Work harder, not smarter: the struggle of young workers

By Niall Hignett, Red Pepper

When employees understand their rights, and know how to protect themselves, they are primed to battle decrepit employment conditions.

A Socio-Ecological Contract for a Post-Pandemic Europe

By Green European Journal Staff, Green European Journal

To truly recover in the years ahead, Europe will need a new socio-ecological contract bringing together questions of inequality, climate and the digital economy.

No Jobs on a Dead Planet

By Chris Saltmarsh, Red Pepper

Nine years since John McDonnell dramatically removed the Speaker’s mace demanding a Parliamentary vote on Heathrow expansion,119 Labour MPs joined Tory MPs to vote for building a third runway at Heathrow airport.

Still Standing or Standing Still?

By Jo Lateu, New Internationalist Blog

Organizing and collective action – whether with the backing of a national union, like Robert, or the support of a handful of co-workers, like the Senegalese street vendors – is a must in the 21st-century fight-back against rapacious employers and neoliberal governments. But it is not easy. In many countries of the Global South, trade unionists put their lives on the line every day to fight injustice, and many are murdered.

Worst Trade Union of the Year Award: a Small Farm Future Special

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

The year, I know, is scarce begun, and yet already I feel able to offer you three strong contenders for this new annual award from the small farm future stable, culled from my recent trip to the Oxford Real Farming Conference.

Overcoming ‘Overburden’: The Climate Crisis and a Unified Left Agenda

By Naomi Klein, Common Dreams

It feels like this could be the beginning of the fight back we have all been waiting for, the one that will chase Harper from power and restore the power of working people in Canada.