BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
It’s back to basics for Labour
GRACE BLAKELEY speaks to Daniel Powell on challenges ahead for Labour voters in the post-pandemic Britain and forthcoming elections
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
IN THE wake of a calamitously handled pandemic peak and growing calls for PM Johnson to resign with his guru-turned-nemesis Dominic Cummings sowing the seeds for yet another Tory psychodrama, political parties are preparing for a set of local, mayoral and assembly elections that will serve inevitably as a media barometer for the popularity of their leaders, amid the prospect of a possibly soon dis-United Kingdom.
Optimism for the liberties offered by the long awaited and much debated vaccine programme will be tempered by a lockdown-weary electorate keen to regain some semblance of a social life, amid the second summer of a long economic recession described by the Bank of England as the deepest since 1706. With all of this in mind, Grace Blakeley offers her own forecasts for the future of the economic and political landscape.
“A recession means there is more unemployment, lower wages, and workers have less bargaining power. Firms are being allowed to fire people and rehire them on insecure contracts, and automation means there are likely to be fewer jobs created over the long run because of the kind of investment we’re seeing in labour-saving technologies.
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