• Social reproduction theory: What’s the big idea?

    Key to social reproduction theory (SRT) is an understanding of the ‘production of goods and services and the production of life are part of one integrated process’, or in other words: acknowledging that race and gender oppression occur capitalistically.
    In this article, Susan Ferguson, a contributor to Social Reproduction Theory, shows how SRT can deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. She explores the history of this dialectical approach, its variances, and its potentialities; providing an answer to the question: social reproduction theory, what’s the big idea?

  • Moshé Machover

    Eroding the consensus: imperialism, democracy, Zionism & the Labour Party

    Science for the People is in the process of relaunching as a publication in the United States. The original magazine archives can be viewed here. Click here to sign the petition to investigate Moshé Machover’s expulsion from the Labour Party. Science for the People (SP): Thank you for speaking with us. As the details of […]

  • Originally published in Puck magazine in 1883, “The Protectors of Our Industries” shows Cyrus Field, Jay Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Russell Sage. (Photo credit: ProMarket.org)

    The precariat under rentier capitalism

    The Precariat under Rentier Capitalism Guy Standing We are in the midst of a Global Transformation, analogous to Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation described in his seminal 1944 book. Whereas Polanyi’s Transformation was about constructing national market systems, today’s is about the painful construction of a global market system. To use Polanyi’s term, the ‘dis-embedded’ phase has been dominated by an ideology of market liberalisation, commodification and privatisation, orchestrated by financial interests, as in his model. The similarities also extend to today’s fundamental challenge, how to construct a ‘re-embedded’ phase, with new systems of regulation, distribution and social protection.

  • István Mészáros (photo credit: Carrie Ann Naumoff)

    Obituary: István Mészáros, hungarian Marxist political philosopher who taught at St Andrews

    István Mészáros, Marxist political philosopher. Born: Budapest on 19 December 1930. Died: Kent on 1 October 2017.

  • Net Neutrality - Wake Up Call

    The FCC’s plan to end Net Neutrality: What you need to know

    The details of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to destroy Net Neutrality are out. And they’re even worse than expected. Our lawyers and policy experts are reviewing the reports and gathering details about Pai’s plan. This is our first read on the most important details you need to know about this proposal. We will update this post as new details emerge.  

  • Bags of corn flour left to rot seen inside Demaseca's company plant in Venezuela. | Photo: Alba Movimientos

    Venezuelan company lets 55 tons of flour rot

    The company received more than US$85 million in government subsidies in 2015 for the production and distribution of food at fair prices.

  • [Archive photo] The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Picture: Reuters

    NUMSA condemns the military coup in Zimbabwe

    Pressed by the military forces, the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has finally resigned from his seat after 37 years in power. Although his resignation was celebrated by many, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa warns that nothing good ever came from a military coup in Africa.

  • Britains private debt crisis

    Tackling Britain’s private debt crisis

    As of July 2017, the Bank of England measured the stock of private debt held by individuals at £1.548 trillion; making household sector indebtedness one of the biggest problems facing the United Kingdom’s economy and society. There is growing public policy concern over the historically unprecedented level of household debt but little by way of proposed solutions to deal with it.

  • Political economy of labour repression in the United States

    Why is the book called “Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States”, and not the “History of Labor Repression in the United States”? Considering it is a rather comprehensive survey of labour history in the US, how do you explain your choice of the title?

  • Earth sinking (Image by Steve Johnson

    More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue ‘warning to humanity’

    “Our mandate is that we take care of Earth and earthlings and human beings because we’re all family.”

  • Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that "default" will never come to Venezuela. | Photo: Reuters

    Step by step: How to fabricate news about the ‘default’ in Venezuela

    Let us not forget that Standard & Poor, Moody and Fitch rating services are financed by the banks and therefore have no real independence.

  • Ladies holding signs against sexual harassment.

    How capitalism uses gender oppression to rule

    Following is the text of a talk delivered by the author on Nov. 4 at the “The Solution is Socialism” educational conference in Connecticut. The conference was hosted by the Youth for Socialist Action chapter at Central Connecticut State University, where the sessions were held.

  • The real fake news

    Edward S. Herman has sadly passed away. He was one of the great critical voices speaking out while the media grew steadily into the conglomerated machine it is today. It is testament to his work that his ideas transcend generations.

  • Solidarity Summit

    Venezuela hosts Global Solidarity Summit

    Human rights activists, grassroots organizers, and progressive political party representatives from around the world have gathered in Caracas to denounce U.S. economic and military aggression against Venezuela.

  • 'What a Rigged Economy Looks Like': Top 10% Now Own 77% of American Wealth

    At the bottom of the wealth pyramid

    Yesterday, I looked at the enormous wealth of U.S. billionaires and the growing gap between them and the rest of the American people.

  • “Halting at Noon.” Slaves kneeling to pray while chained together. (New York Public Library)

    Faith, myths, and Black Prometheus

    The mythologizing thought and rhetoric that sees in human struggles the pitting of god against god is as ancient as any human storytelling. More recently Black Theologians have seen in the history of black people the need to efface a white God who condones oppression and to replace him with a black God of the oppressed. Hickman’s book provides the link that ties the ancient and the modern together.

  • Anti-Capitalist Meetup: On the Oppression of Women and Violence Against Women

    On the oppression of women and violence against women

    It’s been one hell of a week and I have to be honest, I am really angry. Four times this week, I have been told that women are not oppressed under Capitalism in Advanced Capitalist Economies; this has come from the mouths of three men (one of whom is supposedly on the hard left) and one time by a young woman.

  • Precarious Work! The Reserve Army of Labour (Mexie)

    Precarious Work! The Reserve Army of Labor

    The Reserve Army of Labor

  • Photo Credit: Resumen Medio Oriente

    Yemen, the most forgotten country in the world

    Since May 2015, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sustained a permanent military invasion against Yemen, the poorest country of the Middle East. The House of Saud argues that the lands and air attacks are due to the advancement of the Ansarolá movement, born in the core of the Houthis tribe which exercises the Zaydi shi’a Islam.

  • 150 Years of Marx’s Capital

    150 years of Marx’s Capital

    150 years back, Karl Marx’s Magnum Opus Das Kapital (Volume I) rolled out of the press on September, 1867. The publication signified nothing short of a silent revolution on the theoretical plane, and the world would never be the same again. Capital soon became the most discussed and debated work.