Universal Credit: Charity Food Banks Forced to Compensate for Failing Benefits System
Natalie Leal
With charity food banks forced to expand into the space left behind by a shrinking welfare state, we spoke to three women who rely on them.
Tag: austerity
‘How will I feed my son?’: The Government Workers Fighting Back Against Poverty Pay
Nathan Akehurst
In the heart of one of the world’s oldest and richest democracies, the staff keeping UK government offices functional are forced to turn to food banks. Now, they are fighting back and calling for a living wage.
5 Reasons Feminists in Leeds Are Striking on 8 March
Luke Dukinfield
Wrenched from its radical roots in the struggles of working class women, International Women’s Day has been increasingly defanged in the name of corporate interest. Luke Dukinfield makes the case for reclaiming it.
Why Are Nurses Striking in Ireland?
Oliver Eagleton
After a decade of deep funding cuts and the resultant care crisis, last month Irish nurses called a three-day strike for adequate staffing and a liveable wage. With further strikes on the horizon, Oliver Eagleton takes a look at the latest iteration of public action to shake the Irish establishment in recent months.
Another Lewisham Is Possible: Overcoming Housing Crisis and the Democratic Deficit
Franck Magennis
Unwilling to tolerate the democratic deficit, local people in Lewisham are organising to ensure their voices are heard in taking on powerful housing development companies bent on gentrifying the local area.
Novara FM: Beyond Brexit: the Potential of Corbynism
James Butler is joined by Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar to discuss where Corbynism came from and the promise it still might hold beyond the travails of Brexit.
Why Has the Bank of England Decided to Raise Interest Rates?
Grace Blakeley
Our current economic malaise won’t be solved by an interest rate hike. If anything, last week's move from the Bank of England is likely to make things far worse, argues Grace Blakeley.
Wildfires and Tower Block Blazes Aren’t Freak Accidents – These Are the Fires of Austerity
Alex King
From the Athens inferno to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, fires that lead to a catastrophic loss of life aren't freak accidents - they're the consequence of neoliberal policies which urgently need to be challenged, argues Alex King.
Tommy Robinson and His Mates Don’t Really Care About Abused Kids or Terrorism
Benjamin Walters
Tommy Robinson doesn’t care about preventing child abuse, fighting terrorism or protecting free speech. He only cares about pushing his racist agenda and using the suffering of others to advance his own career, argues Benjamin Walters.
New Face at the Home Office, But No New Answers to Knife Crime
Huda Elmi
Sajid Javid is now at the helm of the government’s ‘serious violence strategy’, launched in March to address the UK's knife crime epidemic. But just because he’s the first BME home secretary it doesn’t mean he’ll implement the multi-agency reforms needed to tackle the problem, argues Huda Elmi.
Tackling the Mental Health Crisis Means Defeating Neoliberalism Once and For All
Jay Watts
Labour needs to get radical, resisting the cross-party agreements on mental illness which foreclose the reality that though we may ‘all have mental health’ the chance of us breaking down are deeply indexed to our relative place in society.
IMOBastani: A Broken Economy
This week’s PMQs revealed just how badly the Tories are managing the British economy
Community Not Capital: Creating a Childcare System That Actually Works
Andrea Marie, Camille Barbagallo and Nadine Houghton
Mums for Corbyn activists explain how Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party must seize the opportunity to propose a childcare system that addresses and meets the needs of mothers and their families.
How Can We Make Labour Councils Fight Austerity? The View From Bristol
Joe Hayns
Bristol's mayor, Marvin Rees, has boxed clever on the anti-austerity surge within Labour. Yet the question of how to turn local government into a vehicle to stop cuts - and whether doing so is possible with the Tories in Whitehall - has divided the left.
Novara FM: Sovereignty, Austerity, Nationalism: Britain and Europe
On #NovaraFM, Dawn Foster and Michael Walker join James Butler to discuss some of the driving forces behind recent political stories: sovereignty, austerity, nationalism.
Long Read: Will Corbyn Face Another IMF Crisis?
Adam Blanden
The folk devil of a profligate Labour party frittering away the nation's wealth remains embedded in the British unconscious. But these fears are the results of confusion over two questions – what really happened during the IMF crisis, and is it in any way comparable to the position a Labour government would find itself in today?
Tory Promises to Improve Mental Healthcare Ignore the Reality of Living With Mental Illness
Erika Mastrorosa
Here's why simplistic rhetoric and a small investment are not going to fix a broken system, which is letting people down.
Britain’s Indignant Moment? Grenfell, Neoliberalism and the New Common Sense
Javier Moreno Zacarés
The Grenfell Tower fire has been described as May's 'Katrina moment', but the grief and outrage following the disaster has also been accompanied by a tide of anti-neoliberal sentiment.