Defeats become deeper and more prolonged when we misunderstand what caused them, avoid correcting course, and embrace “solutions” that only compound our mistakes. Lula’s government and the Brazilian l...

-Yury Varlamov On 12 June 2026, the International Labour Conference adopted ILO Convention No. 193 on Decent Work in the Platform Economy by an overwhelming majority, with 406 votes in favour, 8 ag…

The United States had a Tricky Dick. Canada has a Sneaky Mark. Contextualizing Part III of Bill C-39—Labour Relations A collective bargaining regime which does not permit a workers’ union to conduct a...

The UK government has agreed a deal with Donald Trump that could see the NHS pay pharma companies an extra £3 billion a year for drugs. Experts say that diverting NHS funding to pay for this deal woul...

The 18th-century notion of the panopticon – a circular prison design with a guard station in the middle, allowing a single officer to enforce discipline by keeping watch over all the prisoners – has b...

Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodn...

The September 14 demonstration against Mark Carney’s CEO summit was a big boost for the Left. Some 2,000 people participated in the Confront Carney’s CEO Summit protest in Toronto, which included a “C...

Sam Gindin is one of the most exacting and capacious thinkers on the socialist Left today. With decades of experience in the labour movement as research director for the Canadian Auto Workers (which m...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh today (Monday) start five-weeks of strikes in a dispute over £140million cuts and compulsory redundancies. The strike f...

Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.

The notion that so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are destined to degrade human labour, if not destroy it altogether, has become a commonplace. In a report published in 2023, Goldman...

In person AGMs play an important role in holding powerful companies to account. The UK Government is proposing changes that could allow companies to hold their AGMs entirely online. Online-only AGMs...

Nearly ninety years ago, Ford kept its own private security force on the payroll for whenever they needed to beat up union supporters. Having traded in the brass knuckles and baseball bats of the earl...

Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.

The Palestinian labour movement reiterates its solidarity with workers across the world resisting all forms of oppression and calls for global action to end complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide and...

A rare firsthand account of life inside the FARC: Tanja Nijmeijer launches her new memoir.

On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...

On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...

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Across the UK, the People’s Emergency Briefing is currently being screened to large audiences. It is intended as a wake-up call just in tim...

Some 950,000 Europeans move to another member state each year, and many land in jobs beneath their qualifications.

Privatisation has broken our water system. Evidence shows public ownership can bring fairer, cleaner and cheaper water. That’s why I'm backing the People’s Plan for Water. Join me:

Ein Naturparadies vor der Küste Patagoniens – doch jetzt drohen Öl- und Gas-Terminals. Die deutsche Bundesregierung könnte Unternehmen diese Klima- und Naturzerstörung durch eine Staatsgarantie erst e...

In March 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was published. Four months later, 13 North American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Both events were in the air. Economists b...

The government continues to defend its export licensing system, which is supposed to account for “peace, security, human rights and International Humanitarian Law violations” despite UK-produced weapo...

This is the fourth and final post in a multipart series aimed at cutting through the fog of AI hype in order to help us understand some of the dangers we face from AI use and highlight hopeful avenues...

More than 15,000 teenagers answered a call from Nima Tekido, an entertainment producer and YouTube personality, to attend an event at Iran Mall in Tehran in July 2026. Although only 4,000 tickets had ...

This is the third post in a multipart series aimed at cutting through the fog of artificial intelligence (AI) hype in order to help us understand some of the real dangers we face from AI use and highl...

Getting banks to pay more tax on their profits to help us with the cost of living is common sense. They’re raking in billions while the rest of us are struggling. We've seen this pattern before. The h...

Attendees of the NATO summit in Ankara in early July were anxious. Prior to the gathering, Donald Trump threatened to withdraw the US from the 32-member alliance, primarily because the organization ha...

Nine Quebec unions say Law 4 violates the ILO Convention on Freedom of Association and the Protection of the Right to Organise.

Wissenschaftler*innen in Deutschland brennen aus 👩‍🎓🚨 Der Grund: Kettenbefristungen. Nun liegt ein neuer Gesetzentwurf vor. Doch der greift zu kurz. ➡️ Jetzt WeAct-Petition von Gewerkschaften und Wis...

In March 2022 the Nayib Bukele administration in El Salvador invoked an emergency measure called a

An action to send your MP a briefing, detailing the reasons why public ownership is the best next step for Thames Water

Enough is enough. Devastating wildfires are threatening our communities, our wildlife, and our landscapes 🌳 We need the UK Gov to back our amazing fire fighters and invest in a real national wildfire ...

What began as a small group of state workers fighting against the patronage system in Wisconsin 90 years ago has transformed into the AFSCME we know today — a 1.4-million- member labor powerhouse that...