5LL #255 - Starbucks, Revolution, Freedom, Platforms, Luddites

Inside Starbucks’ Dirty War Against Organized Labor
Megan K. Stack, The New York Times
The corporate dirty war that ensued — in Nottingham and at newly unionized Starbucks cafes across the country — draws a sobering picture of employee rights casually crushed and labor laws too weak to help.
Risk and Revolution
Wen Stephenson, The Baffler
It’s almost as if a specter haunts the climate left: the specter of revolution, past and future.
Communism is Freedom
Søren Mau, Verso
Ideas about a future society won't in themselves bring us to a better future, but ideas can function as points of orientation for collective struggle. What should the communism we fight for look like?
They Don’t Want Us and We Don’t Need Them
David Roth, Defector
There is no reason that the people who made this moment, and who are currently rushing to put up fences and turnstiles everywhere they can, really need to be a part of whatever is next.
I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!)
Tom Humberstone, The Nib
What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.
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