War and poverty in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has a population of 126mn and is the second most populous state in Africa, behind Nigeria
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Ethiopia has a population of 126mn and is the second most populous state in Africa, behind Nigeria
Vladimir Kikadze’s “Special Operation: The Ukrainian Front of the War Against Russia“, published in Moscow earlier this year, is a truly dismal book
Grammar schools are academically-selective secondary schools funded by the state
Social care in the UK is dire. In March 2022, 50% of care workers were on minimum wage or below minimum wage plus 59p an hour. 24% of them are on zero-hours contracts. In the lower pay grades, a majority are part-time, and so often doing more than one job.
The immediate crisis for Vladimir Putin’s Russian regime is over. A deal was reached with the Wagner coup leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. He turned his Moscow-bound troop convoy around, late on Saturday 24 June, and sent his fighters back towards their bases in southern Russia and occupied Ukraine. As we go to press on 27 June, there are hints the deal may not hold, but we don’t know.
The Wagner troops had killed a dozen Russian helicopter crew, shot down after attacking the Wagner insurgency.
In Poland we live in a world of appearances.
New laws aimed at repressing radical protest and scaring activists into silence are being used to harass environmental, anti-deportation and left-wing political campaigners. And so are many old ones: in fact, jail sentences tend to be for “old” offences. The new laws give the police vast new powers against protest which they are only just starting to use.
The right and far-right in the US are emboldened and on the attack. Having already flooded state legislatures this year with hundreds of bills aiming to smash the rights of LGBTQ+ people, many of which explicitly target the rights of LGBTQ+ youth, the conservative right are likewise aiming for an unprecedented expansion of child labour. As the cost of living spirals, the right are waging amongst the most flagrantly abusive forms of class warfare; rolling back weak laws at the state and federal level to force kids from poor families into work.
The following represents the opinion of Joanna Harper and is not in any way a representation of the opinion of Loughborough University.
Joanna Harper is a researcher on trans sport performance (at Loughborough University), author of the book Sporting Gender, and a trans athlete herself.
Alva Gotby’s They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life is the latest contribution to a growing series of Verso books on the topic of Social Reproduction Theory, in which Gotby explores the concept of emotional reproduction. She defines this as, on the one hand, the work of generating certain feelings in those around us, and, on the other, the work of maintaining the social norms that are both “cause and effect” of emotional labour as we know it.
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