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
EURACTIV – LEAKED: Paper on gas and nuclear’s inclusion in EU green finance rules
A proposal to bring both nuclear power and natural gas into the bloc’s green finance taxonomy is circulating in Brussels. The paper has been branded as a “scientific disgrace” by campaigners who warned it would […]
EU politics
Johan Alfonsson – How Sweden’s Social Democrats Abandoned the Working Class
‘The decline of Swedish social democracy is an illuminating case study in why the Left is losing the working class. It also offers clues as to how the Left might win workers back.’ In Jacobin. […]
Economics
Quartz: China keeps using the wrong tools to fix its economic problems
Chinese economists and officials are sounding alarm bells over the state of the country’s stalling economy. Read Here
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