Dario Salvetti, from the GKN factory occupation in Florence is visiting London on Monday 2nd. He will be talking to MPs & Lords in Parliament about worker led #justtransition to a non-carbon economy b4 speaking at a public event organised by RMT in Kings Cross 6:30pm. #insorgiamo

Please donate if you can to help the Indonesian Serikat Buruh Progresif Sejahtera/Workers Unions for Prosperity and Progress (SBPS) build the Sanggar Budaya Merdeka/Freedom Cultural Workshop (SBM), an anti-authoritarian and autonomous cultural space: firefund.net/sbps

"It was another win for a well-organized lobbying campaign led by manufacturers of dark roofing materials." Jesus Christ theguardian.com/environment/20…

"In the entertainment industry, he says, people are using “AI algorithms to determine what projects get the go-ahead, and that means we’re stuck remaking the past. The algorithms say ‘More of the same’, because it’s all they can do." Me in a strong piece on artists pushing back

“We prepare for war in order to secure the peace,” Starmer told his press-ganged audience in Glasgow: the biggest lie of all. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, preparing for war has led to war. As it will today and tomorrow. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starme…

#OtD 3 Jun 1924 Jewish socialist Czech author Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis in Austria. Connected with left libertarian circles in Prague, The Trial, his most famous work, is a masterful condemnation of state bureaucracy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10196/…

🫖☕️Fancy a brew? @fairtradeuk has launched a campaign calling on the UK’s tea drinkers, businesses and government to take action to ensure fair pay, decent working conditions and job security for producers #coops #Fairtrade 👇 thenews.coop/fairtrade-foun…

What? MI5 lied in court? Golly gosh, who'd have thought it? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The sweeping shift in India’s trade policy with #Bangladesh has sparked a growing economic crisis in West Bengal, where the state’s border districts have become the ground zero of a logistical and livelihood collapse.  m.thewire.in/article/trade/…

In this Thursday’s newsletter: reports from the #FirstCrusade brought tales of victorious Christian soldiers eating dead bodies. 📬 Sign up for Miscellanies at buff.ly/T3J6mYn and we’ll send it to your inbox.

This week, governments, unions, and employers meet in Geneva with a chance to rein in the data-driven exploitation of platform workers: the people driving us, delivering to us, and caring for our loved ones. #ILC2025 🧵

It's #WorldBicycleDay 🚵 Bicycles were fundamental in the development of landscape archaeology When landscape-archaeology pioneer Cyril Fox was producing his milestone publication 'The archaeology of the Cambridge region' in AD 1923, he used his bike to reach all the sites 1/2

‘Freelance and Forgotten: a report on worker exploitation in Scotland’s creative industries’, launched today by Scottish Trades Union Congress, outlines the scale of abuse suffered by Scotland’s freelance workers in the arts sector. stuc.org.uk/news/news/free…

In this first contribution to the new project Heatwave, we respond to that collective’s questions about the global impacts of the American tariffs, and talk about umbrellas

Lessons from the History of May Day eastbaysyndicalists.org/lessons-from-t…

What a 120-year-old research station is telling us about the warming of the sea around Britain - Long-term monitoring gives an in-depth picture of marine heatwaves around our coastline, writes TIM SMYTH morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-1…

The UK's largest nuclear site could continue leaking radioactive water until the 2050s, MPs have warned, while its clean-up operations struggle to progress quickly enough. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…