Despite the Tories’ claim that they are not going back to austerity, they are planning to cut Universal Credit by withdrawing the previous £20 a week increase. Round the next turning in the road are attacks all along the line — on benefits, on public sector workers’ pay, even in the NHS.
Over 200 young artists and activists protested outside Cuba’s Ministry of Culture in Havana on 27 November, demanding the release of a jailed rapper and freedom of expression.
Adaptation — the battle to our infrastructure climate resilient — may well become the terrain of increased class conflict and workers’ mobilisation. It is possible to imagine a near future where working-class communities mobilise to defend homes, livelihoods and basic standards of human decency against climate catastrophe and disaster capitalism.
The solution to antisemitism in Labour and on the left is a bold educational drive, which requires free debate. Not the leadership covering their backs with authoritarian silencing, treating the issue primarily as a problem of a few — or a few thousand — “bad apples”.
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