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Red Flags: How Do I Escape the Corporate Nightmare I’ve Created for Myself?

Sophie K Rosa

A reader with a corporate job regrets the concessions they’ve made to capitalism. Plotting the revolution isn’t the only way to resist your conditions, writes Sophie K Rosa.

A person holding a hot water bottle sits beside packets of bills

Red Flags: How the Fuck Am I Supposed to Menstruate Under Capitalism?

Sophie K Rosa

In some times and some cultures, menstruating people have been hidden away, writes Sophie K Rosa. In the UK, we are expected to hide in plain sight, pretending to be something we are not: pain-free, sane, happy, energised.

Novara FM: Our New Cyberboss Overlords

Amazon, Uber and Deliveroo all depend on the power of algorithms to organise and control their employees. Can workers beat the cyberboss?

A woman with a headscarf hugs her young child, who looks sullen

Red Flags: I Have Incurable Cancer. How Do I Live the Time I Have Left?

Sophie K Rosa

Sophie K Rosa addresses a reader with stage four breast cancer, and shares her own relationship with death.

A woman sits at a cluttered desk

Red Flags: I Can’t Fit It All In: How Do I Do My Job and Also Be a Good Person?

Sophie K Rosa

Work, activism, hobbies, exercise, eating, sleeping and showing up for the people you love: In the second instalment of Novara Media's advice column, Red Flags, Sophie K Rosa advises a burnt-out worker who blames herself for not being able to fit it all in.

Novara FM: Will We Still Be Mad After Capitalism?

Mad World author Micha Frazer-Carroll tells Charlotte England why mental health is a political matter.

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ACFM: Microdose: Sitcoms at Work

The gang turn their attention to workplace comedy, from Wernham Hogg to Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

Feature: Quiet Quitting Is No Replacement for Collective Action

Sophie K Rosa

The internet trend suggests anti-work sentiment is on the rise, but it’s individualised. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Explainers: Why BT Workers Are Going on Strike

BT recorded £2 billion in profits before tax last year. Its CEO, Philip Jansen, enjoyed a salary of £3.5 million. Yet it’s now offering engineers & call centre workers a real terms pay CUT. Aaron Bastani explains why BT workers have had enough.

Explainers: The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation

As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.

Report: P&O Ferries is the Tip of the Iceberg When It Comes to Exploitation at Sea

Sally Howard

Racial hierarchies, sexual aggression, 75p wages: the P&O Ferries scandal is entirely in keeping with the outrageously exploitative cruise industry. Sally Howard reports.

Analysis: How Striking Lecturers Won Their Students’ Support

Alessio Koliulis

On the final day of UCU strikes, academic Alessio Koliulis reflects on the rebuilding of staff-student solidarity.

Interview: Sex Work Sucks. So Does Sex. So Does Work.

Laura

When Laura started sex work, she expected a whole new experience. In fact, it was a lot like her old work: drudgerous and dull. As told to Rivkah Brown.

Priti Patel hostile environment coronavirus briefing union jack

Analysis: The Hostile Environment Is Putting Everyone at Greater Risk From Covid

Ella Weldon

The hostile environment isn’t just endangering migrants during the pandemic, it’s endangering us all, writes Ella Weldon.

Ikea worker

Opinion: Ikea Isn’t Cutting Unvaccinated Staff’s Sick Pay to Protect Customers – It’s Doing It to Cut Costs

James Meadway

Ikea has announced it is cutting sick pay for unvaccinated staff, and other companies are following suit. This isn't about principles - it’s textbook divide-and-rule, writes James Meadway.

Influencer Molly-Mae Hague at a PrettyLittleThing event in New York

Opinion: Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is

Anna Cafolla

For Gen Z, it’s easier to believe the myth of meritocracy pedalled by influencers - we can all make it to the top because we have ‘the same hours in a day as Beyonce' - than to accept the truth of a system stacked against us, writes Anna Cafolla.

Analysis: When Will the ‘Great Resignation’ Turn Into the Great Strike?

James Meadway

Nearly a million people in Britain switched jobs over the summer as part of a global wave of resignations. But if we really want to transform the way we live and work, individual acts of refusal aren't enough, writes James Meadway.

A red graphic showing various textures overlaid with graphics representing disability

Opinion: Sex Worker Rights Are Disability Rights

Sophie K Rosa

Tired debates about disability and sex work too often focus on the morality of a disabled man buying sex. Why aren’t we talking about disabled sex workers? Sophie K Rosa reports.

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