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Report: Jobcentre Staff Were Taught to Inflict ‘Psychological Harm’ on the Unemployed
by Sophie K Rosa
A new report reveals how the coalition government pressured jobcentre staff to bully the unemployed out of claiming benefits. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: Universal Credit Is a Symptom of Britain’s Broken Jobs Market
by Andrew Fisher
Boris Johnson seems to think that cutting the £20 uplift to universal credit will enable him to create high-paid jobs, writes Andrew Fisher. He's living, as Adam Curtis would say, in a dream world.
Long Read: The Left Won’t Win the 2020s by Clinging to the Corpse of the Labour Party
by Jonas Marvin
James Schneider's undying Labourism, expressed in his recent series How We Win, obscures an important truth: the next left surge will take place against the state, not within it.
Opinion: Rising Unemployment Is Making Us Depressed. But We Are More Than Our Work
by Harriet Williamson
Pandemic-driven unemployment has shown that basing our self-worth on our productivity is unsustainable. As we emerge from a year of lockdowns, we must rethink our relationship to work, writes Harriet Williamson.
Analysis: How We Win: The Movements
by James Schneider
Arguments are won with actions, not words. If socialist ideas are to become reality, we need power, and to generate it, we need movements, writes Momentum co-founder James Schneider.
Downstream: Make America Normal Again. Interview With Adam Tooze
Joe Biden is President-elect of the United States. But what might his Presidency mean for working class Americans, US foreign policy and perceived national decline? Does his victory represent a return to political ‘normality’ after 4 years of the Trump White House? And what might Trump’s legacy be within the Republican Party? Joining Aaron Bastani […]
Opinion: Rishi Sunak Isn’t Interested in Helping Young People – Free Labour Is Good for Business
by Ellen Clifford
The chancellor's plan to invest billions in 'creating jobs for young people' sounds sensible amid the sharpest ever rise in unemployment. But anti-welfare reform campaigners recognise his proposals for what they are, writes Ellen Clifford: an expansion of workfare, designed to benefit businesses at the expense of workers.
Opinion: From Climate to Jobs, Sunak’s Budget ‘Event’ Falls Short of the Protections We Need
by Grace Blakeley
Unless the government invests in creating millions of new, secure, well-paid green jobs, the ‘recovery’ from the pandemic will be even weaker – if it even comes at all. Grace Blakeley on the chancellor's underwhelming summer statement.
Tackling the Mental Health Crisis Means Defeating Neoliberalism Once and For All
by Jay Watts
Labour needs to get radical, resisting the cross-party agreements on mental illness which foreclose the reality that though we may ‘all have mental health’ the chance of us breaking down are deeply indexed to our relative place in society.
Of Demagogues and Democrats
by A.R. Naraghi
The Rise of Trump has exposed the crumbling facade of neoliberal politics and a long line of elites refusing to address its failings. Now, is the time to address these mistakes. But is that a challenge they are willing to take?
4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time
by Nick Srnicek
What does automation mean for the future of employment? Some fear it will cast us to the scrapheap while the automated economy grinds on; others argue technological developments have always created new jobs. But could it ever mean something different entirely?
4 Ways Generation Y is Being Taken for a Ride (and 3 Ways it’s Pushing Back)
by AltGen
Youth unemployment is sky-rocketing and Cameron is seeking to take away benefits from young people. Against this trend of declining living standards, students in the US are organising debt strikes and in the UK youth-led workers' co-operatives are multiplying.
Don’t Spend It All At Once! 7 Things ‘Wage Increases’ Can’t Hide
by Eleanor Penny
As George Osborne heralds the arrival of new figures which put average earnings above inflation for the first time in four years, we cut through the smoke, mirrors and bell ringing to show how misdirection can't mitigate the ongoing cost of living crisis.
6 Things You Need To Know About Recent Protests in Bosnia
by Heather McRobie
Anti-corruption protests, nationalists jumping on the bandwagon, and the EU lurking in the background. Sound familiar? Think again. While news coverage has been dominated by events first in Kiev and now in Crimea, it's all been kicking off in Bosnia.
Weaponising Workfare
by Aaron Peters
In an article originally posted at 'Our Kingdom' at Open Democracy in March 2013 Bastani looks at the relationship between the secular crisis, surplus populations, automation and workfare policies.