We can't move forward as a progressive society, until we break away from our neoliberal past, says CHRIS WILLIAMSON
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Storm Bert: forgotten Welsh towns drown in neglect
As waters rise and defences fail, working-class communities abandoned by Westminster face nature’s fury while in a bitterly ironic turn, the descendants of miners pay the price for the legacy fossil fuels, writes GUTO DAVIES
SUBMERGED: Firefighters pump water from Sion Street by the River Taff, in Pontypridd, November 24
Why did so many self-described progressives respond to an anti-semitic attack by questioning the victims, asks JULIA BARD
Austerity is breaking the education system. We must unite to save our schools and pay our teachers properly, says NEU national president ED HARLOW
A nationwide mobilisation signals growing resistance to the far right, but lasting change will depend on deep organising in every corner of society, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Marx’s early lectures on economics, together with Engels’s additions, provide a valuable introduction to Marxist political economy today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Art matters because stories, herstories, histories, and even flights of fancy matter, posits MATT KERR
ON the morning of Sunday November 24 this year, the village in which I live, Trehafod, was under siege from a rising tide of water.
Following the worst of Storm Bert through the night, the only roads into Trehafod from north and south, along with the railway line, were all closed due to flooding.
In the meantime, the river Rhondda to the west was rising at an alarming rate, while to the east, culverts were gushing fiercely down the rocky mountainside. The village felt like a perilous place to be, with no escape route.
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