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Report: More Filipino Healthcare Workers Have Died of Covid-19 in the UK Than the Philippines. Why?

Filipinos comprise just 2% of NHS England’s workforce, yet 25% of its coronavirus deaths. Rivkah Brown reports on why the Filipino community has suffered so disproportionately.

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Opinion: To Be Taken Seriously, Open Labour Needs to Do Much, Much Better on Yemen

A recent Open Labour pamphlet manages to minimise and misrepresent the world’s worst humanitarian disaster in just two sentences. David Wearing argues if Labour’s soft left is serious about internationalism, it will have to do better on the most consequential issue in British foreign policy since the Iraq war.

Report: Sex Workers Mobilise Against ‘Dangerous’ Bill Set to Criminalise Clients

Sex workers are mobilising against a controversial Labour bill, which proposes the UK adopts the 'Nordic Model' and criminalises buying sex. Such a move, they argue, would put their lives at greater risk. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Analysis: What Does It Take to Win Climate Justice?

2020 may have been a tough year, but it also saw major victories for environmental justice movements around the world. Nathan Thanki spoke to campaigners in Ireland, South Africa, the Philippines and Ecuador about how to fight - and how to win.

Report: Why Are NGOs So Bad at Saving the Planet?

Britain's four largest environmental NGOs rake in hundreds of millions of pounds each year, but critics say they are near useless despite their enormous outgoings. Ben Smoke asks why the movement is failing to take the kind of radical action necessary to fighting climate breakdown.

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Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers

Brexit will make it far harder for asylum seekers to be reunited with their families. Unaccompanied children risk falling out of the asylum system and into the hands of smugglers and traffickers, reports Lauren Crosby Medlicott.

Analysis: ‘This is How Money Acts’: The Limitless Appeal of ‘White Mess’ TV

HBO's The Undoing is the latest and most potent distillation of 'white mess', a burgeoning television genre, which sees wealthy white people with enviable kitchens entangled in webs of secrets and murder. Ash Sarkar explores the unbounded appeal of rich people problems.

‘It Felt Beautiful and Precious’: Reflections on the Student Movement 10 Years On

Today marks a decade since students faced police horse charges in Parliament Square before being kettled into the night on Westminster Bridge. The 2010 student movement radicalised thousands of students in defence of public education. Matt Myers speaks to two former students about how the movement impacted their politics and lives.

Opinion: Meat Without Animals Isn’t Some Utopia. It’s a Future Already on Its Way

Major developments in lab-grown meat have quietly passed most of us by, writes Aaron Bastani. But a world where we live within our planet’s limits while eating beef and lamb, and where animals need not suffer, isn’t some far-off future - it's already on the horizon.

Analysis: The Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry Could Be Disastrous for Workers. Now’s the Time to Nationalise It

Fossil fuels may be on the way out, but there’s no reason to trust firms will wind down quickly enough, or in a way that protects workers. Kate Aronoff looks at how nationalising the sector could work in the US or UK - and argues ultimately it’s a good idea.

Opinion: To Bring About a Just Transition, Unions and the Climate Movement Must Work Together

Right now, trade unions and climate organisations have neither the radical politics nor militant strategies needed for a just energy transition. Chris Saltmarsh spoke to union activists about where we're going wrong.

Opinion: We’ll Always Have Paris?

Joe Biden’s victory marks the end of four years of US climate denial and isolationism. But rather than celebrating a return to the glossy theatrics of diplomacy, we need to make ever stronger demands for climate justice on a global scale, argues Adrienne Buller.

Opinion: The Conservative Government is a Threat to National Security

With the announcement of a £16bn boost to military spending, the Tories are once again positioning themselves as the party of 'national security'. But from the mishandling of the pandemic to inaction on the climate crisis, it's they who are our biggest threat, argues David Wearing.

Opinion: The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

Activists and lawyers should not have had to intervene this week to stop the Tories deporting people with a legal right to be in the UK, writes Nadia Whittome MP. The Jamaica deportation flight shows that for the Home Office, if you're black, poor and have a foreign passport, that's enough to fast-track you out.

Report: How We Won: The Stripper Who Took Her Club Boss to Court

A stripper, with the help of her union, made history by achieving a landmark ruling that saw her legally recognised as a worker. Stacey Clare reports.