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Fulfilling orders: Automation, control and resistance at Amazon
After his brief space journey in July 2021, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos said, with disarming frankness, “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all of this.”
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Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests
Germany’s students, labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, say their right to free speech is under attack.
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The mutiny at Dominica, 9 April 1802
As a Black army of mercenaries from Kenya, Barbados, Jamaica, and elsewhere arrives to continue the West’s colonial project in Haiti, we remember the history of the 1802 mutiny of African soldiers at Dominica.
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Tariffs, technology and industrial policy
Last Tuesday, the trade and technology war launched by the U.S/.on China back in 2019 took another ratchet up.
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Follow the money: How Israel-linked billionaires silenced U.S. campus protests
America’s universities are on fire.
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Neo-liberalism has increased mass poverty
It is not a difficult proposition to substantially reduce poverty through redistributive measures. About one tenth of India’s GDP would need to be devoted to providing adequate food for the population, basic and comprehensive healthcare, compulsory free education, employment guarantee and old age pension; for which additional taxation of 7 per cent of GDP that the rich and super-rich can easily bear, would be needed. Combined with vigorous implementation of the existing National Food Security Act 2013 and the MG National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, genuine large-scale reduction of poverty would result
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Dossier No. 76: The New Cold War is sending tremors through Northeast Asia
This dossier looks at how the U.S.-led New Cold War against China is destabilizing Northeast Asia, focusing on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Strait, and Japan.
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League of imperialist criminals denounces the International Criminal Court
Prosecuting the war criminals, halting the genocide, and preventing the further escalation of a third world war are tasks inseparably connected with the fight for the revolutionary transformation of society under the leadership of the working class, which will replace capitalist barbarism with socialism.
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Keep on rockin’ in the free world: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2024)
On the evening of 14 May, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken climbed onstage at Barman Dictat in Kyiv, Ukraine, to pick up an electric guitar and join the Ukrainian punk band 19.99.
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What’s wrong with carbon capture?
It sounds wonderful. Politicians and fossil fuel companies love it. But more often than not carbon capture and storage (CCS) is raised as a smokescreen for something that will harm the world.
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If you can’t even elect a candidate who’ll end a genocide, how real is your “democracy”?
If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they never get a vote.
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National Endowment For Democracy continues to weaponize human rights
The latest example is its pressing for release of John McCain pallbearer from Siberian jail while it ignores a socialist arrested by the Ukrainian intelligence services and another socialist who was murdered.
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‘Extremely harrowing’: British surgeon’s Gaza testimony buried by the ‘MSM’
Propaganda by omission is a dominant feature of the ‘mainstream’ news media.
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A generational challenge: Taming Amazon, renewing labour
As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced.
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian students, teacher and doctor in Jenin assault
Troops open fire indiscriminately at Palestinians amid large-scale incursion in West Bank city.
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Capitalism’s new age of plagues (Part 5): The pandemic machines
In March, Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, reported that chickens in one of its Texas egg factories had contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Type A–better known as Bird Flu. To stop the disease from spreading, the corporation slaughtered 1.6 million birds.
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Vulture capitalism
Grace Blakeley is a media star of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement. She is a columnist for the left-wing journal, Tribune, and a regular panellist on political debates in broadcasting—often the only spokesperson on the left advocating socialist alternatives.
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A Senator who rose to power with help of Cuban hardliners
Sen. Bob Menendez, the most powerful Cuban-American to serve in Congress, goes on trial in Manhattan on May 13 on bribery and other charges.
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A captive’s musings on freedom: Gautam Navlakha’s notes from prison
It is at a time like this that one faces a critical choice: to either fall silent and submit to the authorities or to continue to strive and struggle for freedom, unmindful of the outcome.
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CIA targeting smartphone app data
The same agencies that used and abused private user data with total impunity for years are being granted responsibility for crafting their own internal policies for what is and isn’t acceptable to intercept, analyse, exploit, and act upon.