Blog Archives

Automation and the Threat to Jobs: What Response from the Labour Movement? Event to discuss how unions can respond to the threat of robotics and automation. May 23rd (tbc) 2015, London.

Radical Science and Alternative Technology: From the 70s to the Present. Discussion event with talks by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science / Alternative Technology Movement and current activists. April 11th, 1pm to 5.30pm, Feminist Library, 5 Westminster … Continue reading →

Borders and Technology: A look at contemporary and historical surveillance and control over the movement of people, plus resistance to it. Fri Feb 20th 7-9pm 2015 at Hydra Books, 34 Old Market, Bristol BS2 0EZ. Speakers include: Statewatch (statewatch.org), Bristol … Continue reading →

Negotiated in secret and widely opposed by civil society and community groups, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) calls for the ‘harmonisation’ of regulations between the United States and the E.U. Internet privacy and safety and environmental regulations in … Continue reading →

The Breaking the Frame gathering is less than a week away.  If you’re interested in coming, and especially if you want a bed in the house, we would prefer you to book your place.  However, if you have to leave … Continue reading →

Modern medicine is often trumpeted as one of the greatest examples of technological progress.  But technocratic medicine also has a very dark side. Side effects of drugs are in the top ten causes of premature deaths Continuing historic eugenic tendencies under … Continue reading →

30 Years on from Bhopal: Can we Control Toxics and Nanotechnology? As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the effects of toxic chemicals upon people and the environment are still amongst the most harmful impacts of industrial … Continue reading →

  Recent revelations about the use of Big Data for ‘predictive policing’ in the US, the scandal over spying by the US National Security Agency, and the selling of users’ data by Facebook to other corporations, have highlighted the extent … Continue reading →

Radical movements, appreciating the importance of technology, have often tried to appropriate or modify it, or even to create their own technologies. ‘Alternative’ or ‘sustainable’ technology has now become part of the mainstream, but has it lost sight of the … Continue reading →