29 July
'The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families.' Cesar Chavez
Today in 1972, after a five-year strike, the United Farm Workers (UFW) reached an agreement with the California table grape growers, thus ending the first consumer grape boycott. At its height more than 14 million Americans were boycotting Californian wine in support of the UFW.
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Greenwash
Alethea Warrington describes how the fossil fuels industry hopes to change its image but not its practice
Frontline workers and Covid-19: a carer’s account
Ndella Diouf Paye writes about her experiences working as a carer for a private company
The state of things to come
Politicians, the state, and the market have failed to come to terms with Covid-19. Can 'people power' navigate a way out of the crisis? K Biswas introduces the TNI Covid Capitalism Report
Pints, patriotism and precarity
Oli Carter-Esdale explores the weaponisation of the pint and asks: where next for the hospitality sector?
UK, hun?
Materially, the UK is not a nation – with fewer common experiences than ever before, from schools and policing to borders and governance – argue Medb MacDaibheid and Brian Christopher
What key work really means
While economic activity slowed down during the Covid-19 crisis, accumulation of wealth continues for capitalists at the cost of key workers’ health and wellbeing, writes Notes From Below
