Wednesday, 14 June 2023

Organizing Amazon and the platform economy (trans)nationally

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In this guest post Sarrah Kassem outlines key arguments of her recent book Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Powe...
Sunday, 26 March 2023

Conceptualising struggles over water grabbing!

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Capital has identified water as an important opportunity for profitable investment. Whether it is the privatisation of public water infrastr...
Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Fighting today’s battles with yesterday’s strategies? On the romanticism of the picket line!

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Since 2018, UCU has been in almost permanent industrial action over cuts to pensions, pay and working conditions including more than 60 days...
Thursday, 5 January 2023

Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis - new book review

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Just over four years ago, Adam D. Morton and I published our book Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (CUP, 2018). In this book, ...
Friday, 16 December 2022

COP 27 – Surviving the Apocalypse: From ‘me’ to ‘we’.

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Ultimately, it comes down to political will, when confronting the climate crisis. Instead of indulging in Elon Musk’s fantasies about life o...
Monday, 12 December 2022

COP 27 – Greening Everything: Putting back more than we take out.

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If we want to confront the climate crisis successfully, greening everything and here especially our cities is key, argued Alan Simpson in th...
Thursday, 8 December 2022

Watch out Benjamin Zephaniah! International Relations Theory poetry.

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With a view to engaging students through different teaching methods, Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton launched a poetry competition in...