Despite the recent war on wokeness, woke capitalism is still with us and it is asking us to remain alert ā to…
Many, if not most, universities have become managed, neo-liberalized, managerialized, and very toxic places. Since the advent of neoliberalism ā when Thatcher…
The on-going Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped trade unions, it has not stopped workers from organizing, and it has not stopped protest…
Perhaps another potential title for this article might that be of Journalism āasā Propaganda
Perhaps the writer of these lines is not too far off from having a first-hand experience of the idea of Academentia…
The Internet provides another option for capitalismās hallucination of endless growth
One of the reasons for the decline of trade unions in the USA is the fact that the gap between wages of unionized workers and non-unionized workers is getting smaller
Conspiracy fantasies are predictable threats to a civilised discourse and to a democratic order
In January 2022, the East-Germany city of Leipzig started to host an exhibition about the siblings of one of Germanyās greatest anti-war activists, working class speaker, theoretician of mass strike, and a struggling working class: Rosa Luxemburg
Public health is no longer measured on public health needs. Now they are based on abstract formulas about hospital bed and ICU occupancy
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