Work less to save the planet: Being free from work as a means of survival can help fight the climate crisis we find ourselves in.“Increased free time would also mean a reduction in all the convenience goods bought to fit into our hectic work schedules”, hence it would...
Work-time reduction
"It is time to revive the international demand for shorter work hours" (Lizzie O’Shea) with no cut in pay. In addition to improving health and well-being and reducing general unemployment, a twenty-hour work week as described by Kate Soper, could promote “better...
110 Years International Women’s day
♀︎💪Today we celebrate 110 years International Women*s Day, the day where we make ourselves heard and seen for women*s rights! We look back on some of the women and events of the women’s movement.On March 19th in 1911, the first international women’s day was held in...
Join your local women*s march
Tomorrow is international women*s day! ♀︎💪Join your local protest/strike/actions! If you can’t take part in the march there are other ways you can join the protests:– Join an online strike/protest!– Slow down your work if it’s not possible to completely withdraw from...
Immaterial Labour
Immaterial labour, "the labor that produces the informational and cultural content of the commodity", [1] is highly topical, as a rising majority of people spend most of their time before screens and the lines between work and leisure are hard to separate. In addition...
The Intellectual Proletarian
'Intellectual Proletarians' by Emma Goldman from 1914 is rather timely, as more people are affected by "the changes taking place in workers’ labor processes […], where the skills involved in direct labor are increasingly skills involving cybernetics and computer...
The Architect as Worker | Part 2
"Why did we architects give up on the worker?" tackles the question of responsibility of architects, be it towards construction workers, the environment or society as a whole.Part of clubexpress is working in the creative sector, and some of us are soon-to-be...
Time after Capitalism
What could Time after Capitalism look like? 💭 "Most of us don’t know what it would feel like to waste time without the nagging feeling that we should be doing something else. What if we were free to find out?" Miya Tokumitsu,It’s time to (re)discuss how we could...
Capitalism vs. The Climate
📢 This weekend, thousands of protests were held around the world on 'Global Climate Action Day' to demand urgent action to tackle the climate crisis. 📢 It’s either capitalism or the climate."Capitalism is now changing the world very literally, altering the planet’s...
Glossary: Housing Poor
The term house poor or housing poor (derived from the term working poor) describes a person who spends a disproportionally large amount of their monthly income on housing expenses. Accordingly, the expenses for housing should not exceed 30% of a person's income....
Being Black in the EU – Racist incident reports
"People of African descent regularly feel discriminated against in many areas of life, whether on the basis of skin colour, ethnic origin or religion. Very few report discrimination they experience to any organisation, despite knowing of equality bodies and...
Glossary: Racial Profiling
Racial Profiling"[...] racial profiling is discriminatory and unlawful. Such profiling is defined as the “use by police, with no objective and reasonable justification, of grounds such as race, colour, language, religion, nationality or national or ethnic origin in...
Sustainable living & individual responsibility
'The New Normal' and sustainable development: How can we shift the focus from 'individual blame' to fundamental changes in societies and systems? If we want to keep up with the climate crisis and the effects that emerge from this development, how can we organise and...
Postcapitalism
What can postcapitalism look like?Unlimited growth is not possible in a world with limited resources. As our current political system — capitalism — is based on economic growth, we have to ask ourselves: What can postcapitalism look like?"Humanity’s 21st century...