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  • West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin

    Inside the Democrats’ climate deal with the devil

    Originally published: openDemocracy on August 2, 2022 by Aaron White (more by openDemocracy)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2022)

    The new climate package furthers the U.S.’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.

  • NASA:JPL-Caltech:MPIA

    Why coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernova

    Originally published: openDemocracy on March 31, 2020 (more by openDemocracy)  |

    There is no magic money tree – the ‘rescue packages’ aim to rescue a rotten system, and won’t work.

  • May Day rally, Jakarta 2019 | Risa Krisadhi:Zuma Press:PA Images

    Outsourcing exploitation: global labor-value chains

    Originally published: openDemocracy on August 20, 2019 (more by openDemocracy)  |

    Through their control over supply chains, multinationals based in the global north exploit workers in the global south.

  • Image- Matthew Hamm, CC by 2.0

    Imperialism in a coffee cup

    Originally published: openDemocracy on July 16, 2019 (more by openDemocracy)  |

    Why is it that just 1p of a £2.50 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who cultivated and harvested the coffee beans?

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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