The Science Museum’s major new Robots exhibition is hailed as the ‘greatest collection of humanoids ever assembled’, but it fails to take up the question everyone is asking: will a robot take my job? Joseph Choonara looks at the reality of automation under capitalism.
With the Tories’ latest anti-union attacks set to become law, Mark L Thomas argues that there are ways to initiate struggle that can help stregthen workplace organisation, and prepare for clashes to come.
In part six of our series on the Wobblies, John Newsinger tells how, at a time when lynchings were common, the IWW fought for unity between black and white workers.
The world was rocked by a monumental event in January. Not the initiation of the most right wing US government in decades, but the inauguration of the resistance to the sexism, racism and homophobia that Trump represents. Around the globe 5 million people marched in 670 towns and cities, including 100,000 in London. The last...
1984 hits top spotGeorge Orwell’s classic book about a dystopian tyranny topped Amazon’s best-sellers chart shortly after members of the Trump administration started saying things like “Alternative facts” and, “Sometimes we disagree with the facts”. A French Corbyn?Across the Channel doom and gloom dominate in the run-up to the election in April as the two...
Students at Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea, have taken control of a campus building for more than 100 days so far against a plan to build a campus extension. The plans are part of a speculative property development project. The students oppose it because the process has been undemocratic and the plans put making...
Anti-fascist campaigner Esther Brunstein died last month. She was a survivor of the Holocaust. She played an active role in the struggle against the far right, speaking at meetings, assemblies, trade unions and workplaces. Esther was born in Lodz, Poland. She starts her chapter in a book of survivor accounts saying she came from “a...
The Assembly election in Northern Ireland on 2 March will take place in the context of the rage over the energy scandal that provoked it and the divisions it has exposed. There is a lot of anger around the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme. The scheme was designed by Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic...
Mental health was the focus of Theresa May’s first major speech on health, given in January. She was strong on rhetoric, expressing her drive to tackle the “burning injustice” of inadequate mental health treatment, while dismissing the call for extra funding. At best the limited measures announced will do no more than sticking a plaster...
The prime minister’s commitment to both nationalism and neoliberalism is the worst of both worlds.
Theresa May is putting the end of free movement of labour at the heart of her plan for Brexit. Carlo Morelli explains why socialists and anti-racists must make defence of EU workers a priority.
Trans people face many barriers to accessing healthcare, from medics’ lack of training to funding cuts. Pat Clinton argues that access is a class issue intertwined with oppression.
