Olympic gentrification in Brazil The gentrification around the South African world cup of 2010, the 2012 London Olympics, and the slavery and human trafficking associated with…
World Cup Qatar: festivities built on slavery My latest piece I wrote for Freedom magazine, published in the October issue. On migrant workers' conditions in Qatar, where the World Cup of…
The ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell A Marxist critique of society dressed up as a novel, Ragged Trousered Philanthrophists follows…
Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets - the fight continues The 40th anniversary of the 1972 builder's strike has been marked with a conference held at the…
Construction workers clash with police on Melbourne picket line Police have clashed with striking construction workers in Melbourne. The strikers have been…
Australian construction workers in ‘watershed’ victory against the bosses Despite employers taking court action and using the police to get scabs through picket lines,…
Court injunction issued in an attempt to break Canadian wildcat strike Supreme court in Newfoundland issues injunction against construction workers in order to break an…
India: workplace resistance increases The labour movement in India is still under the control of bureaucratic leaders and political groups. However, as shown by a strike last year,…
The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw Greenwich council's latest plans for the riverside from West Greenwich (by the Millenium dome) to Woolwich were published in February. It is no…
Attack on electricians' contracts wobbles as Balfour Beatty folds Sparks are celebrating a major breakthrough in their battle to stop a co-ordinated attempt by some…
Tribunal: Agency worker's blacklisting is legal Despite rhetoric that the new EU agency worker regulations will 'stifle business' and 'cost jobs', the extent to which the British government…
The housing monster - prole.info A beautifully illustrated book by prole.info which takes one seemingly simple thing - a house - and examines the social relations around it. From…
