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Destruction of the Amazon Package approved with urgency
The Brazilian government remains firm in its objective of handing over indigenous lands, which make up 12% of Brazilian territory, to private hands, preferably agribusiness and mining.
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The enduring importance of Eric Williams’ “Capitalism and Slavery”
First published in 1944, ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ is an investigation of the notorious relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the emergence of European industrial capitalism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
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Socialist planning could reverse sobering findings in new UN climate report
The latest UN Climate Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability released Feb. 28 once again urges immediate action and outlines the catastrophic effects that humanity faces with the continued lack of meaningful action. Compiled by 270 researchers from 67 countries, it outlines the impacts that are already unfolding and how these disasters will increase even […]
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What is anti-capitalist feminism?
IWDA’s Content Coordinator Annelise Lecordier dives into the world of anti-capitalist feminism and shares the resources helping her learn more.
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Engaging Federici on Marx, Capitalism, and Social Reproduction
The discussion of Marx is embedded in Federici’s signature critique of the social reproduction of labor power in capitalist societies.
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MANN OVERBOARD – Review of Michael Mann’s ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’
Michael Mann is one of the world’s leading climate scientists, who has played a pivotal role in establishing what is happening to our climate and the forces driving that change.
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The capitalist imperative driving cruel and bipartisan U.S. migration policies
Capitalism’s need for labor is the determining factor in immigration policy. Its contradictions create a system that is consistently inhumane.
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Where did the Dependency Approach go?
Capitalism, it seems, had been deemed too messy a concept to provide much use to researchers in explaining phenomena.
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The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the “America COMPETES Act” passed in House of Representatives
On Friday evening, February 4th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022 (H.R. 4521). The stated intent of the legislation is to strengthen “America’s national and economic security and the financial security of families, and advance our leadership in the world.”
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Why capitalist governments worry more about inflation than unemployment?
Capitalist governments invariably seek to control inflation by enlarging unemployment.
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Capitalism: great for the rich, shit for the poor
Capitalism has generated the highest level of economic inequality in human history.
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The Left has culture, but the World still belongs to the banks: The Sixth Newsletter (2022)
Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. ‘[T]here is great intellectual poverty on the part of the right wing’, Héctor Béjar says in our latest dossier, A Map of Latin America’s Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar (February 2022). ‘There is a lack of right-wing intellectuals everywhere’. Béjar speaks […]
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Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom
It is official: we are getting ready for another round of industrial action in the UK higher education sector.
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Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Whither China?
A bimonthly podcast hosted by Professor David Harvey that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens.
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‘Look up’, Australia: How capitalism and climate change are turning our food bowl to dust
Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin—a contested history, published in September 2021, is a warning. State officials, politicians and agribusinesses risk turning Australia’s premier food bowl—the Murray-Darling Basin, which covers 14 percent of the Australian mainland—into desert.
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The end of growth? The capitalist economy & ecological crisis
Many ecologists, activists and academics argue that an obsession with economic growth is the cause of our current ecological crisis and a commitment to “degrowing” the economy is the solution.
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Spanish translations of pamphlets / manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Press
We are delighted to announce the online Spanish translations of pamphlets/ manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Essays. These pamphlets are parts of the series, Moving Beyond Capitalism – Now! and Thinking Freedom.
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In response to capitalist economic turmoil, war funding soars
On Jan. 24, stocks were falling, with the S&P 500 Index down 3.8%, the Dow Industrial Average down 2.7% and the Nasdaq Composite down 4.5%. The widespread sell-off for the Dow and the S&P 500 started on the second trading day in January; and for the Nasdaq in November. The Nasdaq is down nearly 20% from its high in November.
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Amazon and the power of big digital platforms
Platform power is often traced to markets, implying anti-trust action. The source, and the solution, lie elsewhere.
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How to overthrow a life-threatening capitalism?
Capitalism jeopardizes the survival of humanity on earth. It reduces the price of the labour of reproducing labour power when it cannot make women do it for free within the family. How can we overcome it while putting the defence of life at the centre of our concerns?