With Corbyn, the election campaign proved that there is a huge appetite for his honesty, his passion, his commitment to social justice – at least when audiences got a chance to hear from him directly, rather than having his policies and personality mediated and distorted by a biased and self-serving corporate media.
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On Friday morning the vast majority of the world may well have a lot to celebrate, a principled socialist may have defied the ruling-class in becoming the Prime Minister of the world’s fifth largest economy. If this happens the world will never be the same again.
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Talented people logically want to express those talents in the marketplace. The good news is that they're getting that chance. Thanks to a surge of investor interest in Silicon Valley, companies like Google are, according to Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times, "funding the biggest, most world-changing things. They are spending on ideas that, years from now, we may come to see as having altered life for much of the planet."
There is a very popular – and very first-world – narrative that is increasingly being passed around within the US commentariat about the "grave ill" supposedly infecting America: the decline of the working male. Back in reality, this alleged crisis simply isn't.
I am not a morning person, and coffee is my best friend. Sometimes afternoons don’t work for me either, so it’s back to the coffee pot. Some of you are probably the same way. But a new study shows that 10 minutes of walking could be more effective than caffeine at perking you up … at least temporarily.
Should anyone be forced to accept representation from a private entity against his or her will? In the US, if a union gets at least 50 percent plus one of the workers in an enterprise to vote in favor of the union’s representation, then all workers must be represented by the union – even those who abstained and who voted against being represented by the union.
It turns out that measuring unemployment is a tricky thing. When you get it sorted out as best you can, you find two things: the bad news is that our employment rate isn't as good as we thought it was. The good news is that things are getting better.
In recent years, income inequality has become a major political and economic issue in America. It is true that, adjusted for inflation, average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in the private sector have barely changed between 1979 and 2015. But wages do not provide the full picture of workers’ earnings.
From strengthening economies and family life, to improving gender equality and democracy, 10 ways a shorter working week could benefit us
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France has passed a bill urging companies to respect employees’ time outside of office hours. Could similar legislation help people aged 25-34 in the UK – the group that is unhappiest with work-life balance here?
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