The Eyes of Amazon: A Hidden Workforce Driving a Vast Surveillance System

The Eyes of Amazon: A Hidden Workforce Driving a Vast Surveillance System

Inside a vast Amazon warehouse in Beaumont, California, squat blue robots carrying eight-foot yellow shelving units perform a jerky, mechanised dance around each other as they make their way to human workers. Amari* works 42 hours a week there as a stower, placing products on the shelves robots bring to him. “Cameras are trained on…

Project Nimbus: How Amazon and Google Made Billions from Israel’s Occupation

Project Nimbus: How Amazon and Google Made Billions from Israel’s Occupation

“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. In their letter, the signatories protested a $1.2 billion contract between Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Israeli government…

Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods

Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods

Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of the online retail start-up Jet.com. This was followed in 2018 with a US$16 billion take-over of India’s largest online retail platform, Flipkart. Today, Walmart and Amazon…

Time to Rein in Amazon’s Empire

Time to Rein in Amazon’s Empire

The world is entering an era of undeniable change that will be defined by our collective response to the human and economic devastation left by the pandemic. As Covid-19 continues to spread across the globe, Amazon´s rise to the top of the winner-take-all economy is a call to action to progressive forces who still believe in the politics of the common good and are willing to fight for the affirmation of the dignity of work….