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Retail sector highlights

  • Britain / The collapse of Wilko

    Wilko stores across the country are expected to close over the next few weeks with the chain struggling to find a buyer.

    1 Sep 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Capitalist crisis / Oxfam identifies inequalities in shocking detail, but provides no solution

    Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?

    25 Aug 2023 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise

    An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation.

    6 Feb 2023 ,
  • Disputes / Amazon workers against Victorian working conditions and derisory pay

    Despite unions being banned by Amazon, its British staff have been staging wildcat actions in defence of their right to decent pay and conditions.

    11 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Support the Felixstowe dockers!

    Workers at the country’s busiest port are using their collective power to demand a pay rise in line with rampant inflation.

    23 Aug 2022 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Sainsbury’s CEO in the money as workers feel the pinch

    As conditions for the mass of workers get rapidly worse, the obscene inequalities of the system come into ever-sharper relief.

    15 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover

    When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.

    23 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Economy / GameStop stops Wall Street

    Activist amateur traders ‘driven by righteous anger’ very nearly broke at least one hedge vulture’s bank, causing panic on the stock exchange.

    2 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless figures mount as Paperchase is latest retail chain to fail

    As the economic crisis is exacerbated by repeated lockdowns, company after company is going to the wall.

    7 Jan 2021 ,
  • Economy / Debenhams, Arcadia: Making workers pay for the crisis

    Tens of thousands are set to lose jobs and suffer pension cuts, once again making workers pay the price for capitalism’s failings.

    4 Dec 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Edinburgh Woollen Mill: the vultures circle

    Thousands of workers look set to lose their jobs, but the man whose fortune they made will have no trouble hanging onto his millions.

    19 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / FT spills the beans on private equity scam

    The super-rich are indulging in an orgy of speculation using the ‘free money’ of low-interest debt. Who pays?

    23 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Go Outdoors ‘rescued’ – for now

    Financial fancy footwork may allow the chain’s owners to sidestep onerous lease conditions as high street footfall plunges.

    2 Jul 2020 ,

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