Why workers don’t revolt, fighting Amazon in South Africa, the horrors of solitary confinement.

• Political economist Sam Gindin, author of this piece, talks about competition and the working class

• Leslie London, director of Observatory Civic Association in Cape Town, South Africa, on a fight against Amazon. The Facebook page for the campaign is here.

• Tana Ganeva, a journalist specializing in criminal justice, talks about the prevalence and evils of solitary confinement. Her Rolling Stone piece is here.