Finance
Ben Wray: Building Solidarity in Europe’s Gig Economy
Food-delivery bike riders in London, Berlin, and Copenhagen are pushing back against their algorithmic bosses. Read HERE
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Solutions
Ben Wray – Population Decline Will Transform Our Social World
Population decline is already a reality for many European countries and is looming for the rest of them. This is a seismic change in the nature of our society and the economy and the left […]
Climate Crisis
Ben Wray – China and the geopolitics of the green transition
The West is happy to sacrifice speed in its own green transitions to prevent China from controlling it’s shape. In ‘The Transnational Institute’. Read the full article HERE.
EU politics
Ben Wray – Faced with American aggression, Europe is like a rabbit in the headlights
European elites – brought up to believe the transatlantic relationship was all that mattered – are completely unprepared for American aggression towards Europe. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist and researcher based in the Basque […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]