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Blaming China and other developing countries for climate change ‘is simply racist’
‘Time to call a spade a spade ….’
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Sweatships on troubled waters
Luxury cruises are an expression of capitalism’s worst instincts.
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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.
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Dr. Oz pushes Medicare privatization for all
The New Jersey TV doctor wants to privatize Medicare—and tax workers to boost the profits of insurance giants whose stock he owns.
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Climate change has long prompted migration, now it may drive anti-capitalist consciousness, too
U.S. government programs for migrants who cross the country’s southern border are punitive and disjointed.
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Class struggle or degrowth?
Without class struggle the emancipatory potential of degrowth will fail to be realized. A revolutionary pedagogy can help to unify them.
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With trumpian claims of cheating, Starbucks demands halt to union elections
“Unfortunately, it’s now in vogue for the losers of some elections nationwide to attempt to reverse elections by any means they think are necessary,” said Starbucks Workers United.
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Climate crisis poses stark choice: Socialism or Extinction
In his latest book, Socialism or Extinction: The Meaning of Revolution in a Time of Ecological Disaster, Martin Empson neatly lays out his argument as to why the climate crisis cannot be solved under capitalism.
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The Indian economy since Independence
The post-colonial state in India had two primary tasks before it: one was to overcome the hegemony of metropolitan capital, so that a development strategy in relative autonomy from imperialism could be pursued; the second was to attack landlordism both to free the agrarian population from its clutches, and to increase agricultural output for rapid industrialisation based on a growing home market.
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U.S. Senate targets Social Security and Medicare
Last week, Republican Senator Ron Johnson called for ending Social Security and Medicare as entitlement programs, instead transferring them into the discretionary budget where they would be gutted.
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U.S.-China chip war continues
As the tension between the U.S. and China mounts as a fall-out of Nancy Pelosi’s provocative Taiwan visit, the technology war between the two is also taking a new turn.
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Manufacturing consent: How the United States has penetrated South African media
As tensions between the United States and China rise, Washington is intent on contesting Beijing’s influence around the world, particularly in the Global South. The U.S. government has ramped up its efforts to influence international media and public opinion. In this new Cold War, South Africa is once again in the crosshairs.
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Marx’s ‘Capital’
Capitalism comes into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt”. So concludes Marx after a lengthy account of the transition from feudalism to capitalism near the end of Capital, Volume I.
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Inflation as a political power play gone wrong – Project Syndicate op-e
Pivotal economic crises frequently evoke multiple explanations that are all correct while missing the point.
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Rebuilding collective intelligence
Human capital theory cannot solve our economic woes. David Ridley says we need a socialist alternative.
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Why workers’ wages will always be too low
Do you ever feel undervalued at work—like you contribute much more than your pay packet suggests?
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Why progressives need to abandon means-testing and embrace universality
Universality must be at the core of any progressive electoral platform.
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Europe: caught in a trap
The major economies are moving closer to recession, if they are not already there; and yet inflation rates continue to rise (for now).
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“Neither liberal nor social democratic policies have a structured approach to understanding imperialism, including its ecological history”
Alejandro Pedregal – in conversation with Max Ajl
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Inflation and starvation
Capitalism is a system that has an innate tendency to get into a cul-de-sac of crisis, and the only way it knows for coming out of crisis is by further exploitation of the working class.