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Migrants Want to Volunteer for the NHS, but the Government Isn’t Letting Them

Jessie Williams

Despite being made to feel the full force of the UK's hostile environment, many undocumented people are still eager to devote their time and skills to helping the country fight coronavirus. The government, however, is not allowing them to help, writes Jessie Williams.

Opinion: 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.

Opinion: 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.

Of Course the Right Value Old People’s Lives Less – Our Ageing Population Is a Problem for Capitalism

Aaron Bastani

As the coronavirus pandemic escalates, the lives of elderly people are increasingly portrayed as less worth saving. Given the immense problem demographic ageing presents to market capitalism, this is as unsurprising as it is unsettling, writes Aaron Bastani.

Opinion: 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'.

Freelance Work Has Always Been Precarious, Not Aspirational. Coronavirus Has Made That Clear

With the government’s most recent measure to support self-employed workers leaving many with no support at all, the dangerous and uncertain nature of freelance work has been exposed, writes Sophie McKay.

Opinion: 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.

‘We Want a Rent Strike Now’: the People Poised to Take on Their Landlords

Sophie K Rosa

In the absence of government-backed rent relief or rent suspensions, people across the country are unable to pay their rent. Sophie K Rosa speaks to some of the people ready to go on rent strike.

Beyond Bernie: the Democratic Socialists of America Are Organising for the Bigger Picture

Eleanor Salter

For the Democratic Socialists of America, the project to change the horizons of American politics does not begin and end with the presidential race. The organisation's strength lies in its ability to organise at both an electoral and grassroots level, writes Eleanor Salter.

Opinion: 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.

Opinion: 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.

Opinion: 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.

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

James Meadway

The coronavirus pandemic is bringing with it a financial crisis on a scale far beyond the crisis of 2008, writes James Meadway, and weathering it requires stronger action than anything we've seen in recent history.

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

Aaron Bastani

The idea that an economic recession would necessarily lead to more deaths than Covid-19, even if no measures are taken to slow the spread, isn’t just wrong - it’s ideological, writes Aaron Bastani.

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Services Are Normalising Debt for a Generation Who Might Never Have Mortgages

Jack Palfrey

In seeking new ways to repackage debt and sell it to millennials and Gen Zers - who are now not only disenfranchised from, but also increasingly disinterested in, the traditional debt traps of home-ownership and higher education - services like Klarna have emerged as the latest financial instrument to make the accumulation of debt feel not just normal, but desirable, writes Jack Palfrey.

Report: Out of Work and Unsupported, Sex Workers Struggle to Cope With the Coronavirus Crisis

Sophie K Rosa

Workers who are already marginalised, stigmatised and sometimes criminalised are the most vulnerable to disasters. While sex workers are organising to support each other through the Covid-19 pandemic, campaigners are demanding the government does more to help them. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Report: Cleaners Are Having to Fight for Their Own Protection in the Fight Against Covid-19

Joe Hayns

Poorly equipped, lumped with poor working conditions and facing ever-greater occupational dangers, cleaners are simultaneously at the forefront of the fight against coronavirus and among those who stand to be worst affected by its social consequences, writes Joe Hayns.

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

Aaron Bastani

When Covid-19 is eventually defeated the whole world will be very different. In its wake we must create a collective sense of purpose, writes Aaron Bastani, a shared desire to build something better than what came before.

Migrants Want to Volunteer for the NHS, but the Government Isn’t Letting Them

Jessie Williams

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

Jessy Parker Humphreys

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

Grace Blakeley

Of Course the Right Value Old People’s Lives Less – Our Ageing Population Is a Problem for Capitalism

Aaron Bastani

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

Eleanor Penny

Freelance Work Has Always Been Precarious, Not Aspirational. Coronavirus Has Made That Clear

Sophie McKay

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

Phil Jones

‘We Want a Rent Strike Now’: the People Poised to Take on Their Landlords

Sophie K Rosa

Beyond Bernie: the Democratic Socialists of America Are Organising for the Bigger Picture

Eleanor Salter

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

Aaron Bastani

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

Grace Blakeley

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

Lynne Segal and Catherine Rottenberg

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

James Meadway

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

Aaron Bastani

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Services Are Normalising Debt for a Generation Who Might Never Have Mortgages

Jack Palfrey

Report: Out of Work and Unsupported, Sex Workers Struggle to Cope With the Coronavirus Crisis

Sophie K Rosa

Report: Cleaners Are Having to Fight for Their Own Protection in the Fight Against Covid-19

Joe Hayns

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

Aaron Bastani

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Migrants Want to Volunteer for the NHS, but the Government Isn’t Letting Them

Jessie Williams

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

Jessy Parker Humphreys

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

Grace Blakeley

Of Course the Right Value Old People’s Lives Less – Our Ageing Population Is a Problem for Capitalism

Aaron Bastani

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

Eleanor Penny

Freelance Work Has Always Been Precarious, Not Aspirational. Coronavirus Has Made That Clear

Sophie McKay

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

Phil Jones

‘We Want a Rent Strike Now’: the People Poised to Take on Their Landlords

Sophie K Rosa

Beyond Bernie: the Democratic Socialists of America Are Organising for the Bigger Picture

Eleanor Salter

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

Aaron Bastani

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

Grace Blakeley

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

Lynne Segal and Catherine Rottenberg

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

James Meadway

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

Aaron Bastani

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Services Are Normalising Debt for a Generation Who Might Never Have Mortgages

Jack Palfrey

Report: Out of Work and Unsupported, Sex Workers Struggle to Cope With the Coronavirus Crisis

Sophie K Rosa

Report: Cleaners Are Having to Fight for Their Own Protection in the Fight Against Covid-19

Joe Hayns

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

Aaron Bastani

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