Speakers in Berlin traced how Germany’s rearmament, US-led violence abroad and the repression of solidarity at home are converging in a dangerous drive toward war. BEN CHACKO reports
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The marketing of experience and the consumerism of culture
Why we are allowing ourselves to be transformed into guinea pigs of capitalism, asks JULIAN VIGO
A protest against AirBNB in Edinburgh. The firm is marketing 'experiences' to its customers
Ahead of an important CND webinar, ULRIKE EIFLER argues that militarisation is not only draining social budgets — it is reshaping everyday life, preparing society for war and demanding a socialist response rooted in the labour movement
ALEX GORDON outlines the real battle for workers in Britain and Europe, to break the state capture by arms firms and the new finance-technology capitalists
As Holyrood sets the Budget, the gulf between rich and poor is wider than ever. PETER OLECH of Unite Community Scotland argues that only by taxing extreme wealth can we properly fund public services and deliver justice for working-class communities
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has little to do with self-determination and far more to do with strategy, offering Israel a potential military foothold near Yemen, says JE ROSENBERG
Statement of the Tudeh Party of Iran
AIRBNB sent me an email the other week with the subject line: “Experiences you don’t want to miss this week in London.”
It is one of many such emails from Airbnb which has expanded over the past year from the business of people renting out their homes as holiday spaces to the wholesale marketing and selling of experience. Yes, you read correctly, now you can pay Airbnb to live life. How novel!
The old expression,“I have a bridge to sell you” is actually a reference to George C Parker in addition to many other conmen from the bridge’s completion in 1883, such as Reed C Waddell, William McCloundy and the Gondorf brothers, Charles and Fred.
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