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The cost of living crisis is a political choice
As bills rocket and poverty increases, Terina Hine explains why it doesn’t have to be this way
India: Insurrection at the gates of Delhi
As India’s farmers continue their fight against Modi government ‘reforms’, Susan Ram analyses the issues behind their epic uprising
We can win, with or without Labour's help - CounterBlast 16 June
Marcus Rashford's intervention tipped the balance and pushed the government into concessions on free meals showing movements can win without the Labour machine, argues Shabbir Lakha
Neither a rigged market nor Vera Lynn will pick the crops
The crop picking crisis is revealing the fundamental failures of free-market capitalism and invoking national spirit won't fix it, argues Kevin Ovenden
Corona and the food crisis: how the markets failed us
Corona crisis has exposed how market forces cannot be trusted with our food production, says Kevin Potter
Republic of hunger: In the time of lockdown
Deaths by hunger will outpace deaths due to novel coronavirus in India, says Shashi Kant Tripathi
Coronavirus: an effect of global agribusiness
Growing profit first and food second is the reason for the virus. Look to modern industrial farming for the culprit, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh
We must stop Universal Credit now: it's already wrecking lives
The government has pushed the full roll-out of Universal Credit further down the road, but we must stop it altogether, argues John Rees
Fast food, pub and delivery workers strike across the country
The Fast Food Shutdown - #FFS410 - sees TGI Fridays, McDonalds and Wetherspoons workers strike in nine workplaces, joined by UberEats couriers in at least six cities
Fight for $15: McStrike in the US
Care workers and fast-food workers came together in South Philadephia on US Labor Day
Epidemics, multinationals and capitalism
From Ebola to swine flu, multinationals and their capitalist production systems are the real causes of new epidemic diseases, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh
Hunger pains: life inside Foodbank Britain - extract
As the story of those affected by austerity is exposed on the silver screen, we publish an extract from Kayleigh Garthwaite's topographical study of Foodbank Britain
Food, free markets and capitalist philanthropy
Free markets cause food shortages, and philanthrocapitalism does nothing to solve the problem, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh
A Diet of Austerity
A Diet of Austerity
argues that to fight climate change, we need system change, and the blame must not be shifted onto individuals, finds Orlando Hill
A breath of fresh air
Mark Perryman reviews an exceptionally strong list of autumn political reading