Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. Lead article, Automation and the working class, by Martin Thomas.
Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-14/automation-and-working-class

See also:
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-2-the-future-and-robots-hipster-reformism-and-the-technological-fix
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-4-marxs-telescope
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-5-the-great-foundation-stone-of-wealth

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Automation

Automation 1 — Automation and the working class — lead article

How did the Corbyn surge of the last few years end up with Sir Kier Starmer as Labour Leader? And what should socialists be doing within Labour now? Duncan, an education worker from South London introduces the situation at a discussion group in April 2020. 

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Starmer and the Labour Left — intro

At the end of May 2020, a group of casualised workers at Goldsmiths College, London announced they would be withdrawing their labour by taking part in a marking boycott, in response to a wave of redundancies, nonpayment for hours worked during lockdown and the management’s decision not to furlough staff. 

This conversation, recorded over Zoom, brings together five organisers of the wildcat strike to reflect on what made the action necessary, what its implications are for labour struggles in academia and beyond, and what its potential fallout- and future- will be.

Edited by Ash Reid.
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https://precariousatgold.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/goldsmiths-dispute-autumn-update/

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Goldsmiths Wildcats in conversation

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