Work doesn’t pay and British families know it

Gig economy highlights

Social wage / Work doesn’t pay and British families know it

Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.

19 Feb 2020 ,
Film and TV / Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You

A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.

8 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
Pay and conditions / GMB protest at Rugeley Amazon

British trade union seems more worried about defending the profits of shareholders than the interests of workers.

21 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker

Disputes / Deliveroo strikes spread

Increasing numbers of workers in the gig economy are fighting for basic rights at work.

17 Mar 2019 ,
Disputes / Deliveroo strike in Bristol: gig economy workers fight back

Resistance to the poverty pay and union-busting tactics of so many zero-hour and gig economy employers is gathering momentum.

23 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers

The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.

15 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
Society / Meaningful employment is a right for all

Useful work well done for collective benefit brings personal fulfilment. A society that can't provide such work to its members is not fit for purpose.

28 Oct 2018 ,
Pay and conditions / Courier strikes

As the food delivery industry consolidates itself, the winning companies and putting the screws on drivers to up their profits.

16 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
Industry / Dental industry: another ‘self-employed’ scam

Privatisation has led to massive concentration in dentistry, with employees rebranded as ‘associates’.

10 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
Disputes / Support the fast food strikers!

Fast food workers across Britain are organising to demand decent pay and conditions.

3 Oct 2018 ,
Pay and conditions / Gig economy faces legal setbacks

Curbs being put on fictitious ‘self-employment’.

9 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
Pay and conditions / Court victory for workers’ rights

Supreme court makes landmark ruling against the practice of fake 'self-employment' by which companies strip workers of their rights.

27 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
Disputes / TGI Fridays staff strike over tips ‘redistribution’

Cut-throat competition in the oversupplied public dining sector is forcing real wages down even as the minimum wage officially goes up.

21 Jun 2018 ,
Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

12 Feb 2018 ,

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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

We do not advocate and we cannot allow the bourgeoisie to impose this divisive ideology upon us.
2
Venezuela’s foreign minister: ‘Lenin’s definition of imperialism was correct’
3
How the EU is demolishing pensions
4
The blatant hypocrisy of the USA’s lies about China’s Uighur muslims
5
Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president
6
China will beat the coronavirus
7
Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle
8
Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism
9
Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend
10
Why gay rights is not a class issue

Gig economy highlights

Social wage / Work doesn’t pay and British families know it

Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.

Film and TV / Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You

A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.

Pay and conditions / GMB protest at Rugeley Amazon

British trade union seems more worried about defending the profits of shareholders than the interests of workers.

Disputes / Deliveroo strikes spread

Increasing numbers of workers in the gig economy are fighting for basic rights at work.

Disputes / Deliveroo strike in Bristol: gig economy workers fight back

Resistance to the poverty pay and union-busting tactics of so many zero-hour and gig economy employers is gathering momentum.

Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers

The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.

Society / Meaningful employment is a right for all

Useful work well done for collective benefit brings personal fulfilment. A society that can't provide such work to its members is not fit for purpose.

Pay and conditions / Courier strikes

As the food delivery industry consolidates itself, the winning companies and putting the screws on drivers to up their profits.

Industry / Dental industry: another ‘self-employed’ scam

Privatisation has led to massive concentration in dentistry, with employees rebranded as ‘associates’.

Disputes / Support the fast food strikers!

Fast food workers across Britain are organising to demand decent pay and conditions.

Pay and conditions / Gig economy faces legal setbacks

Curbs being put on fictitious ‘self-employment’.

Pay and conditions / Court victory for workers’ rights

Supreme court makes landmark ruling against the practice of fake 'self-employment' by which companies strip workers of their rights.

Disputes / TGI Fridays staff strike over tips ‘redistribution’

Cut-throat competition in the oversupplied public dining sector is forcing real wages down even as the minimum wage officially goes up.

Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

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The blatant hypocrisy of the USA’s lies about China’s Uighur muslims

Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

China will beat the coronavirus

Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle

Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend

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