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Analysis: What Would Jesus Do? Cancel the Rent

Francis Brewer

The UK is facing a massive, and avoidable, debt crisis. Throughout history, the cancellation of debts has been used as a safety valve against social and economic collapse - and now's the time to reopen it. If it’s good enough for Christ, argues writer and activist Francis Brewer, it’s good enough for us.

Opinion: The House of Lords is a National Embarrassment – and the Joke is on Us

With the latest round of party apparatchiks sworn into the House of Lords, our political system is becoming more and more inflected by patronage and nepotism. The Lords is a place for political parties, not democracy, argues Aaron Bastani - in fact that, alas, is its point.

Report: The Co-op Network Giving Communities the Tools to Feed Themselves

Sophie K Rosa

Set up last year with the goal of having 'a food co-op on every street in every town', the Cooperation Town network is quickly growing. Sophie K Rosa finds out more.

Opinion: Mental Healthcare May Never Recover From Coronavirus

Sian Bradley

Despite a backlog of cases, the government still doesn’t have a plan for helping the already overstretched mental health sector cope with the strain brought on by Covid-19. This needs to change or the impact will be felt for years to come, argues Sian Bradley.

Report: Rachel Reeves MP Accused of Misusing Members’ Data in Attempt to Influence Labour Party Democracy

Rivkah Brown

Leeds West MP Rachel Reeves contacted Labour members encouraging them to elect her preferred slate to the party's national executive committee. While Labour says it found no evidence of a data breach, some members dispute the party's explanation, while senior Labour figures say the incident is indicative of a worrying resurgence in factional organising. Rivkah Brown reports.

Opinion: Trump Thinks He Can Use His Coronavirus Diagnosis to His Advantage. He Can’t

Micah Uetricht

Trump's attempt to spin his coronavirus diagnosis to his advantage isn't working. Micah Uetricht explains why the president's illness is the worst-case scenario for him.

Analysis: Greece’s Golden Dawn Has Been Crushed – But Its Agenda Lives On

Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

Leaders of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn have today been convicted of running a criminal gang masquerading as a political party. It marks the conclusion of a years-long inquiry by Greek courts, said to be the largest trial of Nazis since Nuremberg. But, Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou explains, its agenda lives on elsewhere.

Opinion: The Police Will Always Be Susceptible to Far Right Agitation – They Share a History of Violence

Becka Hudson

Rooted in racism and violence, the police will always be empowered by fascist agitation, writes Becka Hudson. The left needs to recognise that if policing can only shift rightwards, it must be abolished.

Opinion: If Trump Wins the US Election, It’s Countdown to War With Iran

David Wearing

If Joe Biden wins in November, the de-escalation of tensions with Iran will likely come swiftly into effect. If not, a war of unthinkable magnitude in the energy heartlands of the planet becomes not just possible, but probable, argues David Wearing.

Opinion: No, the Tories Aren’t Ever Going to ‘Balance the Books’

Aaron Bastani

This year’s deficit could be three times higher than that of 2009-10, at the height of the global financial crisis. For Rishi Sunak to talk of paying down the debt is not only a retreat to cliché - it’s a withdrawal from reality, argues Aaron Bastani.

Opinion: Why Scrapping Hostile Environment Policies Would Benefit Kids, Parents and Childcare Workers

Miranda Hall and Veronica Deutsch

This year many families have scrambled for childcare solutions - often in the form of informal childcare. Against a renewed push for regularisation from some parts of the sector, Miranda Hall and Veronica Deutsch argue our sights ought to be set on the anti-migrant policies which force people to work invisibly.

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Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit

Matthew Cole

The much-prophesied “jobs apocalypse” of the fourth industrial revolution will likely never materialise. Yet that isn't to say new technologies aren't degrading work, warns Matthew Cole.

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Analysis: The Frontline of the Struggle Against Platform Capitalism Lies in São Paulo

Callum Cant

Angry food delivery workers in São Paulo are at the heart of new intra-continental solidarity networks in Latin America. But despite pulling off one of the biggest ever strikes against platform capitalism, familiar barriers to organising still need to be overcome, writes Callum Cant.

International: Duterte’s New Anti-Terror Law is Accelerating State Violence in the Philippines

Jamie Sims

Social justice activists have long been the target of state violence in the Philippines. Now, a new Anti-Terror Law is accelerating Duterte’s war on dissent, writes Jamie Sims.