Aditya Chakrabortty
Aditya Chakrabortty is senior economics commentator for the Guardian. He tweets @chakrabortty
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A Labour council attacking its own people? This is regeneration gone badThere are many ways to remedy London’s housing crisis. Now it’s up to a judge to halt one of the worst, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Jeremy Corbyn has declared war on Labour councils over housingIt’s a big, bold move. With his pledges to social tenants, the Labour leader is taking sides against his own municipal leaders and their ‘regeneration’ schemes
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College cleaners defeated outsourcing. They’ve shown it can be doneThey swept up after Soas’s lectures on exploitation, but got no sick pay. Then one worker decided she had to act, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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The Last Night of the Proms – a postcard from a country that never existedInflatable bananas, singalongs and a sea of union jacks. But what has the ‘traditional’ closing concert of Proms season got to do with Britain today?
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Poverty, illness, homelessness – no wonder McDonald’s UK workers are going on strikeThe wealth of McDonald’s shareholders is built on the poverty of its workers. Now they’ve had enough, says Guardian senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty
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Ten years after the crash, there’s barely suppressed civil war in BritainWhile the rest of us endure austerity, the economic and business model that created the crash remains intact, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Britain is still a world-beater at one thing: ripping off its own citizensFrom energy and water bills to exorbitant rail fares, we’re all busy lining the pockets of wealthy ‘investors’, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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How could we cope if capitalism failed? Ask 26 Greek factory workersA brave group of Greek factory workers provide an example for Britain, and all of Europe, in taking back workplace control, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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How power operates in modern Britain: with absolute contemptThis isn’t just about Grenfell. The way a Labour borough on the other side of London treats social housing tenants shows a similar disregard for human dignity
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Over 170 years after Engels, Britain is still a country that murders its poorThe victims of Grenfell Tower didn’t just die. Austerity, outsourcing and deregulation killed them – just as Victorian Manchester killed the poor then
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Our leaders have lost touch with reality – just like the banks didUnless the political class faces up to our economic failure, there will be no recovery from this crisis
A civilised society supports people in need, but our brutal system shatters lives