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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you!

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 21h

This is gonna be good!!

Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 21h

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!

This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.

UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 20h

I got to read an early draft of this excellent book by my friend @mattcole.bsky.social! Absolute must read for anyone wondering how wage theft became so normalized across our economies & how things could be otherwise 💸🤑💰🪙💳👷🏼‍♂️👩🏿‍💼👨🏻‍🏭🧑🏾‍🍳👨🏾‍🏭🧑🏼‍🔧👩🏿‍🏫👩🏻‍🌾❤️‍🔥🚩🌹🍞

Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 21h

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!

This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.

UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you James!

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 21h

just pre-ordered - will be a fantastic read, I know bsky.app/profile/matt...

Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 21h

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!

This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.

UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...

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Solange Manche @smanche.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌹 Hi there: I'm still looking for a job & short-term gigs 🌹

• Main research interests: financialisation studies, French philosophy/political phil, French econ history & francophone colonial hist & activism.

• Journalism: French politics & activism & long-form on French thought & culture.

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 21h

US preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/unpa...

Unpaid: The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft

The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft

bookshop.org

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 21h

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!

This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.

UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 3d

The second keynote of the tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies @brosef-stalin.bsky.social "Abolish Capital: Disrupting the Laws of Motion" @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

Ashok Kumar giving a keynote at conference in a full lecture hall

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 3d

As spectre is haunting Denmark, the spectre of @brosef-stalin.bsky.social

(keynote at the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference)

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 3d

Hygge Marxism takes material form ❤️✊

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 3d

Day two of the conference is underway with great panels on transformative futures and on critical aesthetics 🤩

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 5d

I'm glad the government will not introduce employment tribunal fees, but it's not true that "everyone, no matter their income" can get "access to justice" under the current system.

The barriers are endless & if you overcome them & win, you still might not even get the money you are owed

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 6d

(it opens at 9:30, mind)

Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 6d

there are always loads of free desks in the reading rooms. I’m there all the time.

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 6d

It’s incredible to me the absolute dross that gets published as op-ed’s in the Guardian yet my pitch on one of the biggest scandals in our country regarding labour rights and rogue employers gets no response.

Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 7d

Why would you line up at 9am in front of the British Library? It’s not fucking Berghain.

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 12d

Raf worked for a cafe chain popular with MPs & journalists. He won his case, but the company went insolvent. Then the directors reopened one of the branches

One of the directors wrote to him saying "go fck yourself" & he was glad he "didn't get a penny"
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Whatsapp message from company director which says: "“Glad you didn’t get a penny from your claim as you don’t deserve fck all. I don’t appreciate the comments made about me in your statement and I wish you had the balls of a real man to say it to my face which you are not.
However being a 2 faced prick is a full time job which you have mastered. So go fck yourself.”

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 12d

Rosie tried everything to get the £6,000 she was awarded. She even spoke to her MP & the employment minister - they didn't help.

Her boss has the cash. In videos he brags about his expensive cars & has a Rolex that's worth more than what he owes her.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 11d

This is a huge story.

Wage theft is rampant across the UK and the meagre legal protections meant to contest it are not even being enforced, with bosses laughing about how they just ignored judge’s rulings.

Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · 19d

A great read on the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), whose last summer party was held at McKinsey's HQ and co-hosted by ex-McKinsey current chair of NHS England. It includes important info on the revolving door between this tech and petrostate-funded think tank and Starmer's government, including - 1/2

Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social · 20d

Illuminating read on the Tony Blair Institute: "an organisation unusually close to the British government, able to lobby ministers directly, and which holds joint retreats with Oracle and is willing to engage in “tech sales” with governments in the rest of the world."

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?

www.newstatesman.com

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 20d

Cool, so what happens when they graduate and their access ends. All this is doing is turning students into a guaranteed revenue stream for the company.

Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 22d

Hard to overstate what a *huge* win this is for OpenAI in its strategy to spread its malign, brain- and planet-destroying tentacles all through the education sector. Oxford’s global standing will create a permission structure for many other schools to do likewise. “If Oxford’s doing it, then…”

Screenshot of a post University of Oxford stating that from now on all students and staff at Oxford will have free access to ChatGPT. The post claims that ChatGPT edu is “built for education with enhanced privacy and insecurity.“

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations Thea!

Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 20d

Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 20d

I prefer the version by @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social @kaiheron.bsky.social

www.plutobooks.com/product/radi...

Radical Abundance - Pluto Press

A blueprint for escaping capitalism and creating a world of true abundance

www.plutobooks.com

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 21d

What a surprise that a batshit libertarian ideologue has destroyed another nation’s economy.

on.ft.com/3VrEZk5

How Argentina’s Javier Milei lost the markets and turned to Donald Trump

Libertarian president’s tight grip on inflation cost him political capital and dollars

on.ft.com

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