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Know your rights: if it’s not safe, don’t go back to work

France: Fear, mistrust and anger as lockdown is lifted

What the people want: rent controls and job guarantees

Boris Johnson’s television broadcast, 10 May 2020. Photo: Flickr/Andrew Parsons

Johnson’s gamble will cost thousands more lives – weekly briefing

Meatpacking plant. Photo: Public Domain

To the slaughter: back to work in a pandemic

American Factory, Netflix

American Factory: a neoliberal story – film review

Jolly George, 1920: when British workers stood up for revolutionary Russia

Katherine Connelly

Ludwig van Beethoven. Graphic: Needpix

Beethoven: the politics of a musical revolutionary

Man with medical flu mask. Photo: Flickr/Marco Verch

Left on our own: a dispatch from the frontline

It Happened Here production shot

If VE Day never came: It Happened Here – film review

Winston Churchill at his seat in the Cabinet Room at No 10 Downing Street. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Winston Churchill: he fought for his class, never ours

Dominic Alexander

Holland Park squat, 1946. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The Spirit of ’46: how mass occupations won the battle for homes

Alistair Cartwright

Maltese Winston Churchill bust. Photo: Wikimedia/Pygar 1954

World War 2: we weren’t all in it together

Soviet flag lifted over the Reichstag. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

VE Day: a struggle for the future

New gun factory, Woolwich. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Britain in World War Two: when workers wouldn’t go back to normal

John Westmoreland

Emeric Pressburger (left) and Michael Powell filming in 1950. Photo: Flickr/Ninian Reid

Total War: realism and fantasy in British Cinema of the 1940s