When the Algorithm Is Your Boss
At workplaces like Amazon, algorithms have become the worst kind of boss – one who watches you constantly, makes impossible demands and then sacks you without explanation.
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Bloody Sunday at 50
50 years ago today, British Paratroopers shot dead 14 unarmed civilians during a civil rights march in Derry. The massacre became a worldwide symbol of state brutality – and community resilience.
The ‘Great Resignation’ Is Our Chance to Change Hospitality for Good
The labour shortage in hospitality has bosses panicking – it's the perfect time to unionise and force one of modern capitalism's most exploitative sectors to overhaul the way it treats its workers.
The Next Pandemic
We can take action today to stop the next pandemic, from preventing environmental destruction to properly funding health systems across the world – but there is little sign that governments are willing to do it.
Honduras Is Latin America’s Latest Left Turn
Yesterday, Xiomara Castro was inaugurated as the new socialist president of Honduras, a little over a decade after a US-backed coup against Manuel Zelaya – it's the latest sign that Latin America's left is on the rise.
Don’t Trust the Met
The Met's intervention into the Sue Gray report should come as no surprise: cover-ups are in its DNA.
Remembrance and Resistance
In August 1944, Auschwitz prisoners smuggled a camera into the gas chambers and took four shaky photographs of the horrors happening there. Their defiant act of documentation shaped our understanding of history forever.
Cricket’s Class Wars
The establishment often claims cricket has a 'spirit' that transcends the class divide. But from the sport’s early hostility to working class radicalism to the sell-off of fields under Thatcher, class is key to understanding its history.
The Tories Don’t Care About Your Freedom
Along with banning protest and engaging in voter suppression, the government’s attempt to dilute the Human Rights Act is the latest proof that the only right Tories care about is their right to screw you over.
Gabriel Boric’s Cabinet Is a First Step in Chile’s Break with Neoliberalism
Gabriel Boric's Cabinet is Chile's most left-wing in decades, but remains a compromise with the moderate forces which dominate Parliament – a sign that the fight against neoliberalism is only beginning.
The Story of Tantura Is the Story of Palestine’s Nakba
The story of the 1948 massacre at Tantura exposes the brutality of the Nakba – and the coordinated effort to deny Palestinian accounts of atrocities in favour of Israel’s whitewashed narratives.
The Tories’ Latest Crackdown on Trade Unions
Later today, a committee will vote on new anti-union measures including levies and severe fines – it’s part of the government’s campaign to deter workers from organising amid the cost of living crisis.