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Giant mobile billboard campaign for Julian Assange goes viral and will keep on truckin’ round the Nation’s Capital
What started as a one-man “shame-on-you” protest against the Justice Department—launched by comedian-activist Randy Credico—has gone viral as “Buy-a-Billboard-for-Julian” Campaign supported by activists worldwide. Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Ben Cohen, pledged: “I’ll Match Each and Every Donation to The Julian Assange Mobile Billboard Campaign”
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Life expectancy and human development in the 21st century
Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development.
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Background checks, algorithms, and the re-making of the abnormal
A great deal of attention has been paid to the problems of carceral injustice and the increasing use of AI for things such as predictive policing.
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Energy, cost of living and recession
The G7 governments have a problem.
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1980s’ redux? New context, old threats
As rich countries raise interest rates in double-edged efforts to address inflation, developing countries are struggling to cope with slowdowns, inflation, higher interest rates and other costs, plus growing debt distress.
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A “lost decade” for developing countries?
Developed countries use 3.5% of their income to pay interest on their debt, while developing ones must use 14%, which complicates their situation.
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The meaning of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’
A key concept in Karl Marx’s Capital is widely misunderstood.
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What is Socialist Feminism?
In remembrance of Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022), we are reposting this article, which first appeared in WIN magazine on June 3, 1976, and then published in Monthly Review in 2005 (Volume 57, Issue 03).
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Controlling inflation at the expense of working class
ECONOMISTS distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”.
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What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise
Alun Hubbard: “As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes.”
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‘Dangerous heat waves’ to be more frequent and more sustained in near future
Dangerous heat waves to hit three times more often than today; tropical regions including India likely to face extreme heat conditions almost daily by the end of this century.
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Capitalism created the climate catastrophe; Socialism can avert disaster: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)
In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference.
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Capitalism won’t fix the climate crisis. It will also not survive it
McGuire: Around 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere in the last couple of centuries. This is acting as a blanket, keeping in heat that would otherwise head off into space.
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Double meaning of Global Values
The basic justification of every policy of the West is the ideology of ecumenism the West is projecting, full of complacency and arrogance. However, it is a false ecumenism, as it corresponds only to the narrow interests of the Western ruling classes, not the interests of humanity, writes Valdai Club expert Dimitris Konstantakopoulos. This article was written as a follow-up to the author’s presentation at the expert discussion “The Global Ideological and Spiritual Landscape and Russia’s Place on the New Values Map of the World”.
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Journalists who challenge NATO narratives are now ‘information terrorists’
We will have to answer to the ‘law’ as ‘war criminals’
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How Marxists brought science to politics and politics to science
From Marx and Engels to the present day, socialists have been deeply engaged with the world of science. With the provision of lifesaving vaccines held hostage by corporate profiteering, the story of this relationship is more important than ever.
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Ecosocialism in a radicalizing Climate Justice Movement
In this debate we had an introductory conversation about ecosocialism, the climate justice movement, what role they can play together and what programs and alliances they can create for this historical moment.
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Sweatships on troubled waters
Luxury cruises are an expression of capitalism’s worst instincts.
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An engineered food and poverty crisis to secure continued U.S. dominance
In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine.
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How capitalism—not a few bad actors—destroyed the Internet
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.