From Amazon’s monitored warehouse hell to delivery workers being paid per package, exploitative work destroys collaborative relationships young people need — more screen time and 12 new AI ‘friends’ will only make things worse, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Portugal’s Left Bloc: ‘Fighting capitalism is the only way’
In an interview with Carmela Negrete, the Left Bloc’s CATARINA SOARES MARTINS calls for economic policies that improve peopleʼs lives to defeat the extreme right
Catarina Martins and Mariana Mortagua during a demonstration in the campaign for the 2021 local elections
The Tatar rebel argued that Western workers could be bought off, so instead a ‘colonial international’ must form a dictatorship over Europe and the US, ideas that led to his expulsion from the Bolsheviks and eventual execution, writes EDMUND GRIFFITHS
HEATHER WOOD reports back from another packed annual Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, where Palestinian flags flew high and solidarity with Birmingham’s striking refuse workers was central
Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
In Britain we may have election fever but Europe is going to the polls too — with the far right predicted to do well across the continent in elections to the European Parliament from June 6-9.
With our sister papers Junge Welt of Germany and Arbejderen of Denmark, we compiled a series of articles looking at the nature of the far-right threat across different European countries, of which this is the fifth. We would like to thank Junge Welt for organising the series and translation.
Carmela Negrete: After eight years of a left-wing coalition in power, Luis Montenegro and his cabinet took office as Portugalʼs new centre-right government on April 2. However, Montenegroʼs camp fell well short of the required majority of 116 seats. Why were there early elections in the first place?
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