Questions mount over Deliveroo s £8bn London listing after Uber court ruling
It comes after a judge found at Uber s drivers are not independent third-party contractors and should receive basic employment protection
3 March 2021 • 6:00am
A takeaway food courier working for Deliveroo stops in London s Chinatown district in September 2020
Credit: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
On a remote country lane, car headlights are reflected off an unusual sight for the rural south west: the fluorescent silver jacket of a Deliveroo rider pedalling through the dark.
The town of Dorchester is roughly 120 miles away from Deliveroo s London HQ, where the company first started trying to re-define takeaway as all restaurant food, beyond the staples of just pizza and Chinese.
World working class
Sunday 31 January 2021, by Kim Moody
The working class of the twenty-first century is a class in formation, as one would expect in a world where capitalism has only recently become universal. At the same time, Marx himself reminded us long ago, in speaking of the development of classes in England where they were “most classically developed,” that “even here, though, this class articulation does not emerge in pure form.” [1]
The working class, of course, is much broader than those who are employed at any one time. Relying only on workforce figures obscures important aspects of the broader working-class life, including its reproduction. Nevertheless, those in and out of employment form the core of the working class, once seen as a male domain but today nearly half composed of women. Furthermore, both space and research limitations dictate that this article will focus on the employed and near-employed sections of this global class. With these caveats in
Workers of the World: Growth, Change, and Rebellion
The working class of the twenty-first century is a class in formation, as one would expect in a world where capitalism has only recently become universal. At the same time, Marx himself reminded us long ago, in speaking of the development of classes in England where they were “most classically developed,” that “even here, though, this class articulation does not emerge in pure form.”
1 The working
class, of course, is much broader than those who are employed at any one time. Relying only on workforce figures obscures important aspects of the broader working-class life, including its reproduction. Nevertheless, those in and out of employment form the core of the working class, once seen as a male domain but today nearly half composed of women. Furthermore, both space and research limitations dictate that this article will focus on the employed and near-employed sections of this global class. With these caveats in mind, we
The Social Dilemma.
Here are three observations about culture and politics as viewed through the prism of the last days of the Trump administration and the first days of the Biden one.
OBSERVATION #1: The Influencer Economy Has Produced a Base of Reaction
“Everyone is making media at all times,” CNN reporter Elle Reeve reported of January 6 capital siege. “It’s crazy. It’s like, ‘Were you there if you didn’t livestream it?’ And they’re all hoping for that viral moment that will give them more clout on social media.”
The commitment to posting even though this particular “viral moment” would ultimately provide authorities ways to track down the rioters shows the degree to which politics has been recoded, in the Trump Galaxy Brain, as some kind of media project. “Politics is downstream from culture,” Andrew Breitbart, founder of the eponymous hard-right web outlet, once said.
January 7, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Verso The sudden death our friend and comrade Leo Panitch has led to an extraordinary outpouring of sadness and appreciation across the world. Very few intellectuals on the left have had the intellectual impact on progressive thinkers and activists that Leo has had, as the flood of testimonials shows; and fewer still have in addition personally trained a comparable network of scholars of the highest calibre who are now carrying forward his distinctive project of critical – and self-critical – research and teaching in dozens of countries. Leo also combined research and teaching with engagement with activists in parties, trade unions and social movements: he knew and was consulted by leaders on the left in several continents, but was also known and admired by the rank and file who flocked to meetings whenever he showed up in Johannesburg, Athens, Frankfurt, London, Rio, New Delhi and elsewh