Reposted by M Martínez LucioM Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This may be of interest. Some of us have delved into the need for trade unions to engage with cooperatives more systematically. More dialogue is needed. ‘Co-operatives and Trade Unions Generating alliances for better and more meaningful work’ pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... 053
Reposted by M Martínez LucioPatrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...blogs.lse.ac.ukLGBTQ+ inclusion can boost corporate sustainability - LSE Business ReviewDiversity and inclusion encourage innovation. And innovative workplaces are more likely to generate the innovations that support environmental performance. 071
Reposted by M Martínez LucioWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20/12/2025#OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a five-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9258... 27961417
Reposted by M Martínez LucioProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2025🌊 Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comPlanet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns 2208
Reposted by M Martínez LucioBig Issue @bigissue.com · 05/10/2025The number of people providing full-time unpaid care has increased massively, as the social care system approaches breaking point.bigissue.comNumber of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70% 32612
Reposted by M Martínez LucioZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/10/2025I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk 14938101215
Reposted by M Martínez LucioZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/10/2025In case you missed it - here's this weeks episode of @boldpolitics.bsky.social with Gary Stevenson. 100k views and growing! youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...youtu.beHow Labour Sold Their Souls To Billionaires | Gary Stevenson | Zack PolanskiYouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 820769
Reposted by M Martínez LucioSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2025What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too. 272760747
Reposted by M Martínez LucioPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Actor & campaigner Hugh Grant tells ITV News why he feels Labour has ‘betrayed’ hacking victims. He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change. 44807269
Reposted by M Martínez LucioPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/09/2025BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comStarmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviewsExclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion 3611185
Reposted by M Martínez LucioTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet. 132356628
Reposted by M Martínez LucioMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22/09/2025Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.theguardian.comFarage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportationReform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services 1413012896
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Let me get this right. Gaza is to be a new Las Vegas and the Palestinian West Bank is to continue being fragmented into micro portions. In this dreadful context and late stage the heroic British ‘Empire’ recognises the Palestinian state. Well you have to keep up traditions in empires, heaven forbid 000
Reposted by M Martínez LucioAndrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Kudos, indeed, to Spain and PM Sanchez for breaking the taboo in Europe. At the same time it is worth noting that, from a global perspective, Europe/OECD lags well behind world opinion on Palestine. (Source: @theguardian.com ) 192
Reposted by M Martínez LucioAndy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Britain needs affordable housing in the right places not a free hand for developers to build what they like, where they like, regardless of environmental consequences. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMinisters tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications throughExclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent approvals for housebuilding 108621
Reposted by M Martínez LucioSéan F Scullion @seanfscullion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The result of #ChurchillsSpaniards is both a military and human history: one that illuminates the personal sacrifices of men who fought for a country not their own, in pursuit of a cause larger than national boundaries. Paperback 👇🏽 www.helion.co.uk/military-his... 0206
Reposted by M Martínez LucioFilipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The sight of opposition politicians being arrested has become quite common in the US. 34216
Reposted by M Martínez LucioLabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 19/09/2025UK: No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks www.fbu.org.uk/magazine/aug...fbu.org.ukNo LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacksThe FBU’s LGBT+ section stands in full solidarity with our trans and non-binary siblings, writes interim LGBT+ national sectional secretary Maria Buck 082
Reposted by M Martínez LucioCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇 4444193
Reposted by M Martínez LucioJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Shouldn't need saying - but sadly it does 418145
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 07/09/2025There has always been ambivalence with the English 🏴 flag. Its status is not clear or important as England is invisible in the British state. There are moments (football events) where it plays some ‘unifying role’ but its use by the far right ironically undermines it & debates on English politics. 020
Reposted by M Martínez LucioSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream" Well said 441699492
Reposted by M Martínez LucioCambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Whether it's Brexit red lines, immigration, or EDI (this isn’t the US ffs) Blue Labour really are on a mission to alienate most of their electorate, and to thrash the UK economy in the process. Why is Starmer listening to these fools? 3227
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The contribution of overseas students to the economy as students & when allowed to work has been substantial. The manner in which they are shortchanged by the UK that has benefitted from migrant labour & labour in its former colonies is unreal. Labour especially really should be ashamed of itself. 020
Reposted by M Martínez LucioGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/09/2025New jobs here! I'm on the Advisory Board of this Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigating 'The long-term impact of New Labour’s social and economic policies', and there are two Research Fellowship posts available: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...jobs.nottingham.ac.ukJob Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Multiple positions, fixed term)We are now recruiting 2 full time Research Fellows to work with Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Warwick (Emily Gray) and Queen Mary College, University of London (Maria Grasso) on their research int... 02926
Reposted by M Martínez LucioTrades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 01/09/2025This is what you're supposed to do. 1326071
Reposted by M Martínez LucioJörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Voices from the European Parliament: "...this agreement is not an opening; it is a surrender. It sells off our agriculture, weakens our environmental standards, and locks us into massive dependence on the United States.".... 2138
Reposted by M Martínez LucioZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with. 992117648
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 29/08/2025A very good piece on changes in industrial conflict in terms of form and content which mentions the research of two very close and innovative colleagues morningstaronline.co.uk/article/afte...morningstaronline.co.ukAfter the strike wave, it’s time for solidarity actionOVER the last year, we have seen a general decline in the large national strike action taken by trade unions. We are very far away from the huge national action across sectors we experienced during th... 010
Reposted by M Martínez LucioPaul Garrard @paulgarrard.bsky.social · 24/08/2025There was an opinion poll the other day suggesting the left wing parties (the greens and 'your party') were very popular and gaining ground. Expect the volume to be turned up by the media on anti immigrant rhetoric every time this happens. They fear wealth taxes. They fear wealth redistribution. 13811
Reposted by M Martínez LucioHeidi Shierholz @hshierholz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Unions do more than just improve wages and benefits. They build stronger communities and strengthen democracy. A new report from @epi.org shows that where unions thrive, communities thrive. Imagine what we could achieve if more people had a voice at work. www.epi.org/publication/...epi.orgNew report details the benefits of unions to workers, communities, and democracyA new Economic Policy Institute report documents the strong correlation between higher levels of unionization and a range of economic, personal, and democratic well-being measures. In the same way uni... 8328114
Reposted by M Martínez LucioAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2025This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.comFamily in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughtersExclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park 1242205841
Reposted by M Martínez LucioDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 20/08/2025The Ukraine peace deal seems to be that Russia gets Donetsk and Luhansk, which keeps Putin happy. Then Ukraine is forced to buy $100bn-worth of US weaponry, paid for by Europe, which keeps Trump and the arms trade happy. What a stitch-up. 58828
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Thatcher and sons … The jobs never done … There’s nothing ever new (Words mixed but care if Cat Stevens and Simon Jenkins) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comEngland to sell eight times more council homes than it built last year, report findsDepletion of social housing stock spurs calls for councils to have first refusal to buy ex-council homes entering market 010
Reposted by M Martínez LucioSemra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025🚨NEW STUDY: Do Americans support a woman president? Our list experiment during the 2024 election, when @kamalaharris.com was on the ballot, reveals hidden bias, and it's more widespread than you'd expect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comDo Voters Support a Female President? Evidence from a List Experiment - Semra Sevi, Can Mekik, 2025Public opinion polls indicate that a significant portion of the American public would be willing to vote for a qualified female presidential candidate. However,... 89135
Reposted by M Martínez LucioRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2025The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics. 415145785173
Reposted by M Martínez LucioGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Shall we sort our university system out so it doesn't eat itself? No! Let's organise a bankruptcy process instead! Britain: the country that prepares for failure. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...thetimes.comClearing system to rescue students whose universities go bustRisk of collapse shouldn’t stop students graduating, the skills minister says 02011
Reposted by M Martínez LucioWork and Equalities Institute @workequalities.bsky.social · 15/08/2025📢New article! WEI members Eva Herman, Jill Rubery, Isabel Tavora and Alejandro Castillo along with colleague Abbie Winton (University of Leeds) have published a new article in the International Labour Review! Have a read of the article here 👉 en.ilr-rit.org/article/pubi...en.ilr-rit.orgBargaining on the front line: What role did collective bargaining play in protecting/advancing the interests of front-line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic?Drawing on 12 case studies across 10 countries of how trade unions and collective bargaining institutions supported front-line workers in healthcare, social care and food retail, this article finds th... 012
Reposted by M Martínez LucioBarry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Another chilling example of how “free markets” are often anything but free for those whose labour makes those markets function. jacobin.com/2025/08/corp...jacobin.comCorporations Want to Prevent Workers From Leaving Their JobsAs regulators crack down on noncompete agreements that bar workers from finding better jobs, employees across the country are increasingly bound by a new form of “stay-or-pay” contract that indebts th... 042
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I often think Oasis (who I kind of like) are a sort of tribute band of themselves & Manchester scene. The words of the late academic Mark Fisher were damning - a kind of retro re whitening re masculinising of British popular music like BritPop that marginalised alternative UK currents in the 1990s. 110
Reposted by M Martínez LucioByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025🔴 Starmer & The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power & the Press in Britain The PM has signalled the direction of his Government by hiring a former Sun Editor – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor, writes Emma ...bylinetimes.comStarmer and The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power and the Press in BritainKeir Starmer has signalled the direction of his Government by appointing a former Editor of The Sun newspaper – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications adviso... 1013765
Reposted by M Martínez LucioSam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I wonder if a better tactic to protect the conditions of “working people” (a term used here in a way that barely even pretends not to be a synonym for “white”) from precarious labour might be to use the state to force said companies to treat all their workers better. 4466
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Every day one sees a governing party that has lost its way and is now in panic mode being guided by the language of the far right. This strategy is out of sync with much of what has been argued before. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comUK may scrap pledge to spend 80% of foreign aid on gender equality projectsExclusive: Critics warn move could worsen impact of Donald Trump’s rollback of funding for diversity and aid projects abroad 000
Reposted by M Martínez LucioMihkel Kraav @suijure.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Any mediocre relative indicators immediately become more beautiful in absolute numbers when the country is large. And there are many scales to choose from. Does that make a country "great"? Is this a normal question at all, or does the question itself already have a slight psychopathic connotation? 101
Reposted by M Martínez LucioCambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Nigel Farage is arguably more to blame than any individual for creating the UK's "small boat crisis". Yet due to the unwillingness of the Labour govt and Tory opposition to say anything negative about Brexit, Farage not only gets away with it but can weaponise it. nation.cymru/opinion/why-...nation.cymruWhy Nigel Farage is to blame for the small boats migrant crisisMartin Shipton You wouldn’t know it from the way he is weaponising the issue for his own political ends, but if there’s one person more responsible for the “small boats” migration crisis than anyone e... 37031
Reposted by M Martínez LucioSteve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Trump planning the next financial crash... 121
Reposted by M Martínez LucioM Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 10/08/2025The Russell Group universities will on the whole take whatever they like from non RG universities and pass the problem onto the sector as a whole. The absence of coordination within UK HE, the absence of supportive coherent state policy & a manic short termism is getting worse. 002