Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
What the future of work might look like
With global corporations like Amazon and Uber driving AI advances and the increase in surveillance during the Covid crisis, now is the time to get clued up on how technological advance can be made to work for the workers, says ANDY BAIN
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
AS PART of its series of centenary events, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) is hosting a Future of Work conference with a great line-up of speakers.
Developments in robotics and AI have recently been sped up by some big businesses to capitalise on the pandemic crisis, as capital usually does.
Unless controlled, these new technologies will add to the unemployment and underemployment numbers, which were growing pre-Covid and will massively escalate due to the British government’s managing of the crisis.
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