Construction Rank and File meeting this Saturday

In the first online instalment of ‘Bastard Boss of the Week’, a worker in the “best airport bar in the world” exposes his bosses’ profit-hungry practices; while a coffee shop worker in London tells us about his successes organising in the workplace.

With the recent rise of artificial intelligence, the capitalist press has gone into overdrive, peddling wild fantasies about the future of work. But are the bots coming for white-collar jobs? And what does this all mean for the class struggle?

The UK’s largest fibreglass factory is set to close imminently. At the same time Starmer is launching an industrial strategy. The farce of the situation illustrates the bankruptcy of British capitalism.