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‘We need to assert our power - or we’ll get trampled on’: the cleaner sacked for eating a tuna sandwich
Print, Britain, Inequality, Workers, Resistance Jack Shenker 8/3/24 Print, Britain, Inequality, Workers, Resistance Jack Shenker 8/3/24

‘We need to assert our power - or we’ll get trampled on’: the cleaner sacked for eating a tuna sandwich

Gabriela Rodriguez was fired from her job over a minor misdemeanour. Now she and others like her are fighting back

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‘To them, we are like robots’: the inside story of a strike at Amazon
Print, Britain, Community, Inequality, Resistance, Workers, Technology, Political Crisis Jack Shenker 7/29/23 Print, Britain, Community, Inequality, Resistance, Workers, Technology, Political Crisis Jack Shenker 7/29/23

‘To them, we are like robots’: the inside story of a strike at Amazon

When staff in Coventry downed tools, they kickstarted a David v Goliath battle against one of the most powerful companies on Earth. This is what happened next

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How a Manchester United superfan became a conspiracy theorist
Print, Britain, Political Crisis, Community, Inequality Jack Shenker 1/25/23 Print, Britain, Political Crisis, Community, Inequality Jack Shenker 1/25/23

How a Manchester United superfan became a conspiracy theorist

Is the internet really to blame for the rise of conspiracy theories, or are they a symptom of a much wider political malaise?

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Meet the “Inactivists”, Tangling Up the Climate Crisis in Culture Wars
Print, Britain, Climate, Community, Inequality, Political Crisis Jack Shenker 11/11/21 Print, Britain, Climate, Community, Inequality, Political Crisis Jack Shenker 11/11/21

Meet the “Inactivists”, Tangling Up the Climate Crisis in Culture Wars

As climate science has gone mainstream, outright denialism has been pushed to the fringes. Now a new tactic of dismissing green policies as elitist is on the rise, and has zoned in on a bitter row over a disused airport in Kent

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Deliveroo Wants to Change the Way We Eat. What Does that Really Mean?
Print, Britain, Technology, Community, Workers, Inequality, Cities Jack Shenker 4/25/21 Print, Britain, Technology, Community, Workers, Inequality, Cities Jack Shenker 4/25/21

Deliveroo Wants to Change the Way We Eat. What Does that Really Mean?

Global capital's favourite food delivery platform felt like a lifeline during the pandemic. But from dark kitchens to big data, its long-term path to profitability raises some troubling questions

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Egypt’s Dystopia is a Lesson for the World
Print, Egypt, State Violence, Resistance, Political Crisis, Inequality, Cities Jack Shenker 1/25/21 Print, Egypt, State Violence, Resistance, Political Crisis, Inequality, Cities Jack Shenker 1/25/21

Egypt’s Dystopia is a Lesson for the World

Ten years after the revolution, Tahrir Square is sanitised, the dictatorship in place harsher than the one it replaced. But while the revolutionary generation came from ruins, it is not ruined

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This photo caused shock waves in 1992, where are its subjects now?
Print, Britain, Community, Inequality Jack Shenker 11/14/20 Print, Britain, Community, Inequality Jack Shenker 11/14/20

This photo caused shock waves in 1992, where are its subjects now?

Craig Easton’s photographs of the Williams family in Blackpool in the early 90s exposed Thatcherism’s legacy of child poverty. Over two decades later, he tracked them down

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Conversations with Stuart Hall: Unravelling and Resistance
Print, Britain, Egypt, Political Crisis, Inequality, State Violence, Resistance Jack Shenker 6/21/20 Print, Britain, Egypt, Political Crisis, Inequality, State Violence, Resistance Jack Shenker 6/21/20

Conversations with Stuart Hall: Unravelling and Resistance

A keynote lecture given for the Stuart Hall Foundation's Third Annual Public Conversation at Conway Hall, London

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Centrists Won’t Save Britain
Print, Britain, Political Crisis, Inequality Jack Shenker 8/29/18 Print, Britain, Political Crisis, Inequality Jack Shenker 8/29/18

Centrists Won’t Save Britain

Liberals are peddling an ahistorical nostalgia. The people aren’t buying it.

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Coming Home to the Counter Revolution
Print, Egypt, Cities, State Violence, Resistance, Inequality Jack Shenker 8/4/17 Print, Egypt, Cities, State Violence, Resistance, Inequality Jack Shenker 8/4/17

Coming Home to the Counter Revolution

For Granta magazine - A weird relationship with a wondrous city gets weirder still

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Tilbury: Britain’s ‘Brexiteer’ Town at the World’s End
Print, Film, Britain, Community, Inequality, Political Crisis Jack Shenker 6/6/17 Print, Film, Britain, Community, Inequality, Political Crisis Jack Shenker 6/6/17

Tilbury: Britain’s ‘Brexiteer’ Town at the World’s End

Twenty miles east of London, one forgotten port community is on the frontline of a global upheaval. Tilbury's contested history is a window onto our fast-changing political landscape - in Britain, and beyond

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Marikana: After the Massacre
Print, Elsewhere, State Violence, Resistance, Community, Inequality, Investigation Jack Shenker 4/3/15 Print, Elsewhere, State Violence, Resistance, Community, Inequality, Investigation Jack Shenker 4/3/15

Marikana: After the Massacre

A series of special reports exploring the legacy of the Marikana mineworker massacre, in South Africa and beyond.

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The Corridors of Counter-Revolution: Sharm el-Sheikh and the International Elite
Print, Egypt, State Violence, Inequality, Resistance Jack Shenker 3/15/15 Print, Egypt, State Violence, Inequality, Resistance Jack Shenker 3/15/15

The Corridors of Counter-Revolution: Sharm el-Sheikh and the International Elite

As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions

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More Than Scottish Pride
Print, Britain, Political Crisis, Inequality, Borders, Community Jack Shenker 9/16/14 Print, Britain, Political Crisis, Inequality, Borders, Community Jack Shenker 9/16/14

More Than Scottish Pride

Scotland’s independence referendum isn’t about nationalism. It’s about a system that failed, and a new generation looking to take a chance on itself

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Cairo Divided
Print, Egypt, Cities, Inequality, Land and Resources Jack Shenker 11/1/11 Print, Egypt, Cities, Inequality, Land and Resources Jack Shenker 11/1/11

Cairo Divided

A megacity turns itself inside out

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Repopulating an Antique Land: Egypt’s Forbidding Western Desert
Print, Egypt, Land and Resources, Travel, Community, Climate, Inequality Jack Shenker 1/29/10 Print, Egypt, Land and Resources, Travel, Community, Climate, Inequality Jack Shenker 1/29/10

Repopulating an Antique Land: Egypt’s Forbidding Western Desert

One hundred years ago, the British explorer WJ Harding King tried and failed to cross Egypt’s myth-laden Western Desert. Jack Shenker follows his footsteps into a once-isolated world on the cusp of transformation.

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Band of Outsiders
Print, Egypt, Community, State Violence, Land and Resources, Inequality, Resistance Jack Shenker 11/7/08 Print, Egypt, Community, State Violence, Land and Resources, Inequality, Resistance Jack Shenker 11/7/08

Band of Outsiders

Excluded from the rapid development of Sinai’s tourist coast and subject to a prolonged police crackdown, the Bedouins who have made the Peninsula their home for centuries now teeter on the brink of social implosion

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