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Credit: Eduardo de Leon Herencia The sun had barely risen over the slopes of Cotopaxi volcano on the morning of 19 June 2022 when the Ecuadorian police stormed the house of Leonidas Iza, the director of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador...

Credit: Better buses for Greater Manchester Despite private bus companies doing everything in their power to stop regulation in its tracks, Manchester is bringing buses back into public control. This is a story of people coming together to demand better transport and...

The City of London (Credit: Michael Gwyther-Jones) This year’s Sunday Times Tax List – the list of the 100 people who pay the highest amounts of UK tax – was published at the end of January. In revealing who the highest UK taxpayers are, it appears to celebrate those...

Credit: Kernow Transformed The World Transformed (TWT) is best known for its annual festival, held adjacent to the Labour Party conference. Behind the scenes, the organisation’s year-round staff and volunteers are dedicated to socialist political education, building...

(Credit: cover by Saqi books. Pride flag by Benson Kua) When you stand in front of a painting, you may only see the obvious at first. But when you look deeper and allow the painting to show you its layers, you see the hidden details, the hidden beauty and the love...

Pussy Riot in 2012 (Credit: Igor Mukhin) At a recent organising meeting, the facilitator asked us all: ‘What’s giving you political hope right now?’ The silence it prompted was only broken by sighs. Following a summer of strikes and growing union reach, the powerful...

Anti-gentrification in Brick Lane, London (Credit: Rebecca Neil) When sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term ‘gentrification’ in 1964, she was analysing how previously working-class areas of London were being taken over by middle-class residents. Since then,...

Grant Shapps by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street, via flickr, shared under CC BY 2.0 Although the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is only seven pages long, its implications are enormous – but will be subject to minimal parliamentary scrutiny. The Bill adds to...

Kibagare in Nairobi (Credit: Ninara via Wikimedia Commons) ‘Maximum governance and control with minimum administration’ has become a mantra of how technology is used by state and private actors in a number of Africa’s cities. In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital and political,...

Edited from an original photo by JJ Harrison How am I meant to write about current affairs under these chaotic conditions? Goodness knows who the prime minister will be when this column is published. If a time traveller from two months into the future knocked on my...

(Credit: Pete Cannel) The 1970s were a decade defined by the power of the working-class movement. We may look back now and say that thetrade unions were radical and strong. However, as Willie Black recounts, that strength came from the rank and file. In reality,...