In the latest issue of Red Pepper

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In the latest issue...

PRIVATE SECTOR PARASITES: Red Pepper focuses on the corporations feeding off the state. Dexter Whitfield writes on the impact of private funding of public infrastructure – and how it’s set to get worse under Tory PFI plans, and Nick Hildyard investigates the rise of private equity investment infrastructure funds in overseas development.

HEALTH: Alex Nunns looks at the gale of privatisation, sell-offs and cuts in services blowing through the health service, and interviews Clive Peedell, co-leader of the new National Health Action Party. Kitty Webster meets a community campaign to save an A&E department.

LABOUR AND THE CUTS: Michael Calderbank asks what Labour councillors can do to combat coalition cuts. Meanwhile Isabelle Koksal tells some truths about Lambeth’s ‘co-operative council’.

WORKFARE: Warren Clark explains how the success of the campaign against work-for-benefits schemes has put their future in doubt.

CLIMATE: Pascoe Sabido looks at the global popularity of community-controlled renewable energy, and Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes explore the growing emphasis on security and control over resources.

SPAIN: Iolanda Fresnillo on the myriad ways Spanish people are facing down austerity.

EGYPT: Emma Hughes speaks to Ola Shahba, an activist who has spent 15 years organising in Egypt.

RADICAL HISTORY: Red Pepper publishes a political comix version of the story of the Flint sit-down strike, by US writer and artist Ethan Heitner.

CULTURE: We interview the author of a new book on scouse about the politics of language, publish Jocelyn Watson’s story of the isolation, fears, memories, hopes and possibilities of a young asylum seeker in London and review the new album by radical folk supergroup Union of Folk.

PLUS: Know Your Enemy looks at Unum, a firm getting rich on disability denial, while Right to the City examines the beginnings of a vibrant private tenants’ movement, and there are our regular columns by Jeremy Hardy and Mike Marqusee, four pages of book reviews and much more...

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