The reasons for widespread despair on the left are no mystery: the success of the right's 'culture war', and the loss of the Labour leadership. David Wearing argues workplace and community organising, and political education, can help us build the forms of solidarity we need to fight back.
Last week Spain’s extreme-right Vox party officially launched its own ‘patriotic’ trade union. But rather than signalling a strategic social turn, the new unit is better seen as an ‘anti-union’ and part of Vox’s wider anti-leftist strategy, write Tommy Greene and Eoghan Gilmartin.
The family is often seen as the political territory of the right. But with child poverty skyrocketing and families forced into increasingly abysmal living conditions, it’s right that Starmer wishes to reclaim it. To do so, argues Aaron Bastani, he must move beyond platitudes to a message that puts class politics at its heart.
Care homes in the UK, like much of the care sector, are highly financialised - but there are signs the model is faltering. If we’re going to improve care quality as well as wages and conditions in the sector, we need to build both worker and user-led power, argue Annie Quick and Alice Martin.
It’s often been said that the Labour party’s origins owe “more to Methodism than Marx”. Tom Watson and other ‘moderate’ former Labour MPs, however, are driven by nothing but egoism and self-promotion, argues Aaron Bastani.
Coronavirus is killing the high street, further accelerating us into a world of big data and algorithm-mediated shopping. Alan Bradshaw argues the shift could have dangerous political implications, allowing corporations to structure and rationalise our lives in previously unimagined ways.
Supermarket workers hold significant collective power over the economy - a power only compounded by the pandemic. Despite a history of underorganisation, Jessica Thorne and Seth Wheeler argue that mobilising the sector is now a matter of strategic necessity.
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