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David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social · 1d

against Labour's plan to ban repeat protests

theconversation.com/labour-wants...

Labour wants to restrict repeat protests – but that’s what makes campaigns successful

Since entering office, the Labour government has further tightened restrictions on the right to protest.

theconversation.com

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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Aug 15

@djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while #AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger resistance: buff.ly/nVBFBQj

In the age of AI realism, where do we stand – willing enablers, passive observers or active resisters? - Transforming Society

David Bailey and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger…

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

"The degree to which AI is able to harm our society and environment will depend on how best we can organise in opposition to those harms."
New blog from @djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri on why we need to #ResistAI

Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Aug 15

@djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while #AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger resistance: buff.ly/nVBFBQj

In the age of AI realism, where do we stand – willing enablers, passive observers or active resisters? - Transforming Society

David Bailey and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger…

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · May 14

Yesterday @ducu.bsky.social passed this motion in solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social.

I didn't write this lightly, but at this point I wasn't sure what else to do.

@ucu.org.uk staff are essential to letting the union run. They back us so we back them.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Motion to ban General Secretary from DUCU pickets and other events until UNITE UCU dispute resolved

Motion to ban General Secretary from DUCU pickets and other events until UNITE UCU dispute resolved Motion passed: 55% in favour, 24% against, 21% abstained. This branch notes: The consistent suppor...

docs.google.com

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Apr 24

When, some months ago, we first posted our members’ testimonies - lived experiences of working for UCU - our employer’s only response was a demand they be removed. No contrition, shame or concern for their staff: just an anger we’d shared them.

#UniteVoices

uniteucu.wordpress.com/campaign-cam...

“I feel more and more disheartened, depressed and stressed by working for UCU. I am trying to just get on and do my job in as professional a manner as I can. However, this is increasingly difficult... The current working ‘atmosphere’ is dire and makes me feel huge doubt and uncertainty. This has severely negatively impacted my motivation and my job satisfaction in addition to my levels of stress.”

“Whilst off work sick for a protracted period, dosed up with pain medications and immobile I was sent an email advising that my white colleague (also off sick) was to be sent flowers and well wishes in a card from our team.
Nothing was sent to me from the team and it felt like as a black colleague you weren't seen, your pain wasn't seen and you weren’t cared for.”

“[I’m] Ashamed I work for an employer who has such double standards in the way they have treated employees compared to what they say to members… UCU has been very vocal about Trans and Non-Binary issues that affect UCU members and many UCU staff have worked really hard on policy and training – so why should UCU management be stalling over this for employees?”

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Apr 11

#UniteVoices

“I get up each day knowing that no manager within UCU will care if I do any work on that day.
On some days, in fact, I strongly suspect that it would be preferred that I do not do the majority of the tasks that are outlined in my job description, or attempt to implement the democratic decisions of UCU members through my work."

“As an ex-union activist, I naively thought that working for a union would mean I could concentrate on a union's mission to defend members rights and use all my time supporting members in their fights. Instead, I'm witnessing the same callous behaviour from my employer as the ones this very union is calling out. I am so furious at the hypocrisy."

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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · Apr 2

Early-Career Marxism Roundtable
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CSE/Capital & Class Early Career & Independent Researchers (ECIR) Network Launch

Organised by Elio di Muccio & David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social

Are you a doctoral/EC scholar working w Marxism? Join this roundtable in Birmingham
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Early Career Marxism Roundtable - Expression of Interest

Organised by the Conference of Socialist Economists / Capital & Class Are you a PhD student or an early-career researcher working within Marxism or critical approaches inspired by Marxist and sociali...

docs.google.com

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David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social · Apr 2

Anti-AI - nice to see this new piece - How we might be Anti-AI, co-authored with Iran Mansouri just out in
@gpejournal.bsky.social

Trying to think different ways to imagine alternatives to a life reduced to objects of capitalist quantification

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · Mar 31

Is #AI adoption really inevitable? Masoumeh Iran Mansouri & David J. Bailey challenge this narrative and set out five ways to be ‘anti-AI’.
doi.org/10.1332/2635...
#AIresistance

How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative

The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in ord...

doi.org

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CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · Feb 25

Reminder: Join our Online Workshop on 27 February to discuss 'Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia'

With authors Saori Shibata & David Bailey

Discussants:
@ndeiana.bsky.social
& Max Nagel

Link: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

See you there!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly meeting - Feb 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia Saori Shibata (University of Sheffield) David Bailey (University of Birmingham) discussants: Nicolò Deiana, PhD...

bham-ac-uk.zoom.us

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