Coronavirus Is Breaking the Foster Care System
Josh Gabert-Doyon
Coronavirus has exposed the systematic undervaluing of social reproduction work – and nowhere more so than in the foster care system, writes Josh Gabert-Doyon.
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Letters: Don’t Applaud Us, Protect Us – #ChantforPPE
health professionals
Exclusive: 80 health professionals - including doctors, nurses, professors and the editors of Britain's leading medical journals - write of being concerned about the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, and ask the public to #ChantforPPE
Analysis: This Week’s Oil Price Slump Signals Economic Dangers Ahead
James Meadway
For the first time in history, the price of West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark standard for US oil, became negative on Monday. James Meadway argues this is both a symptom of the catastrophic economic impact of Covid-19 on the world economy and a harbinger of problems to come.
Opinion: To Understand Why the NHS Is Struggling to Respond to Covid-19, We Must Look at Who Runs It
Jo Sutton-Klein
Coronavirus has highlighted the inertia of the NHS. This is not just down to incompetent yet powerful managers, writes doctor Jo Sutton-Klein, it is a problem with the very structures that govern our health service, impeding democracy and keeping frontline staff out of decision-making.
Analysis: What Keir Starmer’s Ambition of ‘Unity’ Really Means
Oliver Eagleton
Achieving 'unity' in a party that encompasses irreconcilable traditions is an unlikely feat - but that doesn't mean the left shouldn't see a role for itself in setting the party's agenda under Starmer, says Oliver Eagleton.
‘Don’t talk about class’: Under Starmer, Labour Is Reverting Back to Its Old Ways
Ben Tippet
As Keir Starmer takes the helm as Labour leader, judging by his suspected new appointments, we are set to see the party revert back to its pre-Corbyn position on class: namely, that it is not to be talked about, writes Ben Tippet.
Domestic Abuse Refuges Need Proper Funding – Not a Social Media Campaign
Jessie Williams
Domestic abuse campaigners are criticising the government for its tone-deaf response to tackling the rise in domestic violence during lockdown. A social media campaign may make people feel less alone, but what is desperately needed is substantial funding to ensure that all victims are protected, writes Jessie Williams.
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.
Report: Labour Official Who Undermined Party and Mocked Staff Was in Running for General Secretary Under Starmer
Aaron Bastani
Exclusive: Emilie Oldknow, a former senior official at Labour HQ and a union executive, who plotted to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and called colleagues 'pube head' and 'smelly cow', was in the running for Labour's top job. Aaron Bastani reports.
Coronavirus Means Unpaid Domestic Labour Might Finally Get the Recognition It Deserves
Grace Blakeley
As the coronavirus crisis wears on, it will become increasingly difficult to ignore the gendered division of labour in our society, which sees the work undertaken, mostly by women, sidelined and devalued. Perhaps, in the aftermath, that will change, writes Grace Blakeley.
International: Locked Down But Not Out: 15,000 Sign Up to Rent Strike Campaign in Spain
Coordinadora de Vivienda de Madrid
Despite the country having become a pandemic hotspot with over 18,000 deaths, Spanish landlords are continuing to force evictions upon people who are unable to make rental payments, or who are forced to squat by long waiting lists. But tenants' unions and mutual aid groups are fighting back.
Report: Labour Staff Members Express Dismay With Union’s Response to Leaked Documents
Aaron Bastani
Rank-and-file Labour staffers have told Novara Media they feel “stunned” at their branch executive’s choice to emphasise the fact of the leak over its extraordinary contents, writes Aaron Bastani.
‘I Tried to End My Life’: Covid-19 Exposes the Injustice of ‘never-ending’ Prison Sentences
Naomi Larsson and Alexandra Genova
Under the new coronavirus restrictions, the safety and wellbeing of prisoners still jailed under the draconian and now-abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence will be put at further risk. In an exclusive video and article, prisoners currently serving the sentence speak to Novara Media about how they are being impacted.
Opinion: 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.
Opinion: The Labour Party’s Culture War Over Racism Has Pitted Marginalised Communities Against One Another
Ash Sarkar
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.
Opinion: ‘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.
‘I’m terrified of going back to the streets’: Coronavirus Shows We Could End Street Homelessness
HG
The government have housed thousands of homeless people overnight, but campaigners say extra support must extend beyond lockdown or rough sleepers will be worse off than before, writes HG.
Report: ‘It’s going to be a long night’ – How Members of Labour’s Senior Management Team Campaigned to Lose
Aaron Bastani
A leaked report, seen by Novara Media, reveals the extent to which senior Labour figures sought to undermine their own party’s chances in the 2017 general election.