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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Fighting workplace surveillance
Jamie Woodcock examines the growing range of tools bosses use to spy on their workers – and how they can be resisted
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Cryptocurrencies: a view from the left
As cryptocurrencies take the world of finance by storm, Thomas Redshaw examines their rise and what the left should make of them
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Stuart Delivery strike highlights UK’s bogus self-employment problem
By misclassifying workers as ‘self-employed’ companies can trample over labour rights. Liam Kennedy reports on the striking couriers fighting back
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GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?
Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes David King
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The rule of the flesh eaters: capitalism through a horror movie lens
Capitalism entails endless misery and violence writes Mark Steven. Can cinematic horror help us to understand – and overthrow – it?
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Work-related suicides: the UK’s invisible crisis
There is no regulatory oversight of suicides at work in the UK. Sarah Waters makes the case for change
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A history of the Marxists Internet Archive
The Marxists Internet Archive, an online home for radical history, has a fascinating history of its own, writes Jack Archie Stewart
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