The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY
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Women need trade unions to take on the threat of automation
The jobs being hardest hit by automation are in occupations dominated by women, says SHARON GRAHAM
Checkout workers are increasingly being replaced by machines
Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD
KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement
A landmark UN resolution led by Ghana declares the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity — but Western opposition and abstentions reveal enduring resistance to historical accountability, write ISAAC SANEY and JAMES COUNTS EARLY
The new BBC director-general now faces a test of public scrutiny, with his record at McKinsey and lack of newsroom experience under the spotlight, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
THERE are few threats as potentially dangerous for working people as “industry 4.0.”
Research suggests that 35 per cent of all UK jobs could be lost within the next two decades.
But, as well as eliminating entire occupations, automation will also create vast wealth. PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimates that artificial intelligence alone could add £232 billion to the UK economy by 2030.
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