Geopolitics
Ben Wray – It’s Time to Dismantle the US Sanctions-Industrial Complex
Review of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
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Gig Economy
Ben Wray – Uber Boss Makes Shocking Admission Over ‘Algorithmic Wage Discrimination’
‘Uber’s CEO admitted that the company changes its drivers pay based on their “behavioural patterns”, after years of denials of the controversial policy which has been called “algorithmic wage discrimination”.’ In Novara Media. Read the […]
EU politics
Ben Wray – In Europe, Platform Workers Are Winning Limited Protections
Review of Leïla Chaibi MEP’s new book, ‘Pirate MEP: How I infiltrated the European Machine’, which explains what it’s like to be a left activist in the heart of Brussels and her fight for a […]
Economics
The Left Book Review – The State of Capitalism
We are living in a historical interregnum, as Antonio Gramsci famously described it, where the old order of global capitalism and American global hegemony is dying, but the new cannot be born. That’s the key […]
EU politics
Ben Wray – The raging bull of Spanish nationalism has been restrained, for now
Pedro Sánchez has cobbled together another coalition to stay in power, but he has had to commit to an amnesty for the leaders of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum to achieve it, a move which […]
Economics
Ben Wray – Technofeudalism, by Yanis Varoufakis: Book Review
Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, argues in TechnoFeudalism that capitalism no longer exists, having been destroyed by capital itself. The largest companies now control us through their ownership of our personal data, putting democracy […]
EU politics
Ben Wray: Western imperialism and leftist complacency
The United States remains the most dangerous force on the planet, and that won’t change any time soon. Ben Wray is a journalist based in the Basque Country and co-ordinator of Brave New Europe’s Gig […]
Austerity
Ben Wray – So Far, Britain’s Employers Have Been Winning the Class War Over Inflation
Since inflation started rising, British capitalists have been raking in massive profits while workers have suffered a disastrous wage slump. Yet the Bank of England still wants to boost unemployment in case workers develop their […]
EU politics
Ben Wray – Spain’s left government has done better than most, but it’s still nowhere near enough
Faced with the vicissitudes of neoliberal globalisation, the right-wing’s reactionary narrative may prove to be more potent with voters than the left-wing’s record of modest social justice. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist and co-ordinator […]
EU politics
Ben Wray: Spain heads to a snap General Election with the right-wing ascendant
The Prime Minister responded to disappointing local election results yesterday by calling a snap General Election, the result of which is highly unpredictable Ben Wray is a freelance journalist based in the Basque Country, and […]