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Friends of the Earth Europe: New Energy Charter Treaty “is a disaster”

June 24, 2022 Ben 0

The EU has agreed a re-packaged Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), but it still locks Europe into fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. Cross-posted from Friends of the Earth Europe The EU’s deal on the ECT […]

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Climate Crisis

Claire Pierson – Roe V Wade overturned: what abortion access and reproductive rights look like around the world

June 24, 2022 Ben 0

The US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade has sent shockwaves. Claire Pierson, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool, says progress on abortion rights around the world “has been cyclical, […]

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The Gig Economy Project – UK Uber drivers join train colleagues in striking for higher pay

June 21, 2022 Ben 0

James Farrar, ADCU General Secretary, tells the Gig Economy Project that Uber has “burned their drivers” by leaving them “exposed to inflation” The Gig Economy Project, led by Ben Wray, was initiated by BRAVE NEW […]

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Piero Valmassoi: European Parliament S&D group meeting hears support for broadening platform work directive to include all workers managed by algorithms

June 21, 2022 Ben 0

Piero Valmassoi, an EU policy expert specialised in the platform economy, gig work and sustainable urban mobility, reports for the Gig Economy Project on an event organised by the Socialists & Democrats group in the […]

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EU-Institutions

Enough complicity with Israel: The Parliament of Catalonia declares that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people

June 17, 2022 Ben 0

The Catalan organisation ‘Enough complicity with Israel’ (Prou Complicit Amb Israel) posted this press release following the vote of the Catalan Parliament to denounce Israel as an Apartheid state on Thursday [16 June], the first […]

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Climate Crisis

Climate Action Network – EU hypocrisy as a ‘climate champion’ exposed at Bonn climate conference

June 16, 2022 Ben 0

Climate Action Network International reports from the Bonn UN Climate Conference, where western leaders are supposed to be making good on their promise at COP26 to address the issue of compensation for global south countries […]

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Green New Deal

Chris Saltmarsh – Green New Deal: a source of strategic unity in the capitalism-growth debate?

June 16, 2022 Ben 0

Chris Saltmarsh, co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal and post-graduate student in Politics at the University of Sheffield, analyses the various ideological conceptualisations of the Green New Deal. This article is cross-posted from […]

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Gig Economy

The Gig Economy Project – ‘Swipe to Finish’: My experience of being a self-employed delivery driver for Amazon

June 14, 2022 Ben 0

Swipe to Finish: How Amazon exploits its drivers to subsidise your deliveries, by ‘White Van Man’, is a memoir about the experience of being a self-employed delivery driver for Amazon in the UK. The book […]

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Gig Economy

Gig Economy Project – Work and resistance in Germany’s platform economy: Interview with Oğuz Alyanak

June 12, 2022 Ben 0

What’s distinctive about Germany’s platform economy? How are platform workers in the country organising themselves to fight for better working conditions? The Gig Economy Project spoke to Oğuz Alyanak, Fair Work researcher in Berlin, to […]

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Gig Economy Project – Inside Berlin’s food delivery workers movement

June 9, 2022 Ben 0

Ben Wray, the Gig Economy Project’s co-ordinator, recently travelled to Berlin to find out about the vibrant grassroots movement of gig workers in the city, organised via worker collectives. Here’s what he found. The Gig […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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