PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT – TIME FOR THE FIGHTBACK

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged activism, activists, anti austerity, Arcadia Group, austerity, Australia, bedroom tax, benefits, Boris Johnson, campaigning, climate crisis, climate jobs, construction, corruption, Covid-19, cronyism, CWU, Debenhams, east anglia, engineering, eviction ban, featured, fossil fuels, furlough scheme, gig economy, government, green economy, green industrial revolution, Hospitality, hospitals, Jane Loftus, Jo Rust, jobs, King's Lynn, Labour, MPs, nationalisation, NHS, norwich, pandemic, People Before Profit, Philip Green, PPE, public ownership, recession, redundancies, retail, Serco, social security, tax reform, Topshop, Tories, tourism, trade unions, TUC, uk, Universal Credit, welfare state, wildfires.

By John Sillett

The recent collapse into administration of shop group Arcadia and Debenhams’ department stores was shocking, but not unexpected. Both companies have had their assets looted by their owners; Arcadia’s owner Philip Green has become widely seen as the unacceptable face of capitalism. Whilst the vultures pick over the bones of Topshop and its relations, there has been an avalanche of redundancies in many sectors, from construction to engineering. The pandemic has hastened the collapse or rationalisation of companies depending on footfall, like retail, hospitality and tourism.

WHY NORWICH NEEDS A GREEN NEW DEAL

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged accountability, air pollution, Alexandria Ocasio Coretz, austerity, build back better, carbon emissions, climate change, common ownership, coronavirus, covid, cycling, democracy, economics, featured, gloal justice, government, green economics, green new deal, Green New Deal UK, Green Party, growth, habitats, infrastructure, jobs, Labour, lewes, Liberal Democrats, london, norfolk, Norfolk County Council, norwich, Norwich City Council, pandemic, privatisation, recession, roads, schools, Sheffield, sustainability, uk, USA, wealth inequality.

By Olivia Hanks

Between 2013 and 2019, an era of ‘austerity’, most of us noticed a marked deterioration in the quality of our public spaces and infrastructure – existing roads and pavements not maintained, school buildings getting shabbier, public facilities closing. During that period, Norfolk County Council oversaw at least £725m of funded infrastructure projects. Incredibly, more than £650m of this was for building or widening roads.

WHY WAGES MATTER

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged benefits, cuts, decline, denmark, economy, featured, Ghent, housing, IFS, livelihood, pay gap, recession, salary, statistics, trade union, TUC, uk, unions, wages, welfare, workers.

by Edward Grierson

It goes without saying that the current wage situation in the UK is not good. Following the disastrous speculation on the banks’ behalf that led to the recession, real wages for UK workers fell by 10.4% from 2007-2015, a decline only matched by Greece. Even worse has been the combination of this wage drop with the continued pay gap between employees and the people who employ them: as of 2015, the salary of a UK CEO was nearly 130 times that of the average UK worker’s salary.

The reason why this is a concern, why we should be worried about falling wages, surely is obvious.Continue Reading

WHAT THE GLOB IS GOING ON IN BRAZIL?

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged art, Brazil, car wash, comic, comics journalism, corruption, coup, cover up, crisis, Dilma Rousseff, Eduardo Cunha, history, impeachment, investigation, Lula, media, Michel Temer, MSM, Odebrecht, original art, Petrobras, politics, recession, report, scandal, Sergio Moro, supermoro, Worker's Party, Zika virus.

by Aline Zouvi

Comics journalism covering the impeachment of Brazil president Dilma Rousseff, and what it means for Brazil as a whole.
Latest news update – not covered in the comic – is from 09.05.16: the impeachment vote has currently been annulled.

IT’S GRIM UP NORTH: HOW THE NORTH OF BRITAIN HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged austerity, British Isles, City, crisis, divide, economy, Game of Thrones, george osborne, GoT, Great Britain, independece, industry, inequality, london, mining, North, Plaid Cymru, politics, poverty, recession, Scotland, snp, south, steelworks, the north remembers, UKIP, Wales, westminster.

by Pierce Robinson

The North – South divide in the British Isles is still one of the most controversial topics in contemporary UK politics and society. The economic and political differences between the two ends of the country have been a common characteristic of these islands for decades. If you live anywhere north of Birmingham, the signs that you have entered a different part of the country are clear, even just the fact that you would choose gravy chips over a kebab – but most importantly, the level of poverty increases dramatically. The United Kingdom has the highest level of inequality in Western Europe, yet with a capital city that continues to flourish every day, why are we not seeing the similar signs of fortune increase in the North?Continue Reading

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WHY NORWICH NEEDS A GREEN NEW DEAL

By Olivia Hanks

WHY WAGES MATTER

WHAT THE GLOB IS GOING ON IN BRAZIL?

IT’S GRIM UP NORTH: HOW THE NORTH OF BRITAIN HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND

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