Britain Does Not Need a Labour Shortage
Britain doesn’t need a labour shortage to punish the poor.
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Britain doesn’t need a labour shortage to punish the poor.
Malcolm X was not just a man but an ongoing process. A revolutionary for us all—even children—his journey from rage to clarity shows how radical truth is learned, lived, and handed down.
A functioning health system is not one where executives earn bonuses while patients die in corridors.
On Andor, Class Struggle, and Watching Rebellion Under Trumpism
Let’s not pretend this is clever politics. It’s cowardice. The real danger is not that Labour contines to lose votes to Reform. It’s that it becomes Reform, in language, in policy, and in the cruel calculus of who gets to belong.
Warfare looks and sounds like war, but says nothing about it. Iraqis are reduced to bullet magnets, the mission is never named, and behind the realism lies a vacuum: of politics, of purpose, of meaning.
Britain doesn’t need a labour shortage to punish the poor.
The AI revolution isn’t ushering in a working-class revival. It’s dragging the middle class into the same precarity the rest of us have always lived with.
The professional class is learning, too late, that capitalism never needed their skills—only their compliance, until it didn’t.
Watching Severance, I couldn’t help wondering if we’re already living it, split between the person we are at work and who we are the rest of the time, with capitalism quietly stealing the best parts of us.
Algorithmic management does not simply discipline workers; it renders the very logic of their exploitation opaque, and in Cyberboss, Craig Gent dissects this transformation with forensic precision.
The idea that work is a moral duty rather than a means of survival is so deeply ingrained we rarely question it. But as technology advances and work becomes more precarious, exhausting, and intrusive, it is worth asking why productivity remains the measure of a person’s worth.
Labour’s latest signal that it intends to impose sweeping cuts to welfare represents a stark betrayal of working-class interests and a capitulation to the logic of capital.
The rise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) isn’t a step toward human progress, it’s a weapon for capital, designed to intensify exploitation, erase jobs, and cement the power of the dominant class.
Exploring the interwoven fates of the worker and the capitalist, this piece delves into the consequences of hyper-capitalism, the blurring of work and life, and the potential for liberation through the fracturing of capitalist time.