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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A view of the housing crisis from Hull
By Jon Bailey, shortlisted for the Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize 2022
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Work harder, not smarter: the struggle of young workers
Young workers are facing the blunt end of the cost of living crisis. They must organise and fightback, writes Niall Hignett
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Struggle, spies and ’68
Diane Langford recalls some of her most memorable experiences of feminist organising, union activism and solidarity campaigning
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Lashing together a life raft: Covid-19 strategies for the left
Reflecting on two years of Covid-19, James Meadway lays out the challenges the British left will have to adapt to and confront
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Universities, financialisation and the fightback at Goldsmiths
Vincent Møystad argues that as higher education institutions are pitted against each other, students, staff and activists must come together to resist a costly race to the bottom
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Why should socialists read Marx?
Marx remains a vital conversational partner, writes Tom Whyman
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An update from till two
In ‘The view from till two’, published on the Red Pepper website in November 2020, retail worker Tillie described her experiences of the pandemic. Here, she reflects on two years dominated by Covid – and considers what lies ahead
