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Analysis: The IMF Is About to Enforce Worldwide Austerity

by Matteo Tiratelli

The International Monetary Fund’s loan-making power has made it a linchpin of the global economy, writes Matteo Tiratelli – power it’s about to use to impose another decade of murderous austerity.

05/05/2022. London, United Kingdom.The Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts the Prime Minister's Business Council with The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, The Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi and The Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan. 10 Downing Street. Picture by Tim Hammond / No 10 Downing Street

Analysis: Wow! The Tories Are Planning to ‘Level Up’ Britain Again

by James Morrison

Rishi Sunak’s overtures about ‘levelling up’ the ‘left behinds’ obscures who really needs help.

Report: Let Them Eat Nothing: Food Banks to Close for Queen’s Funeral

by Simon Childs

Food banks across the UK are closing to allow volunteers to pay their respects.

Explainers: The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation

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.

09/02/2021. London, United Kingdom. Health Secretary Matt Hancock before Parliament announcement. Department of Health. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

Analysis: Why Do Tories Love Crypto?

by Peter Howson

Rishi Sunak has ordered the Treasury to mint NFTs. Matt Hancock is a "crypto expert", apparently. How to explain the overlap between Tory boys and crypto bros? Pete Howson offers an answer.

Downstream: 21st Century Child Homelessness in New York City. Ash Sarkar Meets Andrea Elliot

In 2012 a New York Times journalist met 11 year old Dasani Coates. Over the next 8 years the journalist followed Dasani and her family as they navigated social services, the cascade of generational trauma and the attention of a New York City Mayor. Ash Sarkar meets Andrea Elliott author of Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City.

Russian army take part in a rehearsal of military parade on April 18, 2022 on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, in preparation for the May 9 parade. About 11 thousand military personnel, 131 units of modern weapons and military equipment, 77 aircraft and helicopters are involved. Russia is hurling its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and pouring more troops into the war, seeking to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.

Feature: How Putin Bribed Russia’s Peasant Army Into a War They Don’t Want

by Liza Smirnova & Alexey Sakhnin

Three-quarters of Russians are city-dwellers. Yet the army today looks almost the same as it did under the tsars, write Alexey Sakhnin and Liza Smirnova: peasants in overcoats.

The Bastani Factor: How Britain Starved Ireland

Today the island of Ireland has a smaller population than it did 200 years ago. How did that happen, and what has it got to do with free market capitalism? Aaron Bastani explains how London politicians and Irish landlords exploited a crisis in the name of an ideology – in the process wrecking the lives […]

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Opinion: A Few New Bus Lanes Won’t ‘Level Up’ the UK – But Upping the Minimum Wage Might

by Ell Folan

Michael Gove’s levelling up white paper makes a mockery of our country’s enormous regional inequalities, argues Ell Folan.

Downstream: Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown

How far would you go to get famous and escape poverty? Ash Sarkar is joined by Symeon Brown to discuss how the democratic promise of the internet has reinvented the pyramid scheme. From cryptocurrencies to botched Brazilian butt lifts, they look at how the new clout economy has created a digital lumpenproletariat.

Analysis: Poor Brits Live Much Shorter Lives. What Can We Do?

by Ell Folan

The least privileged people live nine years fewer than the most. Ell Folan looks at why, and what can be done.

An image of Boris Johnson dressed as a clown graffitied onto a brick wall

Opinion: This Isn’t Just About Universal Credit – Our Entire Benefits System Is a Joke

by Andrew Fisher

While the campaign to cancel the £20 cut to Universal Credit is welcome, we risk atomising our struggle against a broken system, argues Andrew Fisher.

Ash Wednesday: What About the White Working Class?

Has the idpol-loving left abandoned the white working class? The answer is a bit more complicated than the Tories would have you think.

Analysis: Did China Just End Extreme Poverty?

by Aaron Bastani

China claims to have eliminated poverty. On some measures, this isn't true, but it's certainly doing far better than anywhere else. In fact, the myth of global progress has now come to depend on China - a country whose economic model is entirely different to our own.

Boris Johnson holds up a painting of a ladybird

Opinion: Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That

by James McAsh

There's a reason small class sizes and rich extracurricular provision are staples of private schooling, writes primary teacher James McAsh.

The Bastani Factor: “This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”

Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave the worst interview by a politician Aaron Bastani has ever seen. What does it say when after 100,000 people have died a leading politician can get away with such a performance?

The four protagonists of sex and the city stand in a cocktail bar laughing

Opinion: Sex and the City Is Back and I Couldn’t Help but Wonder: Will the Show Finally Throw Off Shackles of Capitalism?

by Eleanor Penny

As the hit HBO franchise returns for its seventh season, Eleanor Penny asks whether our heroines will at last escape their opulent purgatory.

TyskySour: Meal Snatcher

Removing free school meals in the middle of a pandemic is arbitrary and cruel. Has Marcus Rashford revealed the true nature of Tory Britain? Plus: the leader of Islington Council, Richard Watts, on why school meals should be free for all; Deputy in the Chilean Congress, Giorgio Jackson, on the referendum that overturned Pinochet’s constitution; And, […]