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7 Pandemic Demands to Make Sure Everyone Is Protected

With the government consistently failing to offer a meaningful response, Flannán Shell presents a list of demands to ensure everyone, no matter their situation, is protected in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Opinion: The 2020 Budget Shows the Tories Are Playing by New Rules

Did Rishi Sunak just end austerity? No. Is Britain adequately preparing for the panoply of crises set to define the coming decades? Also no. But make no mistake, writes Aaron Bastani, this was the first Tory budget since 2010 to abandon the neoliberal frame of ‘necessity', demonstrating how Labour under Corbyn won certain arguments.

Opinion: No Wonder Priti Patel Is a Bully, She’s Just Practicing Her Politics

Priti Patel has been accused of bullying staff in several government departments. But news of the home secretary's bad behaviour should come as no surprise; abuse is an inherent part of the Conservative ideology, argues Harriet Williamson.

Opinion: People With Mental Health Problems Should Be Able to Talk About Politics, Not Just Their Conditions

People with mental ill health are encouraged to talk about their conditions, but they are often discouraged from addressing the political agenda that has both increased mental illness and left sufferers without recourse to services, writes journalist and advocate Harriet Williamson.

Opinion: Populist Austerity – This Is the Real Johnsonomics

With the government nationalising Northern Rail and floating the idea of a mansion tax, what looks to some like a move to the left for the Conservatives, is in fact populist austerity in action, argues Phil Jones.

People Keep Starving to Death in Tory Britain

Errol Graham was found starved to death in a flat with no electricity or gas supply. His tragic and entirely avoidable death shines a light on the deadly consequences of our government's brutal austerity programme, writes Harriet Williamson.

The Race Against Time to Save London’s Latin Village

With the possibility of eviction growing ever stronger, the Save Latin Village campaign has put out urgent messages on social media, calling on grassroots activists to help fight in one of north London’s most important gentrification battles.

Opinion: Labour Needs a Female Leader in Rebecca Long-Bailey

With Labour's leadership election looming, Harriet Williamson makes the case for why Rebecca Long-Bailey is best for the job.

GE2019: The Only Way is Tory? Resisting the Inevitable in the Conservative Heartlands of Essex

The Tories have been astoundingly successful at reframing cruelty as mere fatalism, argues Labour candidate Oliver Durose. In Essex and across the country the belief that inequality, injustice and unfairness are simply inevitable has permeated the consciousness of both its victors and its victims. We must change this.

GE2019: Austerity Was an Attack on Our Self-Esteem. We Deserve Better – Let’s Not Talk Ourselves Out of It

Austerity has instilled in us the belief that good things are not possible, and we wouldn't deserve them even if they were. Phil Jones argues we should resist the idea that a better future is too good to be true.

GE2019: ‘But how is Labour going to pay for that?’ To Answer Effectively We Must Talk Politics, Not Economics

How should we answer the question that haunts the Labour party? Politically, on our own terms and by rooting it in peoples’ lived experience, argues economist Grace Blakeley.

Report: Universal Credit Is Riddled With Issues, but Have Some Flaws Been Deliberately Designed Into the System?

Universal credit has proved so unfit for purpose that Labour has said it will replace it entirely if elected next month. But perhaps the most controversial element of the policy is mounting evidence that suggests some of its cruellest flaws aren't accidental failings; the Tories may have deliberately built them in to the system to deter claimants.

Homelessness Activists Occupy Tunnel, After MPs Ask for Gate to Stop Rough Sleepers

Over 320,000 people are homeless in Britain - up 169% since the Conservatives came to power. Yet 'hostile architecture' that keeps rough sleepers out of public spaces is on the rise. As the weather turns cold, a gate has just been installed in a Westminster underpass to lock homeless people out at night - allegedly after MPs complained about having to walk past them.

Universal Credit: Charity Food Banks Forced to Compensate for Failing Benefits System

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.

‘How will I feed my son?’: The Government Workers Fighting Back Against Poverty Pay

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

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?

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

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.