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Precarious work and contemporary capitalism
Deliveroo riders hold a protest over pay outside the company HQ in Torrington Place, London
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
The language of war obscures what genocide scholars describe as a sustained project of erasure, enabled by global power, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
SCARCELY a week goes by at the moment without some press story about precarious work in Britain, and it’s undeniable that something profound has happened to Britain’s labour market.
The full employment boasted by Tories is in truth closer to full under-employment — a swelling in the ranks of part-time workers.
Self-employment, real and bogus has expanded massively. But what exactly is going on? And how should the labour movement respond?
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