Socialist presidential candidate Leody de Guzman at a rally (credit: Leody de Guzman) (The views expressed in this piece are strictly the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of other individuals and organizations involved in the Leody de Guzman for...
A UCU picket in Edinburgh, November 2019. Photo by Magnus Hagdorn The decade since the abolition of the university fee cap in 2012 has felt painfully long for staff and students. Universities are no longer fertile ground for public knowledge but an exercise in...
For the Solidarity Knows No Borders Week of Action in June 2020, Hastings Refugee Buddy Project organised banner drops along the beaches with 22 other organisations and groups to welcome refugees This year marks five years since we set up The Refugee Buddy Project...
Photo by Redd on Unsplash A recent survey by the National Education Union has revealed that 44 per cent of state-school teachers in England plan to leave the profession in the next five years. Excessive workload, underappreciation and low pay are cited as the primary...
Photo: Matt Brown This article first appeared in Issue #236, Summer 2022. Subscribe today to read more articles and support fearless, independent media. To conceive of the time that has passed since the Grenfell fire is utterly nauseating. The last half-decade has...
Thatcher and Reagan in 1984, via Wikimedia Commons Neoliberal economic theory emerged after World War II, spearheaded by Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and later by America’s Milton Friedman. Hayek was staunchly opposed to state...
Members of An Rabharta Glas – Green Left and People Before Profit at a demonstration at Tynagh power station, a privately owned gas-fired power station in county Galway ‘People love to claim that they’re working class, Gary said. No one here is actually from a...
Pall Mall on the first day of the Jubilee weekend in June 2012. Photo by Garry Knight When Marie Antoinette discovered her subjects were facing a bread shortage and starvation in around 1789, due to multiple poor crop harvests and rodent infestations, she apparently...
Photo: Markus Spiske To the reader of this article: stop. You should be working. You’ve already worked forty hours this week for £6.83/hour? Tough. Work more, and when you’ve finally earned enough to buy your rations and pay your bills, you better get enrolled in...
Prisoners’ Round (after Gustave Doré) (1890) by Vincent Van Gogh ‘Why didn’t they just leave the place?’- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed In Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Disposessed, children in the fictional world of Anarres are learning about the history of their...
A banner from the Gota Go Gama London protests in Parliament Square. Photo provided by the author Ms V. has lived and worked in the UK for forty-five years. She had never been to a protest before. She steered clear of anything political, even when the country she left...
Author photo by Marion Macalpine I came to London from Aotearoa (New Zealand) after witnessing the racism, sexism and class system imposed by settler colonialism, at a time of global uprisings against imperialism and patriarchy. In London, I attended 1967’s...