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Rage, a wage and the machine
In a time of increasing mechanisation, ideas about a universal basic income are being raised. ALAN SIMPSON is sceptical
You are obsolete
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN a thought-provoking Guardian article, “As robots take our jobs, we need something else,” George Monbiot argued that the the future for humanity lies in voluntary work, underpinned by a universal basic income (UBI).
A slew of economists followed suit. Then the RSA joined in, suggesting that everyone under 55 be given £10,000 over two years to pursue training or caring activities.
They all begin from a premise that, as the RSA put it, “the link between hard work and fair pay has broken.”
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