In the third of a four-part serialisation from her new book No to Nuclear, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER explains how the world had a chance to build an energy system around renewables more than 70 years ago — instead, it chose nuclear
The Covid pandemic presents humanity with a stark choice
Capitalism is imploding, so humanity has a stark choice: preserve capitalism and run down the planet or preserve the planet and run down capitalism, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM
Exuberance on the London Stock Exchange in 1992
Elon Musk says AI will make work optional. The world of abundance he predicts actually spells the end of the capitalist system, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM
Indian students have fought for the right to education, schooling us all in the process. Comrades from the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) — UK comment on the resistance and its ripples here
Edinburgh’s upcoming by-elections offer tenants a chance to put politicians under pressure over soaring rents and a council that has repeatedly sided with landlords and developers, says ADITI JEHANGIR
The real welfare dependency is at the top of our society, says ALAN SIMPSON
Tony Benn’s constituents chose him by an overwhelming majority — but because he had inherited a peerage, parliamentary rules declared their choice invalid, writes MAT COWARD
CAPITALISM has been imploding for a number of years; the coronavirus outbreak has brought it to a head.
Seen as necessary to save capitalism, the government’s interventions are good preparation for a post-capitalist future.
The railways fell into public ownership out of sheer necessity. Capitalism is calling on socialism to take over. It remains for the working class to do the same.
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