Subjects Archives: Class

The world’s richest 1% own 43% of global financial assets, and the wealth of the top five billionaires has doubled since 2020, while 60% of humanity got poorer, according to a report by Oxfam.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is the ruling-class Comic-Con, a fantasy fortress where the 1 percent’s 1 percent can save the world that they are sending to hell.

The extent of the mass grave became widely known after a Black man was run over by a police vehicle and buried in an unmarked grave, unbeknownst to his family.

Whether you’re reading the news or watching a movie, you are likely to encounter some form of warning or buzz about AI.

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.

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.

The Class Matrix concisely and systematically argues the case for the continued importance of class for the radical left today. Vivek Chibber rigorously debunks various long held understandings that characterise radical left thought since the cultural turn.

Clarke: The social and economic consequences of climate change will play out along deeply entrenched fault lines of inequality

The culture wars are back with a vengeance, if they ever actually left us.

The document indicates that the villa was purchased by Zelenskyy’s mother-in-law in May 2023. According to the document, the price of the villa is 150,000,000 Egyptian pounds or approximately $4,850,000.

As of this writing, Trump is already facing charges (34) in a Manhattan, New York court for an alleged business fraud related to the payment to an adult film actress (avoiding to say pornographic), in order to avoid an incriminating action. Additionally, he was indicted from two investigations in Florida for the mishandling of classified documents, adding another 40 charges.

The gigantic question is, is there a way out? It gets harder everyday with the kind of blatantly divisive social atmosphere which is promoted by the powers that be.

Aristotle famously starts his Metaphysics with the claim that “all men by nature desire to know.” For Dubois, if there are a people in the U.S. who have immaculately embodied this statement, it is black folk.

Since the earliest days of the industrial revolution, workers have fought company owners over their use of automated machinery to step up the pace of exploitation.

A recent Essential poll found that 79 percent of Australians believe social classes still exist in Australia. This is unsurprising, given the distribution of wealth. For example, the Australia Institute’s Inequality on Steroids report estimates that the top 10 percent of Australian income earners received 93 percent of the benefits from all economic growth in the decade from 2009 to 2019.

Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women. 

CNN has joined the media chorus decrying the death of San Francisco with a one-hour special.

There are many common interests that can bring Russian and Ukrainian soldiers together in fighting for a more just and equal world.

The United States is in the midst of a severe housing crisis that is of its own making. This crisis results from several generations of awful housing policies, some of which date back a half century to the Nixon Administration (1968-1973). 

In the first of three extracts from his new book, Radical Chains, Chris Nineham asks why the establishment is so desperate to suppress the very idea of class.