Opinion: With a US Trade Deal Threatening NHS Drug Prices, could Public Pharma Save Us From Big Pharma?
Sammy Luney
Donald Trump wants the NHS to pay more for drugs. Instead we should make our own, argues junior doctor Sammy Luney.
Articles
How the US Far Right Are Trying to Interfere in Labour’s Leadership Election
Aaron Bastani
Turning Point UK - the British version of a US group with extensive links to the far right - has spent £15,000 on Facebook ads attacking the Labour party and, in particular, leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey, reveals Aaron Bastani.
Opinion: The Criminalisation of Solidarity With Rojava Should Worry Us All
Iida Käyhkö
The arrest of British YPG recruit Dan Newey's father and brother shines a light on the government's escalating campaign to criminalise people travelling to Northern Syria to join the Rojava revolution, writes Iida Käyhkö.
Opinion: Populist Austerity – This Is the Real Johnsonomics
Phil Jones
With the government nationalising Northern Rail and floating the idea of a mansion tax, what looks to some like a move to the left for the Conservatives, is in fact populist austerity in action, argues Phil Jones.
Opinion: Marketising the Mental Health Crisis: How the CBT Empire-Builders Colonised the NHS
Paul Atkinson
New Labour's flagship talking therapy service, IAPT, has become an empire, offering assembly-line state therapy to a society suffering the mental ill-health of late stage capitalism, writes psychotherapist Paul Atkinson.
Opinion: The Government’s Inadequate Response to Flooding Is Further Proof It ‘just doesn’t get’ Climate Change
Hannah Martin
Storm Dennis and Storm Ciara are just the latest in a string of increasingly severe weather events that have devastated entire regions, caused mass travel disruption, and confirmed that the UK government has no coherent or credible plan for the challenges our changing climate will inevitably bring, writes Hannah Martin.
International: Miners in Georgia Are Staging Wildcat Strikes in a Bid to Survive As Their Working Conditions Worsen
Volodya Vagner
In pictures: Manganese in one of Eastern Europe's hippest new travel destinations are dying as a result of poor working conditions, entrenched by decades of neoliberal reform. Volodya Vagner reports on the workers fighting back.
Long Read: What’s the Deal With the Green New Deal?
Alex Wood
In this long read, sociologist Alex Wood explores the limitations of current discussions around the green new deal, and asks what it would take to make the programme reflect workers' everyday experiences of capitalism.
Report: ‘If anything is worth stopping, this is’: Activists Say They Will Fight Harder, As Johnson Backs HS2
Greg Frey
Boris Johnson has approved the controversial high speed rail link connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, despite revelations about the cost of the project and the threat it poses to the environment. Greg Frey reports on the movement to stop HS2.
Report: Activists Have Occupied an Abandoned High Security Police Station
Harriet Williamson
Activists have occupied the abandoned high security police station at Paddington Green, London. The successful occupation, which started on 7 February, has ambitions for creating a lasting impact in the local community. Harriet Williamson reports.
Opinion: The Jamaica Charter Flight Underscores the UK’s Broken Deportation System
Rudy Schulkind
Despite public outcry a deportation flight has forcibly removed fathers from their families, to a country some don’t even remember. Rudy Schulkind asks, how did we get here?
Opinion: Public Health Is Always Political, Coronavirus Is No Exception
Jo Sutton-Klein
When their other policies are unpopular or failing, epidemics present a chance for governments to regain support through a performance of competency and to further restrictive rightwing agendas, argues junior doctor Jo Sutton-Klein.
Opinion: Third-Sector Workers’ Grievances Point to the Shortcomings of the Charity Sector
Benjamin Morgan
St Mungo’s homelessness workers have voted to strike over employment conditions, while raising the charity’s history of working with the Home Office. Benjamin Morgan argues more third-sector workers need to make the link between their own struggles at work and charities' failures to stand up for the rights of vulnerable people.
Opinion: A Four-Day Week Is Possible
Aidan Harper
Abandoning demands for shorter working hours risks discarding a highly popular policy with the capacity to transform our society for the betterment of all, argues Aidan Harper.
Ireland’s Voters Have Delivered a Political Earthquake
Tommy Greene and Eoghan Gilmartin
In Northern Ireland's snap general election, left-wing party Sinn Féin has made huge gains, surpassing even its own expectations. Tommy Greene and Eoghan Gilmartin explore what this shock result could mean for the country.
Opinion: Electability Matters, but Its Deployment Is Political
Aaron Bastani
There's no denying that electability is crucial to a party's viability, but don’t be fooled when it’s used to avoid talking about the issues that matter, argues Aaron Bastani.
How the Sinn Féin Surge Is Shaking up Ireland’s Politics
Conor Boyes
Conor Boyes explains how Sinn Féin is pulling the rug from under Ireland's ruling duopoly with a surge that has implications for progressive politics in the Republic, as well as for politics north of the border.
‘We Are Not Lying Down’: The Teachers Leading France’s Strike Wave
Olly Haynes
The government's proposed pension reforms have triggered a wave of strikes across France. One group that will be particularly hurt by the reforms is teachers. Olly Haynes spoke to some of them about the impact of such changes.