Economics, unions and work
Red Pepper covers both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives the section on economics, unions and work.
While exploring how privatisation, globalisation, the gig economy, and changes to working life after Covid-19 have generated new forms of exploitation, we also hear from workers organising and fighting back both in and beyond trade unions.
Red Pepper covers both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives the section on economics, unions and work.
While exploring how privatisation, globalisation, the gig economy, and changes to working life after Covid-19 have generated new forms of exploitation, we also hear from workers organising and fighting back both in and beyond trade unions.
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How Elbit was shut down
Blyth Brentnall describes how a group of activists in the UK has managed to disrupt the activities of one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers
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Rebuilding collective intelligence
Human capital theory cannot solve our economic woes, David Ridley explains why we need a socialist alternative
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Fighting for Cardboard City
Winner of the Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize: Jessica Field charts the stresses of frontline housing activism from a 1950s estate and community under threat
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Mick Lynch media mania – the appeal of workers’ power
Style backed by serious politics can cut through in a hostile media landscape, writes Ewan Gibbs
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Reviving student action and strike solidarity
The Red Square Movement outline the recent history of student resistance in the UK and their work in organising co-ordinated national action
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Five years of inaction after Grenfell
Grenfell happened because of deregulation, writes Daniel Renwick. Five years after the disaster, far too little has changed
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Key words: Neoliberalism
In the first in our keywords series, Gregk Foley traces the birth of neoliberal economics and how it came to rule the world
