Politicians like nothing better than to do much about nothing. Thus, forceful opinions from Tory and Labour seem to intersect as indecipherable inflections of a consensual agreement. These two flailing political monarchs slip around on melting ice while grappling clumsily for some secure footing, agreeing on nothing, except an allegiance to […]

This piece was featured in OT21, which examined the politics of work – You can read it in full below. The Importance of Work Work, we can’t really avoid it. Human civilisation has been built on work, the labouring of many billions of people throughout history has created the cities, farms, industries, […]

The occupation at the University of Sussex began on 7 February over the university management’s intention to outsource 235 jobs to private companies. Since then a “Sussex Against Privatisation” blog has received heavy traffic, and yellow squares – the adopted symbol of the campaign –  which have become ubiquitous across […]

It seems somehow fitting that we began writing this editorial on the day that Margaret Thatcher died. After over thirty years of neoliberal governance, we are now being subjected to the next malevolent mutation of the state she revolutionised. The neoliberal project has rewritten many of the rules that British […]

With the launch of our latest issue, the Occupied Times is moving to a new website, which can be found at www.theoccupiedtimes.org. All of our content, from the first ever issue until now, can be found on the new site – so please take a moment to update your bookmarks […]

“If the Man was sticking it to me, well then I’d stick it to the Man” Health is everywhere right now. With the Olympics on the horizon, for good or bad (and let’s face it – that sponsorship rollcall is a who’s who of rotters), every man, woman, child and […]

What does ‘work’ mean today? Anyone looking for work, anyone in low-paid or non-permanent work, or being pressured into one of the five kinds of workfare that Boycott Workfare identify (Mandatory Work Activity, The Work Programme, Community Action Programme, Sector-based Work Academies and Work Experience) will have firsthand experience of […]