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Opinion: Neoliberal Politicians Are Destroying Glasgow

Jonathon Shafi

Privatisation-loving council leader Susan Aitken once partnered with McDonald's to organise volunteer-run clean-ups as she slashed refuse collection budgets. Now she's charging locals £50 to have their garden waste collected. Jonathon Shafi on the crisis unfolding in Glasgow.

A far-right protester at a demonstration outside a hotel in Rotherham.

Feature: Asylum Seekers in South London Are Resisting Removal to a Bedfordshire Hotel Targeted by the Far Right

Charlotte England

A group of asylum seekers has been resisting eviction from a south London hotel for the last three weeks. But layers of outsourcing mean they don't even know who's trying to move them. Charlotte England reports.

Opinion: How Westminster Hid Scotland’s Wealth From Its People

Laura Webster

49 years ago, Westminster buried a report on Scotland’s abundant natural resources to suppress growing support for Scottish independence. Laura Webster discusses the consequences.

Feature: How a Cumbrian Community is Building Working Class Confidence

Craig Gent

The cost of living crisis is only compounding crises of poverty and mental health nationwide. But one community in Barrow-in-Furness is pulling together.

Analysis: No, Gen Z Don’t Just Care About ‘Identity Politics’

Keir Milburn

Gen Z is more pro-union and pro-strike than any generation before them. That’s an opportunity not just for bridging divides within ‘generation left’, but generational divides too, argues Keir Milburn.

Feature: What We Learned at the Latest Round of the Spycops Inquiry

Polly Smythe

Spycops may have sent information to blacklisters and they hated democratic accountability.

Ed Balls and Susanna Reid present Good Morning Britain

Opinion: The Media is Biased Against the Left – And the Right

Aaron Bastani

While rightwing billionaires control Britain’s print press, the broadcast media is stuffed with Blairites, writes Aaron Bastani.

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Report: Bailiffs Are Dressing Up Like Police Officers to Scare Tenants Out of Their Homes

Andrew Kersley

Exclusive: S&K property enforcement is showing up to homes wearing outfits that look like police uniforms.

Opinion: Ukraine’s Resistance Still Needs Our Solidarity

Nadia Whittome

The left has a long record of opposing violent occupations. One year on from Russia’s invasion, we must stand with the Ukrainian people, argues Nadia Whittome.

Former TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes. TSSA

Report: Trade Union Leader Dismissed Following Report Into Sexual Harassment

Polly Smythe

The retirement of disgraced former TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes was announced months ago. So why has he just been dismissed? Polly Smythe reports.

Far right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, speaks outside 10 Downing Street

Feature: White and Hindu Supremacists Are a Match Made in Heaven

Amardeep Singh Dhillon

Tommy Robinson’s Hindutva rant has cemented an alliance long in the making, writes Amardeep Singh Dhillon.

Report: Trade Union Accused of Sitting on Report Into ‘Toxic’ Culture

Polly Smythe

Staff at the TSSA told Novara Media how the union tried to ‘buy time’ before the report into bullying and sexual harassment came out.

Opinion: Let’s Stop Pretending London is a 24/7 City

Moya Lothian-McLean

London’s nightlife has long been outstripped by northern cities. But with rising rents and more and more venue-threatening housing developments, could a similar fate befall them?