Big tech, ever on the hunt for new markets for their generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, are pushing hard to get them into public schools as well as colleges and universities. Their inter...

I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...

Social Reproduction Metabolism: The Labouring Body and Workers’ Struggles for Time and Space at Chokepoints in Brazil and Portugal

-Christoph Scherrer In the 2010s, after decades of widespread lawlessness on the world’s oceans, the International Labour Organization (ILO) established the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2…

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Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...

Global supply chains account for 70% of world trade. They are the arteries of global capitalism, moving goods and services across borders multiple times before reaching consumers. Since the early 1990...

Outsourced workers at Airedale Hospital are striking for equal pay, pensions, and conditions with their NHS colleagues. Email the Airedale Trust Chief Executive and ask her to intervene.

‘We Want Our Country Back’ – On Saturday, 6 September, the third Saturday in a row, English nationalists draped in union jack and St George ...

“Due to social unrest, the Musée d'Orsay is closed,” a sign might have read on Wednesday (Sept. 10), when tourists were not able to admire the works of Courbet. The great revolutionary painter would h...

Use our quick and easy tool to send a powerful letter to your MP – written by Over 250 Kenyan tea farmers and workers. Help make trade fairer for the people behind your tea.

-Benjamin Velasco Myanmar and Hong Kong offer a compelling comparative study of labour responses to authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. In both countries, extreme repression severely cur…

In his Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci invokes the “Fable of the Beaver” to critique the political failings of party leaders who compromise their obligation to represent the classes that raised them...

The EU’s export trade in banned pesticides has expanded dramatically in recent years, despite promises to end the practice

This is an astonishing world. Blame for current disasters cannot be offloaded to ‘human nature’. All who take care of children know that children can learn to live within limits and that they can deve...