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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.

  • Thatcher death celebrations in Trafalgar Square. By Darren Johnson CC-by-2.0

    Thatcher didn’t save the economy, she wrecked it

    Alex Nunns argues that the right’s celebrations of Margaret Thatcher’s economic record are an attempt to rewrite history

  • Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello surrounded by a crowd playing a guitar

    Birth of a new movement: Occupy goes global

    Today there was hardly a city in the world not touched by the occupations, writes Niamh Flynn

  • A plant growing next to a road in Berlin, surrounded by a pebble stone curb

    Dig for victory

    Armed with nothing more than trowels and a vision, guerilla gardeners are part Alan Titchmarsh, part Che Guevara. Their green acts of disobedience are transforming cityscapes around the world, Joanne Clarkson writes

  • Caribbean Cold War

    As the US runs roughshod over international law, Harold Pinter demands justice for Cuba. Eleanor Janega and Jane Holgate contribute their views.

  • On a bright yellow background, the logo for 'Don't Pay Energy Bills' in black, white and yellow

    Debt

    Page has title “Debt”

Pepperista logo 'Pepper' in red text and 'ista' in black font using Red pepper standard font

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