Why Don’t Tech Workers Put a Stop to Tech Oligarchy?
Heb Braggs calls for tech workers to both organise and decenter themselves to resist the technological totalitarianism that oligarchs are trying to bring about.
Futures & Histories
May Day Special: The American Revolution – Race, Rebellion, and a New Imperial Nation
On the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Christopher Reid writes its history from below and centres the standpoints of the Black Americans and indigenous peoples that influenced its development.
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.
‘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.
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
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
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.