Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The right to strike is in danger at the US Supreme Court
A company claiming cement that hardened in its trucks during a work stoppage means it can now sue the union that represented the strikers for damages is threatening the very foundation of US workers’ rights, reports MARK GRUENBERG
Nurses shout slogans and hold signs during a nursing strike outside Mount Sinai Hospital on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, in New York
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
KEITH FLETT highlights the inimical role of the strategist who helped shape Tony Blair’s ascent and whose political blueprint continues to echo in the era of Keir Starmer
70 years on from Khruschev’s closed-door address to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s 20th Congress, Kenny Coyle talks to academic and writer RICHARD SAKWA about the significance of this political bombshell, in which Stalin’s ‘cult of personality,’ abuse of power and mass repressions were denounced
Small Prophets finds Mackenzie Crook conjuring tiny prophetic beings from working-class malaise, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
IN a complex case from Washington state, the right-wing dominated US Supreme Court tackled the right to strike and whether corporate lawsuits can stop it.
“The right to strike is on trial today at the US Supreme Court,” AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler warned in a January 10 tweet about the case, Glacier Northwest, Inc v Teamsters Local 174.
“For nearly a century, federal law has protected workers’ right to strike to improve their wages, hours and working conditions.”
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