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The unions must respond to the era of app capitalism
Apps like Uber, Bolt, Deliveroo and entities like Amazon are major employers — and a major obstacle to traditional post-1945 trade unionism. We too, must update, writes MARTIN SMITH
Members of GMB rally in Coventry during the first ever strike at Amazon in Britain, January 2023
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In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
The right to buy may have been scrapped in Scotland, but the damage it has done lives on even now, writes MATT KERR
Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism
UNION builders are seeing a huge expansion of platform-style working conditions across the labour market, as capitalism pursues its latest ruse to shift business risks from itself to working people.
But organisers are having notable successes building collective power among the digital disrupters — in strike action at Amazon and agreements over access, neutrality and foundation bargaining within Apple, Evri, Uber, Bolt, Boohoo and Deliveroo.
The employment algorithms shared by platform-working businesses have expanded way beyond their original boundaries and into more traditional job areas in the care, construction, retail and education sectors as software rapidly replaces management and HR.
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