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Opinion: Being in Prison During Covid-19 Was Hell – but Pandemic or Not, the System Ruins Lives

Sam, as told to Sophie K Rosa

Inmates have endured unthinkable conditions during this pandemic, but even before coronavirus, being in prison was like lockdown on steroids. Sam, who has just finished a 30-month sentence, recounts his experience to Sophie K Rosa.

Report: General Strike: Workers Take on the Military in Myanmar

Htar Nwe

Trade unions in Myanmar called for a nationwide strike on Monday, as the country entered its sixth week of mass protest since the military coup. Novara Media spoke to organiser Htar Nwe.

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Analysis: Introducing How We Win, a Socialist Strategy for the 2020s

James Schneider

In this six-part, week-long series, James Schneider sets out a blueprint for the next decade.

Opinion: Whether or Not a Cop Killed Sarah Everard, the Police Are Complicit in What Happened to Her

Rivkah Brown

A woman’s disappearance this week has been widely interpreted as an act of gendered violence. But to fully understand what happened to her, we must examine the role played by the state, writes Rivkah Brown.

Analysis: To Understand How the Crown Meddles in Democracy, We Need to Talk About the Privy Council

Kojo Koram

Curiously absent from discussions of #OprahMeghanHarry is the shadowy body that empowers the Crown to interfere in modern democracy, writes Kojo Koram.

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Long Read: Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could

Eleanor Penny

The pop star inhabits a gilded version of the same cage that traps all wage labourers. She also has the same tools to escape, writes Eleanor Penny.

Opinion: So Long As Our Voting System is Rigged, the Tories Will Always Win Elections

James McAsh

First-past-the-post is an unfair electoral system that favours the Tories. If the Labour left is serious about achieving transformative change, it needs to get behind proportional representation, argues James McAsh.

Opinion: The Tories Think Decolonising the Curriculum Means Censorship. They Couldn’t Be More Wrong

Ali Meghji

Decolonisation isn't "taking bits out" of history, as one minister put it. It's filling in the gaps, writes sociology lecturer and curriculum decoloniser Ali Meghji.

Report: The Women Who Can’t Strike Today Are Exactly Why We Must

Sophie K Rosa

The pandemic has shown how women's work is disproportionately underpaid, undervalued and unsafe. On International Women's Day, many have gone on strike, but many more won't be able to. Sophie K Rosa reports.

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Opinion: How Harry and Meghan Quit the Royal Family to Join the US Aristocracy

Ash Sarkar

Meghan and Harry's defection to the states shows that as the world’s ruling classes go, the British elite is rather second-rate, writes Ash Sarkar; for a hot, rich, mixed-race woman who’s married to a prince, there are more attractive options than enduring the petty cruelty of palace apparatchiks.

With millions of us needing mental health support as a result of the coronavirus crisis, we’re going to need wholesale system change if we’re to recover from it. Sophie K Rosa meets the professionals campaigning for post-pandemic mental health reform.

Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How the Arab Uprisings Were Drowned in Oil

David Wearing

Labour under Keir Starmer has taken a troubling flag-waving turn. But while his patriot act may in part be driven by political expediency, Starmer’s loyalty to the British security state has historically been strikingly consistent, writes Oliver Eagleton.

Opinion: Being in Prison During Covid-19 Was Hell – but Pandemic or Not, the System Ruins Lives

Sam, as told to Sophie K Rosa

Report: General Strike: Workers Take on the Military in Myanmar

Htar Nwe

Analysis: Introducing How We Win, a Socialist Strategy for the 2020s

James Schneider

Opinion: Whether or Not a Cop Killed Sarah Everard, the Police Are Complicit in What Happened to Her

Rivkah Brown

Analysis: To Understand How the Crown Meddles in Democracy, We Need to Talk About the Privy Council

Kojo Koram

Long Read: Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: So Long As Our Voting System is Rigged, the Tories Will Always Win Elections

James McAsh

Opinion: The Tories Think Decolonising the Curriculum Means Censorship. They Couldn’t Be More Wrong

Ali Meghji

Report: The Women Who Can’t Strike Today Are Exactly Why We Must

Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: How Harry and Meghan Quit the Royal Family to Join the US Aristocracy

Ash Sarkar

Opinion: The Biden Administration Just Broke International Law. Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?

Aaron Bastani

Report: After Coronavirus, We Need a New Mental Health System

Sophie K Rosa

Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How the Arab Uprisings Were Drowned in Oil

David Wearing

Analysis: After All the Hype Over Budget 2021…That’s It?

James Meadway

Opinion: Now Isn’t the Time for a General Tax Hike – We Need to Target Those Who’ve Profited From the Pandemic

Ann Pettifor

Long Read: Keir Starmer is a Long-Time Servant of the British Security State

Oliver Eagleton

Analysis: The Tories’ Anti-Protest Clampdown Will Hit Black and Brown People Hardest

Zehrah Hasan, James Aiken and Callum Lynch

Report: A Doctor on Living Through a Month of Deadly Protests in Myanmar

Charlotte England

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Opinion: Being in Prison During Covid-19 Was Hell – but Pandemic or Not, the System Ruins Lives

Sam, as told to Sophie K Rosa

Report: General Strike: Workers Take on the Military in Myanmar

Htar Nwe

Analysis: Introducing How We Win, a Socialist Strategy for the 2020s

James Schneider

Opinion: Whether or Not a Cop Killed Sarah Everard, the Police Are Complicit in What Happened to Her

Rivkah Brown

Analysis: To Understand How the Crown Meddles in Democracy, We Need to Talk About the Privy Council

Kojo Koram

Long Read: Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: So Long As Our Voting System is Rigged, the Tories Will Always Win Elections

James McAsh

Opinion: The Tories Think Decolonising the Curriculum Means Censorship. They Couldn’t Be More Wrong

Ali Meghji

Report: The Women Who Can’t Strike Today Are Exactly Why We Must

Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: How Harry and Meghan Quit the Royal Family to Join the US Aristocracy

Ash Sarkar

Opinion: The Biden Administration Just Broke International Law. Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?

Aaron Bastani

Report: After Coronavirus, We Need a New Mental Health System

Sophie K Rosa

Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How the Arab Uprisings Were Drowned in Oil

David Wearing

Analysis: After All the Hype Over Budget 2021…That’s It?

James Meadway

Opinion: Now Isn’t the Time for a General Tax Hike – We Need to Target Those Who’ve Profited From the Pandemic

Ann Pettifor

Long Read: Keir Starmer is a Long-Time Servant of the British Security State

Oliver Eagleton

Analysis: The Tories’ Anti-Protest Clampdown Will Hit Black and Brown People Hardest

Zehrah Hasan, James Aiken and Callum Lynch

Report: A Doctor on Living Through a Month of Deadly Protests in Myanmar

Charlotte England

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