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Futures & Histories

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Lawfare Against Labour Organising: Quasi-legislation, Surveillance and Espionage

In the second segment of our November 2 publication, Andy Ramsay considers the quasi-legislation, surveillance and espionage that obstructs labour organising in the UK, and surveys steps towards resistance.

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‘Send Lawyers, Guns and Money’: Lawfare Against Labour Organising in the UK since 1970

Since the 1970s, Britain has seen intense social struggles whose outcomes have reverberated around the world. Andy Ramsay surveys the legislative changes that paved the way for the repression experienced by unions and social movements today.

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Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital

Hype is a kind of currency in the tech world, and when so much of the market for innovation depends on speculation, all kinds of monsters appear. Vassilis Galanos theorises this hype as a form of capital.

May Day Special: Tacky’s Revolt – Lessons for Modern Labour from a Slave Uprising

May Day Special: Tacky’s Revolt – Lessons for Modern Labour from a Slave Uprising

In this special piece to celebrate May Day, Christopher D. Reid examines Tacky's Revolt and the complex interactions between slavery, geopolitics, and resistance in the Caribbean of the 18th century. He then discusses how history can inform the actions of contemporary social movements.

Representing Resistance, Organising and Argument: Literature and Worker Activism in Mid-20th Century America

Representing Resistance, Organising and Argument: Literature and Worker Activism in Mid-20th Century America

In this talk delivered as part of the University and College's Union Political Education Programme, Chris Reid discusses a series of radical texts produced by workers in mid-20th century America, and the hopes of overcoming capitalism that they contained.

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Workers and Empire: Learning from Early 20th Century Resistance Politics in Imperial Britain – Part 2

In the second part of Workers and Empire, Christopher Reid surveys the relationships between working class revolts in the centre and the periphery of the British empire, and draws lessons from George Padmore, CLR James, and George Orwell.

Workers and Empire: Learning from Early 20th Century Resistance Politics in Imperial Britain – Part 1

Workers and Empire: Learning from Early 20th Century Resistance Politics in Imperial Britain – Part 1

In the first of two articles on the history of worker activism in the British Empire, Christopher D. Reid examines the resistances in the Welsh coalfields and of women clothworkers in Scotland, and connects them to lessons that can be learnt today.