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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.

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

by 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.

Explainers: How Private Water Companies Are Killing Britain’s Rivers

Last year in Britain raw sewage was pumped into rivers and coasts 375,000 times. Not a SINGLE river in England has a clean bill of health. Aaron Bastani explains how private water companies are killing the country’s waterways – and why water bosses should face jail time.

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Feature: Why Are Italian Beaches So Damn Expensive?

by Jack Harmsworth

The growing trend of privatised beaches threatens the enjoyment of the Italian coast for millions. With government reforms in the air, Jack Harmsworth looks at what’s at stake.

Explainers: Why Postal Workers Are Going on Strike

While company management are paid in the millions, and receive bonuses for failure, postal workers at Royal Mail are being treated like mud. Today they are going on strike. Aaron Bastani explains the reasons behind the strike – and how bosses at the top are out of control.

Analysis: Why Do We Still Fetishise Homeownership?

by Aidan Beatty

Millions of young Britons will never own their own homes. So why do we still want to? Aidan Beatty explains.

The Bastani Factor: Britain Is Now Fyre Festival

During the Covid pandemic the failures of Britain’s model have become painfully clear, from 80,000 deaths to a test and trace system which isn’t good enough. The latest shambles on free school meals demonstrates that these aren’t the result of a few bad individuals, or random mistakes, but the result of forty years of privatisation […]

Residents and their families in an elderly care home.

Analysis: Money Alone Won’t Fix the Care Crisis – We Need a Radical Rethink

by Emma Dowling

Perma-austerity and the persistent devaluation of care work have left social care in a deficit of millions. But throwing money at the problem won’t make it go away. What we need is a radical rethink, writes Emma Dowling - one that puts care workers and the communities they serve at the helm.

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Report: Big Business Is Muscling in on the UK’s Nursery Racket

by Sophie K Rosa

In Germany and France, around 3-4% of nurseries are private; in the UK, 84% are. All the evidence suggests that these nurseries provide worse childcare and working conditions. Is this the free market doing its thing, or the result of government negligence? Sophie K Rosa reports.

Opinion: Nationalisation of Airlines Could Lead to Political-economic Transformation – If the Left Can Get Organised

by Grace Blakeley

In response to Covid-19, an increasing number of airlines are being nationalised with a view to re-privatising them as soon as the pandemic is over. But if the left can get organised and put pressure on these companies, argues Grace Blakeley, the recovery from coronavirus could also be a time of working class empowerment.

Lockdown Is Revealing the Need for Land Reform in the UK

by Yali Banton-Heath

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed issues concerning our access to land and housing, and the limits on our right to occupy common space. When lockdown is lifted, we must demand a land reform which affords space for us all, argues Yali Banton-Heath.

Asylum Seeker Evictions Will Cause ‘Crisis on the Streets of Glasgow’, Charities Warn

by Charlotte England and an anonymous case worker

A housing provider has announced it will resume a controversial policy to evict hundreds of asylum seekers in Glasgow, in a move charities say will leave scores of vulnerable people street homeless. Serco, which until recently held the government contract to house asylum seekers in the Scottish city, first announced plans to evict people denied […]