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    Pokopia, cosy games and the problem of escapism

    ‘Cosy games’ have grown in popularity in recent years but can they be more than mere escapism? Dr Stephanie Farnsworth investigates

  • A b&w photo of a white man wearing glasses with a book cover (The Reverse Cenataur's Guide to Life After AI) against a computer chip background

    Cory Doctorow: AI bubbles, bosses and sci-fi

    As The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI hits shelves, author Cory Doctorow explains the widely destructive promise of the AI bubble

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    Corporate profiteering and the war on Iran

    Amid the war on Iran, UK economic policy allows the super-rich to profit while the public struggle with living costs, writes Jake Woodier

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    Real existing degrowth

    Radical alternatives to capitalism are being practiced across the world as everyday realities, writes Grace Wright-Arora

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    Behind the ‘intelligent’ chatbot

    Angela Chukunzira, Tyler Finken and Finn Jetses highlight multinational resistance to AI’s social and ecological impact

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    Rethinking racism

    Racism is an exercise of power, says Gargi Bhattacharyya. We must abandon liberal analyses and revive anti-racist organising traditions

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    The migrant genocide

    Understanding the massacre of migrants making their way to the global north is a key moment of class struggle, argues Iker Suárez, and for halting Europe’s march towards fascism

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