Developing countries face collapsing international trade, falling remittances, sharp reversals of capital flows, and currency depreciation. Only bold policies—debt relief, international financing, planning, and more—will avert further catastrophe.
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United States: An ‘all hands on deck’ moment–Sixty six old new leftists urge support for Joe Biden
SDS, along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), had been in the vanguard of the new left in the 1960s, and some of these oldsters now want to challenge a position taken by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), currently the foremost organization on the left today. They tell us “this is an all hands […]
Student debt jubilee—pandemic edition
The United States is currently experiencing a dystopian orgy of death and destruction.
Coronavirus: a return to normal is not good enough
We shouldn’t be satisfied with a return to normalcy. We need a “new normal.”
Coronavirus and the crisis of African American human rights
With the overwhelming evidence that the capitalist system is fundamentally antithetical to the realization of human rights, including what should be an elementary right—access to healthcare—the presidency of Donald J. Trump has been a godsend for the capitalist rulers.
Employees say Smithfield plant in Wisconsin concealed COVID-19 infections, pressured them to work elbow to elbow without protection
A recent outbreak at Smithfield’s pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is now one of the largest COVID-19 hotspots in the U.S., with 644 confirmed cases tied to the facility. The Smithfield outbreak represents nearly half of all confirmed cases in that state.
Marxism and Ecology in a time of pandemic: John Bellamy Foster, Amy Leather & Martin Empson
Join John Bellamy Foster, Amy Leather & Martin Empson to discuss Marxism and ecology in a time of pandemic. The global environmental crisis has demonstrated how the system’s drive to accumulate means that capitalism puts profit before people and planet.
Capitalism’s weak doses of socialism to treat the economic infection of COVID-19
The same proposals that were demonized yesterday as radical socialism are embraced today to save the society from collapse.
Blaming China for the COVID-19 crisis is deceitful
Vijay Prashad talks about China’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, especially in the light of the accusations that are being leveled against the country
How China broke the chain of infection
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread.
Problem with what’s taught in school || Spoken Word
The Problem with whats taught in School. What do you think? Comments? Thoughts? Lets start a conversation.
Charles Bradley: Why Is It So Hard to Make It in America?
If you got a clean heart and a clean mind and you have been abused, used, and refused—that is soul.
The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries
Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.
Coronavirus, crisis, and the end of neoliberalism
Suddenly, we find ourselves in a transformed world. Empty streets, closed shops, unusually clear skies, and climbing death tolls: something unprecedented is unfolding before our eyes.
Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic
After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it’s easy to see how epidemiology came next.
Without a country in which to live, a field to plant, a love to cherish or a voice to sing, one is dead
Local communities have demonstrated remarkable generosity, but cannot cope anymore. National capacities are overwhelmed. The approaching lean season, coupled with the armed conflict and the COVID-19, will generate further dramatic situations and displacements of populations. The clock is ticking; we have little time left.
Critical realism and Marxism
From roughly the 17th century human inquiry about our world assumed an attitude we understand as “scientific” and to demarcate itself from religion or “metaphysics.”
Marx in the era of pandemic capitalism
How could Karl Marx (1818–1883) help us interpret the current crisis? His theory of history offers critical resources to interpret the unprecedented crisis which is shaking the world today, while indicating at the same time that ‘the world after’ so much mentioned could only be anti-capitalist.
Neoliberalism and finance capital have been defeated by coronavirus
The member of MST’s national board analyzes the current international and Brazilian contexts in wake of the coronavirus pandemic
Empire Files: U.S. empire exploits COVID-19 for more war
Abby Martin breaks down all the hidden acts of US foreign policy aggression under the cover of the COVID19 pandemic.
