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contENTs Regulars Cover story 8 21 23 3 Editorial Siobhán McGuirk 6 Letters On the web 8 Snapshots The world in struggle – pictures 27 The Spark Sarli Nana 47 And roses too Amardeep Singh Dhillon 53 Keywords Dialectics 66 The last word Simon Hedges 12 In search of better lives The wide range of migrant experiences challenges popular imaginaries 14 Buen vivir, buen migrar The museum dedicated to dignifying migration 18 Golden visas and iron bars Cash for citizenship: a gross global disparity 20 Solidarity across borders Sharing strategies to defend migrants’ rights 24 Traffic control The realities of labour migration and the shortcomings of antitrafficking policies Cover illustration by Cherie Kwok cheriekwok.co.uk 14 4 RED PEPPER Spring 2023
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The Body 28 Birthing while black How maternity services fail 30 Labour pains Challenging medical institutions’ control over our bodies 30 32 Better bodies The case for a ‘transhumanist’ socialist future 34 The coming of age Old age and the ageing process cannot be divorced from the system as a whole 32 40 36 Bodies and bombs in Peshawar The sustained and collective trauma of repeated witness 38 Body work Hookers against Hardship 40 Living with the virus The understated scourge of long Covid 38 Mutuality 48 The future is now Prefigurative politics and rethinking public ownership Essay 42 Cannibal capitalism To save democracy, care and the planet, we need to address capital’s insatiable need to devour them 48 Inspired by Tom Nairn Writers from Scotland, Wales and England pay tribute Books 56 Reviews Troublemaking; Greater than the Sum of Our Parts; Migrants; Different Class 58 Books previews 63 Culture previews 63 RED PEPPER Spring 2023 5

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contENTs

Regulars

Cover story

8

21

23

3 Editorial Siobhán McGuirk

6 Letters On the web

8 Snapshots The world in struggle – pictures

27 The Spark Sarli Nana

47 And roses too Amardeep Singh Dhillon

53 Keywords Dialectics

66 The last word Simon Hedges

12 In search of better lives The wide range of migrant experiences challenges popular imaginaries

14 Buen vivir, buen migrar The museum dedicated to dignifying migration

18 Golden visas and iron bars Cash for citizenship: a gross global disparity

20 Solidarity across borders Sharing strategies to defend migrants’ rights

24 Traffic control The realities of labour migration and the shortcomings of antitrafficking policies

Cover illustration by Cherie Kwok cheriekwok.co.uk

14

4 RED PEPPER Spring 2023

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