
Tag: amazon


Opinion: For the People and for the Planet – It’s Time to Make Amazon Pay
Casper Gelderblom
In just a few years, Amazon has established itself as a node in the circuitry of globalism capitalism. Today we launch a common movement to pull the plug, writes the Progressive International's Casper Gelderblom.

Analysis: ‘Capitalism’s Wet Dream’: Amazon’s Patents Signal the Future It Hopes to Achieve
Alessandro Delfanti
By filing hundreds of patents a year, Amazon publishes its ideas for new technologies and ways of managing workers. As part of our focus on the future of work, Alessandro Delfanti explores some of the technological futures Amazon has in mind.

Report: Over 50 Offensive Coronavirus-Themed Products Pulled From Amazon
Joe Goodman
Over 50 offensive Coronavirus-themed products were listed on the company’s site before they were removed this week. Joe Goodman reports.

Novara Live: Amazon in Flames
As the Amazon burns, its time to join the dots between right-wing populism and the climate crisis. With Oscar Guardiola Rivera, Professor in law at Birkbeck and author of “What if Latin America Ruled the World?” and Daniel Willis, from Global Justice Now.

Long Read: A Design for Life: How Platforms Are Weaving Their Way Into the Fabric of Capitalism
James Meadway
With platform companies such as Apple and Facebook running up against the limits of their business models, they are turning to new ways to leverage your data for profit. In this week's column, James Meadway examines the measures platforms are taking and asks what it means for the future of capitalism.

Forget Surveillance Capitalism – It’s Time to Build a Digital Commons
Mathew Lawrence
To build a future of shared digital plenty we need to transform and democratise the ownership of data and technological infrastructure, argues Mat Lawrence.

Now is the Time for Worker Power in the Tech Industry
Wendy Liu
Among the upper echelons of the tech industry there is strong hostility to the idea of organised labour. But the tech sector is too important to cede control of it to capital, and lately there have been more and more reasons why tech workers need to build collective power, writes Wendy Liu.