We must create a state that serves people, not capital Forget the 2019 election result – the severity of the crises we face coming out of Covid-19 only deepens the need for a radical socialist programme, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
Features | Monday 13th Jul 2020 Leicester’s garment industry crisis is a microcosm of the global assault on workers’ rights
Tuesday 14th Jul 2020 Voices Of Scotland: Why we are launching Jobs For Good RICHARD LEONARD, Scottish Labour leader, explains why it has become necessary to campaign for new and secure forms of employment as the SNP does little to fend off the Tory assault
Wednesday 15th Jul 2020 Aunt Sallies and straw men are not the new working class Labour’s new director of policy has released a worrying book that deeply and deliberately obscures the material meaning of class, warns PAUL LEFLEY
Tuesday 14th Jul 2020 Gardens of resistance: the struggle for Covent Garden SAM STROUD tells the story of a grassroots campaign against London property developers and gentrification which ultimately gave birth to today’s much-loved community space, Phoenix Garden
Tuesday 14th Jul 2020 Opinion Shattering the tax and spend deficit myth Modern monetary theory has been gaining momentum and popularity in recent years. CHRIS WILLIAMSON takes a look at the arguments
Tuesday 14th Jul 2020 The great outsourcing swindle From short pay, zero-hours contracts and ridiculous workloads there is just no evidence that private companies will be on the side of their employees — or good for the nation's health, writes HELEN O'CONNOR
Monday 13th Jul 2020 Beyond Covid-19, cholera and ebola, Cuban doctors saved tens of thousands of children from Chernobyl Cuban doctors are famed for their heroic role fighting outbreaks internationally such as Ebola and cholera — and celebrated today for their efforts against Covid-19. However few know the story of their 21-year project saving the child victims of Chernobyl, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Monday 13th Jul 2020 Black Lives Matter: the largest and most effective US social movement in history? The sheer scale of the ongoing protests in the US is matched by a drastic shift in public opinion: in a 2014 poll only 33 per cent acknowledged police racism — that same poll today has a majority of 57 per cent. The US is changing, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Monday 13th Jul 2020 What did Marx mean by ‘abolish the wages system’? The exploitation inherent in the wage system was more obvious in Marx's time, but has essentially remained the same — and today it's far easier to imagine a world without wages entirely, where goods and services are free, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Sunday 12th Jul 2020 Remembering black icon Olive Morris The anniversary of the death of a young black activist and socialist will be marked this weekend, reports ANYANNA NDUKWE
Saturday 11th Jul 2020 The second Saturday in July PETER FROST explains about this year’s Durham Miners’ Gala
