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Marx and Critical Social Ontology: Learning from the later Lukács feat. Michael J. Thompson
The purpose of Marxist theory is not only to diagnose the negative forces and effects of capitalist society; emphasis must also be placed on the need for social transformation that would enhance human progress at the social and individual level.
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How the International Monetary Fund continues to shrink the poorer Nations: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2023)
At Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, we continue to monitor the IMF’s impact on developing economies, including in our new dossier, How the International Monetary Fund Is Squeezing Pakistan (October 2023).
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Tearing down the cubicle: Organising with Gen-Z office workers
Hate your office job? Overwhelmed by late capitalist society? Feel like you’re slipping into fatalism? Nathan Ó Broin has some tips on how to overcome your alienation.
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Mass rallies in support of Gaza continue with momentum
The world stands up for Palestine in the face of Israeli atrocities and massacres without fear of oppression despite all efforts by many governments to suppress any anti-“Israel” public expression.
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Common sense solutions for collapse
Humanity faces a crisis of unprecedented proportions–a double-edged sword threatening both our planet and its people.
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How capitalism killed nutrition
Review of ‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ By Chris van Tulleken.
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The Global 1933
The barbarism of consumption based on the death of others leads us to an unprecedented rise of fascism, and thus to the death of democracy and freedom. It is barbarism, or global 1933, as I call it. 1933 was the year when Hitler rose to power.
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Class Leaders and ‘Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism’
The basic aim of ‘Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy”’ is to bring class back into thinking about capitalism and alternatives.
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Karl Marx’s “degrowth communism”?
A review of ‘Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism’, Kohei Saito (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
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Degrowth – How anti-worker would it be?
One accusation still seems to lack an adequate response: Is the U.S. working class inherently anti-degrowth because it would mean a massive loss of jobs?
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Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems
An estimated 12 million metric tons of plastic currently enters the ocean each year.
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Agencies that promote nuclear power are quietly managing its disaster narrative
Let’s start with the total amount of radiation that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant STILL contains today. The spent fuel at the site contains 85 times more cesium-137 than Chornobyl and 50,000 to 100,000 times more than the Hiroshima bomb.
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‘Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International, 1900–1910’ – book review
The debates between socialists in the Congresses of the Second International raised issues which remain of central importance to the left today, argues Chris Bambery.
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“Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering.” Scientists alarmed as September smashes temperature records
Over the northern hemisphere summer that has been dominated by floods, fires, and unrelenting heat, with temperature records being regularly smashed, climate scientists have become increasingly alarmed.
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Debt-pushing as financial inclusion
Ajay Banga was anointed World Bank president for promoting financial inclusion. Thanks to its success and interest rate hikes, more poor people are drowning in debt as consumer prices rise.
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Talking shit
What links Karl Marx, William S. Burroughs, Dalit struggles in India and the Yetties’ famous Muckspreader Song? Ed Emery writes on the centrality of excrement, both metaphorical and literal, to the modern world.
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Shouldn’t the United Kingdom and France relinquish their permanent seats at the United Nations?: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2023)
At its fifteenth summit in August 2023, the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) group adopted the Johannesburg II Declaration, which, amongst other issues, raised the question of reforming the United Nations, particularly its security council. To make the UN Security Council (UNSC) ‘more democratic, representative, effective, and efficient, and to increase the representation of developing countries’, BRICS urged the expansion of the council’s membership to include countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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“Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income” – book review
“Welfare for Markets” exposes the neoliberal links of basic income, and helps to explain why it is not a useful demand for the left, argues Dominic Alexander
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The perilous path from Western domination to de-dollarisation
One of the major problems faced by Global South countries is that they are saddled with immense debts in dollars, and Western corporations claim ownership over their resources.
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In the AI of the Beholder: Discussing Artificial Intelligence – Part 1
In an introductory article discussing artificial intelligence, Memet Uludağ looks at the historical context around technological advancement and takes stock of some of the hype around AI. Will AI be the gamechanger it is being heralded as? To what extent will it change our societies? How will it affect work practices and workers?