Over the last 12 months rents have increased across the UK, with the single biggest increase for any region ever recorded in London. But while workers are told not to ask for wage rises during the cost of living crisis, the media and political class are silent when it comes to landlords demanding more. Aaron […]
BT recorded £2 billion in profits before tax last year. Its CEO, Philip Jansen, enjoyed a salary of £3.5 million. Yet it’s now offering engineers & call centre workers a real terms pay CUT. Aaron Bastani explains why BT workers have had enough.
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
Statues like that of Edward Colston don’t teach us about Britain’s past. They stand in the way.
The government is clapping for the NHS – but refusing to protect frontline workers. The bravery NHS staff are having to show is a sign of government failure. So don’t just #clapforNHS, demand that Boris #givethemPPE
Real feminism – the kind that can transform the world – is about fighting for and with anyone who gets a raw deal under patriarchy. Not just people with the right kind of job, the right kind of genitals or the right kind of passport. In our new ‘Explains’ series Dalia Gebrial & Eleanor Penny […]
David Wearing argues that with only a few years left to prevent climate breakdown, Labour’s new leader has to both win the next general election, and then push through a major transformation of our economic model in a single parliament. So can Labour afford to go back to the politics of the centre left, which […]
David Wearing explains why this upcoming election will have repercussions across the globe far worse than Brexit.
This week Corbyn revealed un-redacted trade documents detailing talks between the Conservative government and the Trump administration between 2016 – now. He argued they prove the NHS is indeed up for sale, contradicting Boris Johnson. We asked two medical doctors to explain the papers. Featuring Dr Rita Issa and Dr Timesh Pillay.
Eleanor Penny explains why the Tories’ rallying cry to Get Brexit Done is a complete and utter SCAM.
Haven’t read the Labour Party manifesto yet? Here’s all you need to know.
Paul Mason – former economics editor for BBC Newsnight and Channel 4, outlines the difference between debt and deficit.
Remembrance is viewed through a prism of hyper-nationalism, tasteless militarism and pseudo-patriotism. War veteran Joe Glenton argues that to truly respect the war dead, we must learn the lessons of the past.
This week the Turkish armed forces launched an incursion into northern Syria with the intention of crushing the YPG and the autonomous region known as Rojava. In this video Elif Sarican outlines the reasons why we in the UK should care.
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