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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.

  • A young smiling child pours water from a watering can over a bed of sprouting plants as a smiling older person looks on at the Golden Hill Community Garden

    The future is now: rethinking public ownership

    Hilary Wainwright introduces ‘prefigurative politics’ and Ursula Huws explains how community ownership can encourage a fruitful rethink of public ownership amid a cost-of-living crisis

  • A crowd of young people hold up a large hand painted banner that reads 'Another world is possible' with a wind turbine and bike painted on it, with the hashtag slogan: 'No more empty promises' at the bottom

    Against capitalist realism

    Ayça Çubukçu urges us to reimagine not only a fairer world, but a just one in which we demand the impossible

  • On a white background, three illustrated posters show male oil workers resisting colonial power (as US and British flags) and state repression

    A new revolutionary web: oil workers and resistance in Iran

    Oil worker strikes in Iran are different this time. The latest spate of industrial action is rallying support for Iranian women, writes A.N.

  • An illustration shows an 1980s style arcade machine with small human figures running out of the screen, with dotted lines on a green and purple background. The text reads: 'Games Transformed: Love games, hate capitalism'

    All to play for: towards a left gaming culture

    Gerry Hart shares personal reflections on the politics of gaming, inspired by a one-day festival of games hosted by The World Transformed

  • The food aisle of an Asda supermarket

    Britain’s broken food system

    As food insecurity continues to rise, the Right to Food campaign argues argues our food production practices are unfit for purpose

  • A rally of protesters march behind a large banner that reads: 'McStrike'

    Workers Can Win – review

    If you’re looking to organise your workplace, Ian Allinson’s book is a vital and useful guide, writes Lydia Hughes

  • The Ivy House pub in Nunhead, London, one of many community owned pubs in the UK

    The politics of pub culture

    Pubs are not only integral sites of communal solidarity, but of the struggle for workers’ liberation, writes Amardeep Singh Dhillon

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