Food

Food

• We must stop Universal Credit now: it's already wrecking lives

  

  The government has pushed the full roll-out of Universal Credit further down the road, but we must stop it altogether, argues John Rees

• Fast food, pub and delivery workers strike across the country

  

  The Fast Food Shutdown - #FFS410 - sees TGI Fridays, McDonalds and Wetherspoons workers strike in nine workplaces, joined by UberEats couriers in at least six cities

• Fight for $15: McStrike in the US

  

  Care workers and fast-food workers came together in South Philadephia on US Labor Day

• Epidemics, multinationals and capitalism

  

  From Ebola to swine flu, multinationals and their capitalist production systems are the real causes of new epidemic diseases, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• Hunger pains: life inside Foodbank Britain - extract

  

  As the story of those affected by austerity is exposed on the silver screen, we publish an extract from Kayleigh Garthwaite's topographical study of Foodbank Britain

• Food, free markets and capitalist philanthropy

  

  Free markets cause food shortages, and philanthrocapitalism does nothing to solve the problem, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• A Diet of Austerity

  

  A Diet of Austerityargues that to fight climate change, we need system change, and the blame must not be shifted onto individuals, finds Orlando Hill

• A breath of fresh air

  

  Mark Perryman reviews an exceptionally strong list of autumn political reading