James Bloodworth (journalist)

A former member of the Trotskyist group Alliance for Workers' Liberty,[3][4] he edited the left-wing blog Left Foot Forward from 2013 until 2016.

To research the conditions faced by those working in low-paid and minimum-wage jobs, the author spent six months employed in such posts.

This included periods working as a care worker in Blackpool,[16] an Uber driver and in the UK packaging warehouse of Amazon.

Sanders tweeted out the video as part of the senator's push to introduce a bill that would charge large companies such as Amazon for the federal welfare programs that subsidize their low-wage workers.

Bloodworth wrote: "Just a handful of years ago the Venezuelan government was praised uncritically by much of the Western left.

Today it is an embarrassment – every emaciated Venezuelan a testament to the credulity of those who once lauded Hugo Chavez as the leader of a 'progressive, populist government that says no to neo-liberalism' (Owen Jones).