Whether It’s ‘Rational’ or Not, Anxiety Has Its Own Logic
Ellen Judson
This personal account explores one source of difficulty faced by many people with anxiety: the social expectation of what constitutes 'reasonable' fears and worries.
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If Teach First Wants to Solve Inequality, It Should Reconsider Its Corporate Bedfellows
Danny Rees
What links Goldman Sachs and an inner-city school serving a low-income community? The answer is troubling one.
Long Read: ‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity
Joni Pitt (Cohen) & Sophie Monk
Feminists have identified that paid work depends on unpaid female labour performed within the household. But what happens queer folk; those denied access to the traditional household unit, forced to find other ways to support themselves? Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk explore the idea that, in some ways, queerness is precarity.
UberEats Workers on Strike and Hungry for Fair Pay
Joe Hayns
This summer saw the London launch of UberEats - a new food delivery platform to rival Deliveroo. Yesterday UberEats drivers took their first strike action. Here’s a round-up.
5 Things You Need To Know About the UberEATS Strike
Callum Cant
On Friday, drivers for UberEats - the new food delivery platform from Uber - will go on strike across London. Following soon after the recent Deliveroo strike, these disputes represent exciting developments in new forms of political action at work.
5 Lies Landlords Tell About Rent Controls
Gordon Maloney
The Labour leadership election has seen Jeremy Corbyn renew his proposals for rent controls, and the industry response has been as predictable as it is completely devoid of truth or evidence.
Long Read: #BernieOrBust? Against the Politics of Lesser Evilism
Alex Richardson-Price
After the collapse of Sanders' presidential campaign, US radicals are left with limited options at the ballot box. Should they vote for the lesser of two evils, or try to forge a third way?
Opposition to Momentum’s Festival Comes From Fear of the New Politics It Represents
Andrew Dolan
Momentum's 'The World Transformed' festival is taking place on the same weekend as Labour's annual conference, in the same city. Andrew Dolan argues it's a welcome interruption to a stage-managed spectacle.
Treat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS
Docs Not Cops
The Byron raids highlighted the extent to which companies are complicit in immigration enforcement, but the government's pursuit of a 'hostile environment' for undocumented migrants is asking NHS workers to police patients.
Reducing ‘Drop-Out’ Rates for Black Students Means Institutional Transformation, Not Individual Support
Remi Salisbury
Black students are 50% more likely to drop out of university than their peers, but as long as solutions are geared towards individual ‘support’, the government’s commitment to racial equality remains superficial.
Long Read: Corbynism and the Corporation: BBC Bias and the Case for Media Transformation
Tom Mills
The BBC's treatment of Corbyn has attracted claims of 'bias' which are so far backed up by research findings. But bias at the Beeb needs to be understood in the context of an ongoing political struggle.
Long Read: What’s the Point of Referendums?
Alice McCool
Much of the EU debate unquestioningly assumed the received wisdom that referendums are democratising, offering us the chance to "take back control". Alice McCool examines the flaws of this limited vision of the democratic process.
‘A death toll for Blairite strategy’: Labour’s Leadership Contest So Far
James McAsh
At last there's a leadership contest underway in the Labour party. With the policy proposals lined up and hustings underway, we can begin to see the dividing lines between Corbyn and Smith.
Knowledge is Power: Lessons from Dystopian Fiction
Ellen Judson
32 years since George Orwell’s predictions of the future failed to come to pass, and our world seems to be getting more dystopian every day - but of all society's dystopian elements, which should worry us most?
#Slaveroo: Deliveroo Drivers Organising in the ‘Gig Economy’
Jamie Woodcock
Yesterday hundreds of Deliveroo turned up at the company's London HQ to convey their collective grievances regarding a new pay structure, defying the fragmentation of platform-based labour in the so-called 'gig economy'.
Donald Trump Hasn’t Killed the GOP: He is the GOP
Cameron De Chi
Ted Cruz’s refusal to endorse Trump played up to the ‘Good Conservative’ narrative, but portraying Trump as an outsider lets the Republicans off the hook for his rise.
The Byron Raids Show the Complicity of an Industry Built on Migrant Labour
Sarah Taylor
The hospitality sector is built on both migrant labour and the precise management of staff and resources. A closer look at the sector reveals the level of planning that must have gone into the Byron immigration raids.
Long Read: Campesinos Against Climate Change: The Fight for Economic Justice in Colombia
Milo Phillips
In the second of our features on social justice movements in Colombia, Milo Phillips reports on how climate change and neoliberal economic reforms have endangered the livelihoods of farmers - and how they are fighting back.