Tower Hamlets is set to elect a new mayor on 11 June after a racist witch hunt saw Lutfur Rahman removed. Now Rabina Khan is running to defend democracy and take on the establishment, her supporters told Dave Sewell
National Gallery bosses want union rep Candy Udwin out of the picture... That’s why every trade unionist should join the fight for her job
Campaigners and trade union leaders explain why the fight to defend Candy Udwin matters for every trade unionist in Britain.
Leading Labour Party figures and political commentators claim that working class people have all become Tories. Tomáš Tengely-Evans argues the truth is more complex
The new Tory minister for disabled people is against protecting benefits for cancer patients and disabled children.
Dave Sewell explains why the trade union bureaucracy still trails after the Labour Party despite being let down by Labour time after time since the party was founded
There is a revolution taking place in molecular biology. Scientist John Parrington spoke to Dave Sewell about his new book that explores the issues for a mass audience
The election showed that Britain’s ‘free press’ is a farce, but do the papers really control their readers’ minds? Nick Clark looks at the influence and limits of the media
When cops in Baltimore arrested Freddie Gray and threw him screaming in pain into the back of their van, they thought no one would question their actions. When Freddie died in that same truck, they thought they’d get away with it. Not this time, writes Ken Olende
We’re told that market forces run the world, and can’t be beaten even when they fail us. But Tomáš Tengely-Evans argues that a better way is both necessary and possible
Dave Sewell looks at how racist scapegoating and migrant deaths are bound up with the bosses’ European Union—and argues the alternative lies in workers’ solidarity
A new film We Are Monster explores the build up to a notorious racist murder in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution in 2000. The filmmakers and the uncle of the murder victim talk to Simon Basketter
