Workers at Amazon warehouses and distrbution centres have staged protests – over low pay, poor working conditions and climate concerns – across Europe and the USA to coincide with the online retailer’s annual discounted shopping day, Black Friday. Protests have continued to cover Cyber Monday, another crucial sales period for Amazon.
Climate Crisis
Nasdaq: France braces for uncertain winter as nuclear power shortage looms
France, once Europe’s top power exporter, may not produce enough nuclear energy this winter to help European neighbours seeking alternatives to Russian gas, and may even have to ration electricity to meet its own needs. […]
Economics
Fadhel Kaboub – The “Macron plan”: «To relaunch the French economy and further exploit its former colonies».
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EU politics
Lorenzo Marsili and Ken Loach: ‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’
Filmmaker Ken Loach on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond. Read here
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