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Ben Wray – Uber Accused of Tax Fraud in Spain in Landmark Legal Case

May 20, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Taxi Project 2.0 has announced a court action today against Uber for tax fraud, in the latest offensive by the Taxi workers’ movement in Spain against the platform giant. The Gig Economy Project reports. Ben Wray […]

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Gig Economy

Ben Wray – Corona Crisis: ‘We have to fight for our lives while we’re still trying to save other people’s lives’: Interview with UK medical courier Alex Marshall

May 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The public should have learnt by now, many of those crucially essential workers who are pulling us through the corona crisis are poorly paid, and treated like rubbish by their employers. It is not applause […]

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EU politics

Ben Wray – French workers 1-0 Amazon: Interview with Stéphane Enjalran on the Covid-19 Court Victory

April 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

French trade unions have won a legal action against Amazon over health & safety at work during Covid-19. Ben Wray spoke to Stéphane Enjalran, National Secretary of the Solidaires trade union, which led the court […]

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Ben Wray – Can the Basque Country Turn the Tide on Uberisation?

April 23, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Momentum was building against ‘fake self-employment’ in the Basque Country before the Pandemic hit. Ben Wray examines whether the Covid-19 crisis will see Uberisation become more entrenched in ‘Euskal Herria’, or lead to strong Basque […]

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National Politics

Ben Wray: Care Homes a Privatisation Story

April 22, 2020 David Shirreff 0

The surprising number of coronavirus deaths in Scottish care homes conceals a greater scandal about the hollowing out of the the UK National Health Service. The 1996 privatisation of care homes was described by Allyson […]

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Finance

Ben Wray – The Gig Economy Couriers: Operating Precariously at the Connection Points of the Covid-19 Economy

April 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

BRAVE NEW EUROPE has always considered the Gig Economy one of the most important economic developments of our time. Unfortunately it is totally ignored in mainstream media and by much of academia. The Lipman-Miliband Trust […]

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Economics

Ben Wray – The Economics of the Pandemic

April 1, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

There will be no socialism borne automatically out of capitalism’s inability to cope with a pandemic. A new world will have to be fought for, tooth and nail. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading […]

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EU politics

Ben Wray – Corona Carnage: How the Crisis has Hit Hospitality Workers in Scotland, and how They’re Fighting Back

March 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

BRAVE NEW EUROPE has always considered the Gig Economy one of the most important economic developments of our time. Unfortunately it is totally ignored in mainstream media and by much of academia. The Lipman-Miliband Trust […]

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Ben Wray – General Strike in the Basque Country

January 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Is the EU Great Discontent spreading into other regions? Ben Wray is a freelance journalist based in Oñati, and produces a morning newsletter called Common A.M., which you can sign up to at CommonSpace.Scot/Newsletter A […]

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Ben Wray – What is the Green New Deal?

December 15, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

cop25 has ended in disaster. Solutions will have to be found somewhere else. Ben Wray assesses the phenomenon of the Green New Deal. where it comes from and what potential it has. Ben Wray is […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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