“You Can Sleep Here All Night”: Video Games and Labor
Exploitation in the video game industry provides a glimpse at how many of us may be working in years to come.
19185 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Sharecropping in the Cloud
Rather than benefiting all, cloud computing’s main innovation will be enhanced control for technological rentiers.
Gawker’s Crack Addiction
Gawker’s harping on Rob Ford’s crack use is laced with the drug’s racial and class associations.
Socialism in One Village
Spain’s Marinaleda may not quite be a utopia, but it beats “reality” hands-down.
Wells Fargo’s Makeover
Wells Fargo has found a way to spin its history of racist and predatory lending into public relations gold.
A Confederacy of Kidnappers
12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era’s painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.
From Bandung to BRICs
Vijay Prashad’s Poorer Nations asks whether the Global South can pose a credible alternative to neoliberal development.
When Richard Nixon Met Karl Polanyi
On the Guaranteed Annual Income, Nixon turned to Polanyi.
Reclaiming Comrade Orwell
George Orwell has become a mirror into which any political position can look into and see itself staring back. But make no mistake — Orwell belongs to the Left.
A Different Kind of Shutdown
Does the Left have anything to learn from the Tea Party?
Sexual Liberation, Human Freedom
This century’s LGBTQ liberation movement must be part of a broader project to redefine human freedom.
Adbusted
Behind the bizarre ideology that fuels Adbusters.
Robert Taft: “Moderate” and McCarthyite
Robert Taft would have felt at home among today’s Senate reactionaries.
Any Given Saturday
Football players at Grambling State did they only thing they could do — they went on strike.
Betting on Militancy
The Fight for 15 campaign has the potential to revitalize and transform the labor movement.
Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
The fight at the heart of the BART strike isn’t over whether or not to innovate — it’s about innovation that improves transit service without degrading and disempowering workers.
Don’t Disrupt the Disruptors
Union workers – especially union workers on strike – really piss the Bay Area technorati off.
Back to the Fragments
A socialist-feminist classic appeared just as Thatcherism began pulverizing the Left. Today, should it be read as historical document or a blueprint for action?
The Shadow Right
Focusing only on the intransigent right during the ongoing budget battles lets the weak, passive left off the hook.
The Resurrection of Ralph Miliband
The British right’s posthumous attacks on Ralph Miliband may have revived his ideas for a new generation on the Left.