Got your emerging service worker confused with your established middle class, your precariat with your lumpenproletariat? Let some socialists with work experience provide a real framework for understanding class in the 21st Century
Elly Badcock
Andrew Murray
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Sam Altman. Photo: Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0
07 Jun 2026
AI: just one big trade
Opinion
Health workers put their Personal Protective Equipment on before entering the zone where people are quarantined. 2019 Beni, DR Congo. Source: World Bank Photo Collection - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
04 Jun 2026
Ebola and imperialism
Analysis
Edmund Phelps with Signe Burgstaller, Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permament Mission of Sweden to the UN and Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Economics Laureate. Photo: swedennewyork / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0
29 May 2026
Edmund Phelps: free markets and inflation expectations
Theory
Painting of the French Revolution. Photo: tonynetone / Flickr / CC BY 2.0
29 May 2026
How the Unlikely Revolutionaries changed the World
Analysis
Empty shops in Cosham High Street. Source: Basher Eyre - geograph.org.uk / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0
22 May 2026