the supposedly low-skilled labour of others - a vast majority of them women. This ugly revelation is a chance to learn and reimagine the way we value work, writes Phil Jones.

Labour Can Only Win by Building on the Corbyn Era, Not Destroying It

Aaron Bastani

Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership twice, despite a war waged against him from within the party and by the media. He won for a reason, writes Aaron Bastani; if the next Labour leader wants to become prime minister they must acknowledge this, and build on his legacy, not destroy it.

By Letting Small Businesses Fail, the State Is Handing Power to Corporate Giants

Grace Blakeley

The world’s biggest businesses will benefit from the coronavirus crisis as they devour the carcasses of their smaller rivals, writes Grace Blakeley. But this is not just the nature of the market, it comes down to who the government chooses to help and who it chooses to abandon.

Coronavirus Has Shown That Care Services Are Vital. Now Let’s Build a State That Cares

Lynne Segal and Catherine Rottenberg

Moments of rupture provide us with a critical opportunity to imagine and create a different world, write Lynne Segal and Catherine Rottenberg. If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything so far, it is that we are in urgent need of a politics that puts care front and centre.

Covid-19 has forced the government to make drastic changes to the fundamental structure of the NHS as, under pressure to meet the demands of a pandemic, the internal market has fallen apart overnight, writes junior doctor Jo Sutton-Klein. We must demand that changes made now stay in place after the coronavirus crisis.

C4’s Dispatches Programme on the ‘Truth About Traveller Crime’ Was a Pack of Lies

Jake Bowers

We Are Angry Too. But Now Is Not the Time to Quit the Labour Party, We Must Stay and Defend It

Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett

The Labour Party’s Culture War Over Racism Has Pitted Marginalised Communities Against One Another

Ash Sarkar

‘I feel both furious and vindicated’: the Leaked Report Explains Why Labour Didn’t Help Me After Grenfell

Emma Dent Coad

Matt Hancock Thinks Footballers Should Be Paid Less Because They’re Working Class

Jessy Parker Humphreys

An Unprecedented Economic Crisis Is About to Hit the Global South. We Must Cancel Debts Now

Grace Blakeley

Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground

Eleanor Penny

The Corona-Crisis Reveals There Is No Such Thing As Low-Skilled Labour

Phil Jones

Labour Can Only Win by Building on the Corbyn Era, Not Destroying It

Aaron Bastani

By Letting Small Businesses Fail, the State Is Handing Power to Corporate Giants

Grace Blakeley

Coronavirus Has Shown That Care Services Are Vital. Now Let’s Build a State That Cares

Lynne Segal and Catherine Rottenberg

The Covid Financial Crisis Will Require a Much Stronger Response Than the Last Crisis

James Meadway

More People Won’t Die Because of a Recession Than Because of Coronavirus

Aaron Bastani

From Geopolitics to High Streets, Covid-19 Will Change Everything. Here’s Why.

Aaron Bastani

Undocumented Migrants Must Be Given Access to Healthcare and Welfare

Benjamin Morgan

Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked

Jo Sutton-Klein

Coronavirus Will Expose the Vast Inequality Between the Global North and South

Grace Blakeley

Release Women From Prison and Give Them the Support They Need

Sophia Benedict

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C4’s Dispatches Programme on the ‘Truth About Traveller Crime’ Was a Pack of Lies

Jake Bowers

We Are Angry Too. But Now Is Not the Time to Quit the Labour Party, We Must Stay and Defend It

Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett

The Labour Party’s Culture War Over Racism Has Pitted Marginalised Communities Against One Another

Ash Sarkar

‘I feel both furious and vindicated’: the Leaked Report Explains Why Labour Didn’t Help Me After Grenfell

Emma Dent Coad

Matt Hancock Thinks Footballers Should Be Paid Less Because They’re Working Class

Jessy Parker Humphreys

An Unprecedented Economic Crisis Is About to Hit the Global South. We Must Cancel Debts Now

Grace Blakeley

Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground

Eleanor Penny

The Corona-Crisis Reveals There Is No Such Thing As Low-Skilled Labour

Phil Jones

Labour Can Only Win by Building on the Corbyn Era, Not Destroying It

Aaron Bastani

By Letting Small Businesses Fail, the State Is Handing Power to Corporate Giants

Grace Blakeley

Coronavirus Has Shown That Care Services Are Vital. Now Let’s Build a State That Cares

Lynne Segal and Catherine Rottenberg

The Covid Financial Crisis Will Require a Much Stronger Response Than the Last Crisis

James Meadway

More People Won’t Die Because of a Recession Than Because of Coronavirus

Aaron Bastani

From Geopolitics to High Streets, Covid-19 Will Change Everything. Here’s Why.

Aaron Bastani

Undocumented Migrants Must Be Given Access to Healthcare and Welfare

Benjamin Morgan

Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked

Jo Sutton-Klein

Coronavirus Will Expose the Vast Inequality Between the Global North and South

Grace Blakeley

Release Women From Prison and Give Them the Support They Need

Sophia Benedict

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