As Calls Grow to Nationalize Britain’s Broken Industries, Labour Needs to Listen

From water to rail to healthcare, privatization in the UK has had disastrous effects. Now the question is what a government led by the Labour Party can do about it.

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The Rise and (Not So Fast) Fall of Londongrad

Despite a raft of hard-hitting sanctions and other measures targeting oligarchs’ wealth, many fear the so-called end of the era of Russian money pouring into London won’t actually be over.

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Reckoning with Britain’s Cost-of-Living Crisis: Causes and Solutions

Having endured years of austerity, real-wage cuts, a crippling pandemic, and now soaring costs to energy prices and other living essentials, financially struggling families require immediate state support to help get through the cost-of-living crisis.

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‘Tinkering Round the Edges’ Won’t Cut it: COP26, Capitalism and the Climate Crisis

“Our broken financial system created this crisis and if we do not rebuild it from the ground up, we will not only have no quality of life, we’ll have no life on earth at all.”

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Calls for UK to Tax Wealth, Not Work, Gather Momentum

A hike in National Insurance Contributions, a fundamental component of the UK welfare state, would hit lowest-paid people the hardest.

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Why Football Is One Capitalist Product the Fat Cat Billionaires Will Never Fully Control

Football, by far the most popular sport in the world, occupies a strange but interesting place in how we understand contemporary capitalism – as the recent Super League debacle revealed.

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Kill the Bill: UK Fights to Protect the Democratic Right to Protest

The long Easter weekend saw thousands of demonstrators join rallies and marches across Britain as part of a high-prolife censure of a proposed new law that would give police extra powers to curtail protests.

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Post-Brexit Scrapping of Erasmus Student Exchange Harms Economy and Undermines UK Relations with Europe

Britain’s abrupt departure from the programme marks the depressing demise of multi-ethnic, all-inclusive relations with Europe – and demonstrates the “Little Englander” mentality that has gripped the country since the EU referendum in 2016.

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UK’s 5-day Hiatus from Christmas Lockdown May Pave the Way for Ill-Fated New Year for Britain's Poorest

The government’s scientific advisory group has warned that the easing of restrictions over the holiday period could cause an increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases.

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Finding a Home for the ‘Politically Homeless’: Could a UK Version of Spain’s Podemos Party Work In Britain?

The notion of a new party being formed by socialists, progressives and others who feel politically homeless is gaining momentum among Britain’s left.

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