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
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Young people the latest target in Labour’s lurch to the right
Labour’s austerity-inspired welfare proposals will penalise young adults for circumstances beyond their control, writes Andrew Dolan
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Stagnation and securitisation: Understanding the 2008 financial crisis
Jack Copley provides an introduction to An Angry Person’s Guide to Finance — a free Red Pepper pamphlet
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How to know if you’ve been blacklisted and what you can do
Solicitor David Sorensen explains what the blacklisting scandal could mean to you.
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Cybersyn and Allende’s socialist internet
Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup
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The local: for and against
Greg Sharzer argues that movements have to confront the capitalist crisis, not carve spaces away from it. Below, Hilary Wainwright writes that we must avoid the false dichotomy between organising locally and on a broader stage
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‘In Gezi Park there is free food, medical care, a kids’ area and a library’
Ece Bulut gives us the latest from Istanbul’s Gezi Park, and looks at how the movement is organising – and changing people
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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
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