Inside Amazon’s Wildcat Strikes
Amazon, one of the most profitable companies on Earth, can afford more than a pathetic 35p pay rise amid a cost of living catastrophe – and this month, its employees have been taking on the behemoth.
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Jenna Norman
Jenna Norman is a London-based writer and campaigner.
Why London Bus Drivers Have Joined the Strike Wave
London bus drivers were some of the worst hit by the pandemic, and as thanks, many are now being slapped with a real-terms pay cut – so alongside tube and train staff, 1,600 are striking this weekend to demand something better.
A Letter From Kharkiv
Ukraine’s second city, once capital of Soviet Ukraine and a centre of socialist experiment in the 1920s, has been shelled for months. How will it survive the scale of destruction?
We Are the Pigs
The first ever anime feature, now back in cinemas, combines anthropomorphic animals and anti-Western agitation; it was also a work of fascist propaganda.
Sculpture by the Yard
The Manchester-based American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe’s work epitomised a disappeared and increasingly alien world of public provision.
‘Your Move, Creep!’
Paul Verhoeven’s latest film Benedetta, about a nun who enters into a lesbian relationship in her convent while experiencing erotic visions of Jesus, may be disappointing – but at their best Verhoeven’s films do more than just shock.
Brilliant Futures
Thuận’s novel Chinatown moves from Hanoi to Leningrad to Paris, as its Vietnamese migrant narrator charts how the ‘future’ shifted in the 1990s from the East to West.
Shoot it Yourself!
The first publication by the left-wing London archive MayDay Rooms showcases examples from the 1930s and 1970s of conscious workers using photography as a tool for solidarity and political understanding.
Soap and the City
Edwina Attlee’s book ‘Strayed Homes’ praises the in-between spaces of everyday life – the intimate public spaces that can be homes from home.
Art Workers, Unite!
Kuba Szreder’s ‘ABC’ for workers in the arts advocates ways of out of a system designed to benefit not those who make artworks, but a handful of investors and gallerists.
Red Library: Red Ukraine
This issue’s Red Library focuses on the history of Ukraine.
Why We Launched Enough Is Enough
This cost-of-living crisis isn’t inevitable.
Vietnam’s Horror Captured
This June marked the fiftieth anniversary of the famous photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc taken during the Vietnam War – a reminder of the horrors of war, and of all those whose stories will never be told.
The Influencer Hustle
A new book explores the rise of online ‘influencers’, the seductiveness of their get-rich-quick schemes, and their role in shaping activist culture.
In Memory of Mike
Mike Carden, one of the leaders of the 1995 Liverpool Dock Strike and father to MP Dan Carden, passed away late last year. Here, his son John Carden remembers his life in socialism.
Five Years Since the Grenfell Fire
In June 2017, a catastrophic fire in Grenfell Tower killed seventy-two people and should have changed housing standards for good. Instead, the establishment has failed victims — and resisted all efforts at change.
Democracy in Decline
The departure of Boris Johnson as prime minister has been widely celebrated in Labour circles, but the rot at the heart of our political system goes far deeper.
American Hegemony Isn’t Going Away
Pundits are quick to declare the end of the unipolar world, but America’s economic empire is here to stay.
How Liberals Learned to Love NATO
In the wake of the war in Ukraine, NATO has been presented as a defensive alliance for democracy — but its actual history has been the promotion of Western imperial interests, often at the point of a gun.
How Commodity Speculators Drove War in Ukraine
In London and New York, the spectacularly wealthy gamble on the price of commodities — and, in the process, provide petrostate autocrats like Vladimir Putin with the resources to wage war.