Economics, unions and work
Covering both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives, we explore how privatisation, globalisation and tech capitalism are generating new forms of exploitation – always prioritising the voices of workers organising resistance, both in and beyond trade unions.
Covering both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives, we explore how privatisation, globalisation and tech capitalism are generating new forms of exploitation – always prioritising the voices of workers organising resistance, both in and beyond trade unions.
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Real existing degrowth
Radical alternatives to capitalism are being practiced across the world as everyday realities, writes Grace Wright-Arora
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Cuba stands firm
Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues Helen Yaffe
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Behind the ‘intelligent’ chatbot
Angela Chukunzira, Tyler Finken and Finn Jetses highlight multinational resistance to AI’s social and ecological impact
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Their hour of glory: Trades councils and the 1926 general strike
Joe Redmayne reflects on the role of trades councils during the 1926 general strike
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Elections 2026: The left’s future is local
Candidates and campaigners debate alternative local offers to Labour and Reform, through future alliances and those already underway
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Elections 2026: Think global, vote local
Ahead of 7 May polling day, candidates and canvassers tell RPM what the left can achieve in local and devolved government
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Rethinking racism
The left has forgotten our traditions of anti-racist analysis and organising. We must abandon liberal analyses, says Gargi Bhattacharyya, and see racism as an exercise of power
