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Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?

Charlie Hertzog Young

By forcing people to work through illness, our inadequate sick pay system is a tool of domination, writes Charlie Hertzog Young. Let’s replace it with one that puts people before profit.

Analysis: The Tories Are Too Weak to Make Big Cuts Now, So They’ve Pushed Them Into the Future

James Meadway

The Tories know they are too weak to make unpopular cuts right now, writes James Meadway. But make no mistake, the politics of austerity still shaped the autumn statement.

Feature: PrEP Could End HIV Transmissions But Tory Austerity Is Scuppering It

Sarah Woolley

PrEP reduces the risk of contracting HIV by almost 100%. But government cuts mean it’s not reaching the majority of people it should.

A supporter of a strike by junior doctors holds a placard during a protest outside the Department of Health in London, Britain April 6, 2016.

Opinion: NHS Workers Are Striking to Save Lives

Dr Rita Issa & Alia Butt

As health workers gear up for a historic bout of strike action, doctors Rita Issa and Alia Butt trash the argument that they’re endangering patients.

Firefighters in Cornwall attend a gorse bush fire, during a heatwave. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson

Report: Fire Services Have Been Cut to the Bone. Now Climate Change is Causing More Fires

Sophie K Rosa

After wildfires swept England in July's heatwave, fire chiefs and politicians talked about the unprecedented weather without mentioning the brutal cuts that have left fire services on the back foot.

Opinion: We Cap Fuel Prices. Why Not Food?

Ella Thorold

Supermarket price-gouging is pushing millions of Britons toward starvation. The solution is simple, writes Ella Thorold.

Analysis: What Can the Left Learn From Portugal’s Elections?

Joana Ramiro

Portugal’s centre-left Socialist Party has won big in the country’s general elections. But for progressives across Europe, Portugal is a cautionary tale, warns Joana Ramiro.

Opinion: It’s Not Enough to ‘Save’ the NHS – We Must Transform It

Joanna Sutton-Klein

Reactionary campaigns to ‘save’ our NHS are no longer enough, writes Jo Sutton-Klein; progressives must offer a transformative vision, which puts care at its centre.

Influencer Molly-Mae Hague at a PrettyLittleThing event in New York

Opinion: Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is

Anna Cafolla

For Gen Z, it’s easier to believe the myth of meritocracy pedalled by influencers - we can all make it to the top because we have ‘the same hours in a day as Beyonce' - than to accept the truth of a system stacked against us, writes Anna Cafolla.

A 'shoplifters welcome' mural in East London

Opinion: Shoplifters of the World, Unite!

Seth Wheeler

Ever stolen Christmas presents for your family? You stand in a long tradition of working-class pilfering – but proletarian shopping could be stronger with collective organisation, argues Seth Wheeler.

Downstream: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People

Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.

Opinion: The Tories’ New ‘Community-Powered’ Plan Is a Cynical Power Grab

Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn & Kai Heron

The Tories' recent proposal for a new era of 'community-powered Conservativism' is an audacious, though ultimately hollow, bid to park tanks on the left's lawn.

Opinion: Austerity May Be Over, but the Tories Still Aren’t Spending Enough

James Meadway

With this year's budget, the Tories may have ended austerity, but the spending increases they are proposing aren't nearly enough to undo the damage they have wrought through a decade of brutal cuts.

Boris Johnson climate change panel children kids

Opinion: The Government’s Net Zero Strategy Is Beyond Disappointing

James Meadway

Unless the Treasury’s attitude towards borrowing changes, the government's decarbonisation strategy is futile, writes James Meadway.

Prime minister Boris Johnson in a hard hat and red jumpsuit in a factory setting

Analysis: The Big State Is Back, Baby

Paolo Gerbaudo

In the neoliberal era, bureaucrats were public enemy number one. Now, Boris Johnson is heralding the “activist state”. The left must skewer the right’s faux interventionism or risk irrelevance, writes Paolo Gerbaudo.

Opinion: I Have Mixed Feelings About South London’s New Tube Stations

Aydin Dikerdem

The shiny new development was paid for with money meant for affordable housing, writes local Labour councillor Aydin Dikerdem.

Opinion: The Government’s New Disability Strategy Proves It Doesn’t Give a Shit About Disabled People

Ellen Clifford

The government’s newly published National Disability Strategy is little more than a distraction from its plans to cut social security and further immiserate disabled people, writes Ellen Clifford.

Jeremy Corbyn meets supporters in Middlesbrough, 11 December 2019.

Analysis: Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All

James Meadway

The left is wrong to take young people’s support for granted, writes James Meadway.

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Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?

Charlie Hertzog Young

Analysis: The Tories Are Too Weak to Make Big Cuts Now, So They’ve Pushed Them Into the Future

James Meadway

Feature: PrEP Could End HIV Transmissions But Tory Austerity Is Scuppering It

Sarah Woolley

Opinion: NHS Workers Are Striking to Save Lives

Dr Rita Issa & Alia Butt

Report: Fire Services Have Been Cut to the Bone. Now Climate Change is Causing More Fires

Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: We Cap Fuel Prices. Why Not Food?

Ella Thorold

Analysis: What Can the Left Learn From Portugal’s Elections?

Joana Ramiro

Opinion: It’s Not Enough to ‘Save’ the NHS – We Must Transform It

Joanna Sutton-Klein

Opinion: Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is

Anna Cafolla

Opinion: Shoplifters of the World, Unite!

Seth Wheeler

Opinion: The Tories’ New ‘Community-Powered’ Plan Is a Cynical Power Grab

Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn & Kai Heron

Opinion: Austerity May Be Over, but the Tories Still Aren’t Spending Enough

James Meadway

Opinion: The Government’s Net Zero Strategy Is Beyond Disappointing

James Meadway

Analysis: The Big State Is Back, Baby

Paolo Gerbaudo

Opinion: I Have Mixed Feelings About South London’s New Tube Stations

Aydin Dikerdem

Opinion: The Government’s New Disability Strategy Proves It Doesn’t Give a Shit About Disabled People

Ellen Clifford

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Tag: austerity

Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?

Charlie Hertzog Young

Analysis: The Tories Are Too Weak to Make Big Cuts Now, So They’ve Pushed Them Into the Future

James Meadway

Feature: PrEP Could End HIV Transmissions But Tory Austerity Is Scuppering It

Sarah Woolley

Opinion: NHS Workers Are Striking to Save Lives

Dr Rita Issa & Alia Butt

Report: Fire Services Have Been Cut to the Bone. Now Climate Change is Causing More Fires

Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: We Cap Fuel Prices. Why Not Food?

Ella Thorold

Analysis: What Can the Left Learn From Portugal’s Elections?

Joana Ramiro

Opinion: It’s Not Enough to ‘Save’ the NHS – We Must Transform It

Joanna Sutton-Klein

Opinion: Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is

Anna Cafolla

Opinion: Shoplifters of the World, Unite!

Seth Wheeler

Downstream: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People

Opinion: The Tories’ New ‘Community-Powered’ Plan Is a Cynical Power Grab

Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn & Kai Heron

Opinion: Austerity May Be Over, but the Tories Still Aren’t Spending Enough

James Meadway

Opinion: The Government’s Net Zero Strategy Is Beyond Disappointing

James Meadway

Analysis: The Big State Is Back, Baby

Paolo Gerbaudo

Opinion: I Have Mixed Feelings About South London’s New Tube Stations

Aydin Dikerdem

Opinion: The Government’s New Disability Strategy Proves It Doesn’t Give a Shit About Disabled People

Ellen Clifford

Analysis: Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All

James Meadway

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