Care homes in the UK, like much of the care sector, are highly financialised - but there are signs the model is faltering. If we’re going to improve care quality as well as wages and conditions in the sector, we need to build both worker and user-led power, argue Annie Quick and Alice Martin.
Coronavirus is killing the high street, further accelerating us into a world of big data and algorithm-mediated shopping. Alan Bradshaw argues the shift could have dangerous political implications, allowing corporations to structure and rationalise our lives in previously unimagined ways.
Supermarket workers hold significant collective power over the economy - a power only compounded by the pandemic. Despite a history of underorganisation, Jessica Thorne and Seth Wheeler argue that mobilising the sector is now a matter of strategic necessity.
After months of anticipation, Democratic nominee Joe Biden has finally announced that his running mate will be junior senator Kamala Harris. Freddie Stuart and Aaron White take a closer look at Harris’ record and what her selection means for the future of a surging progressive movement in the United States.
With Twitter begrudgingly apologising for its slow response to musician Wiley’s antisemitic rant, despite it violating the site's guidelines for hate speech, it comes as no surprise that the posts stayed up for as long as they did, writes Sam Harrison. Twitter is merely following the economic logic of the ‘culture-industrial complex’, which sees media companies profit off of online controversy.
Neoliberal capitalism produces a spirit of vengeance that we see play out culturally, politically and economically - and which most harshly impacts the young and racialised. Revenge shopping is an expression of this vengeance, writes Max Haiven; the same system that causes our sufferings offers us false fantasies and practices of toothless revenge that, ultimately, simply reproduce that very same system.
With nationwide protests showing little sign of relenting, the next major slate of elections will indicate whether mass mobilisations will significantly alter the composition of the Democratic party. Freddie Stuart and Aaron White look at the candidates and races to watch in the second instalment of our series on the US 2020 elections.
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