The French historian François Furet sought to to discredit the revolutionary tradition. Since then, history has been busy discrediting him.

The Center for Global Workers' Rights in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at The Pennsylvania State University proudly presents Dr. Alexander Gal...

The Academic as Revolutionary

Foucault was not asking the

The rise of Platform Capitalism has seen the emergence of a new business model in which companies become—or present themselves as—platforms. Through the utilisation of digital technologies, companies like Google, Facebook, and Uber have been able to extract massive amounts of data and profits. These new technologies are promising to reshape society—but what is the impact for people and the world we live in? What does this mean for our environment? For the consumer, these services—whether paid or ostensibly free—appear as immaterial. Tapping on an app sends messages to other side of the world. It orders all kinds of things with next-day delivery. A takeaway at the front door in thirty minutes. A personal driver. The experience of interacting with these companies is deliberately seamless, aided by a huge investment in user experience design. Obscuring how the company works In comparison, the inner workings of these companies are becoming increasingly harder to comprehend, something that

A re-imagining of the events of October 1917, by one of one of the edgiest and most political of writers working today.