Capitalism doesn’t only control what we produce and who owns it. It also shapes how we understand ourselves. Its preferred image of society is a collection of separate individuals, each pursuing their own interests and responsible for their own fate….
Britain’s inflation rate fell to 2.6 percent in the year to June, helped by lower food and fuel costs. Ministers will present the figure as evidence that the cost-of-living crisis is easing. But slower inflation doesn’t mean prices have returned…
As the United States endures another summer of dangerous heat, drought and flooding, more and more working people are recognising what they’re experiencing isn’t just bad luck. According to new polling by Data for Progress, 61% of likely voters believe…
Four years into Britain’s cost-of-living crisis, the reality facing the working class is getting worse, not better. New figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) show that 62 percent of low-income families couldn’t afford at least one essential item during…
For millions of working-class families, the school holidays don’t mean rest. They mean another six weeks of worrying how to put food on the table. A charity in Sussex and Surrey has warned that families are skipping meals to make…
Being poor under capitalism doesn’t just mean having less money. It means being charged more for the basics of life. New research by Fair by Design, funded by Trust for London, has found that low-income households in London pay hundreds…
Nearly one in ten probation hostels in England and Wales have been forced to close because of a staffing crisis, exposing yet another fault line in Britain’s crumbling criminal justice system. The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that nine of…
British motorists are continuing to pay inflated fuel prices after global oil prices returned to pre-war levels, exposing once again how capitalism allows corporations to turn every crisis into an opportunity for profit. According to analysis by the Press Association,…
Virgin Media has been hit with a £28 million fine after Ofcom found the company repeatedly made it harder for customers to cancel their contracts, using tactics designed to delay or prevent them from leaving. The regulator found that between…
An American pilot has been killed in West Papua after fighters from the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) attacked and burned a civilian aircraft in Indonesia’s Highland Papua province. TPNPB spokesperson Sebby Sambom identified the pilot as Nicholas F….
