Economics, unions and work

As privatisation, globalisation and tech capitalism generate new forms of exploitation, we cover the failing economic status quo, the growth of alternatives and the voices of workers organising resistance

As privatisation, globalisation and tech capitalism generate new forms of exploitation, we cover the failing economic status quo, the growth of alternatives and the voices of workers organising resistance

  • The Chopwell Lodge National Union of Mineworkers banner, featuring depictions of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Labour Party founder Keir Hardie, at the 2023 Durham Miner's Gala

    The Gala returns

    The Durham Miner’s Gala returned in July for the first time since the pandemic. Gerry Hart reflects on the Gala’s history and enduring significance

  • Two students embracing whilst looking at exam results

    Rebuilding collective intelligence

    Human capital theory cannot solve our economic woes, David Ridley explains why we need a socialist alternative

  • A suburban street with houses that have light brown walls and dark brown roofs, behind green leafy hedges

    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

  • Photo of an RMT Union picket line outside a railway station

    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

  • Crowdshot of students protesting in 2019

    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

  • A leafy low-rise square with the burned remains of Grenfell Tower in the background

    Five years of inaction after Grenfell

    Grenfell happened because of deregulation, writes Daniel Renwick. Five years after the disaster, far too little has changed

  • Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (left) and former US President Ronald Reagan (right) sat together in a golf cart

    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

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