The European Trade Union Confederation #ETUC has published a really useful guide for unions in how to deal with algorithmic management... #unions #surveillance #bossware www.etuc.org/sites/defaul...

My report for the ETUC on how workers can 'negotiate the algorithm' has been published! Algorithmic management is an increasingly normalised part of industrial relations and impinges on fundamental aspects of working conditions, like pay andperformance evaluation 1/2 bsky.app/profile/etuc...

It's easy to miss given the collapse of the US, but this basic data from @adamtooze.bsky.social, on China's solar growth, would on its own signal a change in the global geographies of power.

EU fiscal spending limits are only for nurses and hospitals, not bombs, and only for weak countries like Greece and Portugal, not powerful ones like Germany.

There's a hug dissonance between the gravity of these words and the actions that are being taken to put an end to it. We're debating Israel out of Eurovision, when we should be debating sending warships to Gaza's coast. bsky.app/profile/theg...

Thousands of workers in the US getting fired for their opinions illustrates that the emerging order is a specifically capitalist form of authoritarianism. A system where corporations have more rights than us, including speech rights. That's the future if we fail to rebuild workers' power.

Got a piece in The Ferret about Scotland’s 2 short-term let control areas, in Edinburgh and in Badenoch & Strathspey (Cairngorms). While Edinburgh’s control area has reduced the number of AirBNBs, sadly the same can’t be said for Badenoch & Strathspey 🧵 bsky.app/profile/thef...

This was always the end game of the techno-oligarchy we have sleepwalked into, wasn't it? That those at the top of the system would cash-in politically on the atomisation & division it fosters. Serious anti-racism today = bringing down the tech oligarchs. bsky.app/profile/rewe...

Message from a friend in Gaza who has had to flee their home in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City because Israel has bombed them out, and flee to the south. I know your timeline is only showing stuff about Charlie Kirk, but the genocide goes on - deadlier than ever. #GazaGenocide

In France, the govt has collapsed and the people are revolting! ✊ bsky.app/profile/unic...

Excited to re-launch the Gig Economy Project newsletter, in partnership with the European Trade Union Confederation's Digital Platform Observatory. If you know about what's happening in the gig economy where you are in Europe, you can help us: see details here 👇 eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

Sadly, I think the UN is going to go the way of the League of Nations: fail to deliver on its mission, become irrelevant & end up being replaced. Baerbock as President of the Assembly says it all: its structurally incapable of standing up to the powerful. bsky.app/profile/tilo...

It will go higher. #StateofTheUnion #VonDerLeyen

Got a piece in @scotnational.bsky.social today about an important new study from @ccccjustice.bsky.social on the role of British corporations and the British state in the destruction of West Papua, which is being launched at Westminster this morning. It’s paywalled so a short 🧵with the key points.

Uber Eats saying the quiet bit out loud: exploiting undocumented workers keeps their labour costs down and profits up. Yet the UK Gov insists on treating the delivery giants as allies against riders, rather than the beneficiaries of black market labour. bsky.app/profile/poli...

Sánchez is saying little more than the obvious here, but the fact that he's the first European prime minister to say so is significant. But he should actually do something: send the Spanish Armada to accompany the #SumudFlotilla safely into Gaza's shores! bsky.app/profile/theg...

BBC's China Correspondent: "At [Xi's] feet was a military that is being built to rival the West." A cursory glance at global military spending shows China makes up 12% and NATO 55%. So not a military built to rival the West, then.

Update from contact in Sheikh Radwan, North-West #Gaza: 'The situation is extremely difficult. The explosions from robots & quadcopter drones kept us awake all night - bullets & bombs everywhere. These criminals are using every possible method to force us out of northern Gaza.'

Starmer is so stupid. He's actually feeding the hysteria. It's the complete opposite of what any competent politician would do, which is to change the story. It's like he wants to be booted out of office 🤡

In Avilés, in Asturias, which is trying very hard to show that it's post-industrial...

I'm in touch with someone in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of north-west Gaza, has a caste around her ankle & is currently being bombed by IDF 'quadcopter' drones. I'll never forget or forgive those politicians that sat back and allowed this horror to happen in plain sight.

Imperial master tells subordinate to shut up and let the CIA do it's job. The rest of the European subordinates keep schtum.

Merz has his marching orders. Germany is too busy being a crutch for US imperialism to care about Germans' social security. As the FT argued, the warfare state must replace the welfare state in Europe. When AfD wins the next election, the German establishment will be to blame.

Lieferando (Just Eat) started using sub-contractors in Berlin recently & an investigation has found that many are employed illegally: paid cash-in-hand, paid-per-task, have to pay the sub-contractor to get employment & are forced to be available at all times for work. @lwc-berlin.bsky.social

#GlobalStrikeForGaza tomorrow! 🇵🇸

When rural land is abandoned, vegetation grows & it acts as kindling, spreading fire to trees. In Spain, so many rural areas are abandoned there's a name for it, “la España vaciada”. Stopping wildfires requires active rural land management, which big business isn't interested in.

I've lived in Spain 6 years & this is by far the worst heatwave I've seen. I'm in the north which should be cooler but we've already had 2 days over 40C this week & 2 more to come. The country is covered in flames & its obvious neither govt nor the people are prepared for this. #heatwave #oladecalor

Looks like the US 'Chip War' on China is over. The importance of this to US' bid to slow-down China's tech progress can't be underestimated. It was the centre-piece of the broader trade war. But China found loopholes, & developed its own advanced chip capacity, so the US has thrown in the towel.

The more you think about it, this inequality-fuelled racial-paranoia is a sign of a deeply sick society: the rich are even scared of the people who are serving them food. Neoliberal dystopia. bsky.app/profile/benw...

Food delivery riders are now at the forefront of anti-migrant criminalization, to the point that a gated community has placed a blanket ban on riders entering its premises in case they are undocumented. Toxic combination of racialised inequality & an absence of workers' rights.

"The rationale behind ever-closer union within the bloc was that an EU armed with its own currency would be able to match the US, not just in terms of economic prowess but in geopolitical influence as well...Things haven't quite gone to plan." Good piece by Larry Elliot on the EU's Suez moment.

The EU's 'Re-Arm Europe' pitch is not popular. A new EU-wide poll finds Defence is only the 7th most popular choice for public investment, with health & education way out on top, and environmental protection & climate action second. Elite opinion doesn't equal public opinion.

My partner Miren has just published a book - very proud! If you are interested in minority language media get a copy! #minoritylanguagemedia

'Almost exactly a year since the riots that saw lynch mobs attempting to set fire to hotels accommodating migrants & refugees, the UK govt has decided to set loose another lawless mob onto blameless asylum seekers: food-delivery platforms.' My latest for Jacobin 👇 bsky.app/profile/jaco...

This horror won't end with the Palestinians. 'If you tolerate this, then your children will be next'

Very grim that gamification - widely used for years by digital labour platforms like Uber to get workers to work longer & faster - has made it's way into warfare. From the platform economy to the war economy, heinous algorithmic management practices should be stopped.

A new left party could be an exciting development in Scotland, where fresh impetus is clearly needed. Jotted some early thoughts for how to make the project a success north of the border on @conterscot.bsky.social. www.conter.scot/2025/7/16/th...

"The Left wants to align actual birth rates with desired reproduction. We aim to bridge the gap between people’s life goals and their outcomes, expanding their sense of agency in their own lives." 👌 bsky.app/profile/jaco...

We don't need to imagine hypotheticals for how AI can be dangerous - the actually existing AI industry is already causing grave damage to people and planet. But it could be so different. Review of 'Empire of AI' 👇 bsky.app/profile/jaco...

My review of @karenhao.bsky.social's great new book on the AI industry, 'Empire of AI', in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social. "Loosening the grip of the US corporate–state nexus over AI should be a key priority for all those interested in a world of peace and social justice." jacobin.com/2025/07/altm...

My review of @karenhao.bsky.social's great new book on the AI industry, 'Empire of AI', in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social. "Loosening the grip of the US corporate–state nexus over AI should be a key priority for all those interested in a world of peace and social justice." jacobin.com/2025/07/altm...

Food delivery platform Glovo has suspended bonuses during heatwaves in Italy after a media outcry. But it's not stopped deliveries during heatwaves. Neither has it provided riders who can't work during heatwaves financial support. Riders can't rely on media scandals - they need rights.

Piece for Jacobin on the turn to militarism in Europe, which is not only about the Trump factor 👇 bsky.app/profile/jaco...

Piece for Jacobin on the turn to militarism in Europe, which is not only about the Trump factor 👇 bsky.app/profile/jaco...

The Trump factor can blind us to the forces in Europe which are hell-bent on militarisation. Burdened no longer by concern for international law & convinced that arms can revive industry, EU leaders have embraced war - & we'll all suffer because of it. In @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social (link below).

The geopolitics of the green transition in two NYT graphs: China is the world's major manufacturer of green energy infrastructure and the United States is the world's major fossil fuels producer. But apparently it's China that presents the big risk to our future!

Grande victoire pour les travailleurs de plateforme en Espagne !🥳🔥 Glovo cesse d'utiliser de faux livreurs indépendants. Des milliers de travailleurs enfin reconnus comme salariés ! La fin de l'impunité pour cette entreprise et son modèle frauduleux d'ubérisation. Prochain sur la liste : Uber

A historic day in the battle against bogus self-employment in the platform economy: Glovo, Spain's largest food delivery platform, finally stops using bogus self-employed riders, after a 4-year battle with the govt and hundreds of millions in fines. 🧵

#UN Aid Summit in #Seville reminds me it's 20 years since I attended my first demo, the Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh. It's amazing how the sustainable development agenda fell-off post-2008. The West became too busy with austerity and war to care about global poverty.

Well done to the #Glastonbury yoof for showing a bit of rebellious spirit. A #FreePalestine is the moral cause of our time.