CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to CHRIS SMALLS, who helped set up the Amazon Labor Union, on how weak leadership debilitates union activism and dilutes their purpose
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RAE STORY imagines a dystopian future where feminists have given up and the prostitution profiteers run riot
After 58 fishermen were lost in the so-called ‘Triple Trawler Tragedy,’ four women led a grassroots revolt that forced the government to overhaul Britain’s deadly deep-sea fishing industry. MAT COWARD tells the story
The president is steering Argentina toward ever-deeper dependence on US capital, while slashing budgets at home – with calamitous results for the environment and the economy. BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
Ministers say scrapping Ofwat will toughen oversight of scandal-hit water firms. But merging environmental and economic regulation and openly courting private investors suggest the failures of privatisation are set to continue. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
The Starmer-linked group’s hiring of a lobbying firm to peddle a bogus ‘Russian hack’ smear against journalists has erupted into scandal — but outrage has surfaced only because the target was the mainstream press, says SOLOMON HUGHES
John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace – reshaping US politics and inspiring movements worldwide
THE year is 2032. Britain is a vastly different place. You can now choose from 12, instead of four, sizes of recyclable mug at your local coffee house — which, helpfully, also now tend to function as arms of the county council, after cutbacks.
White bread carries a public health warning, and it has become commonplace to chew coagulated “locally reared” pig’s blood, due to its “antiageing properties.”
The Conservatives are still in power, having rejigged constituency boundaries so they now only need about three votes to gain seven MPs, and all the other political parties have since lost the will, leaving the Stark Raving Loonies as his majesty’s official opposition.
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