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Subjects Archives: Inequality
Venezuela’s Maduro proposes joint ALBA COVID-19 vaccination
The Venezuelan president announced a strict quarantine for January.
Becoming Kwame Ture
In Guinea, doors fly open at the mere mention of Kwame Ture’s name. A senior government minister met me within a few hours’ notice.
Canada is choosing corporate property rights over the health of billions
Unequal distribution means the poorest countries are getting trampled in the stampede for COVID-19 vaccines.
Lynchings by law
The U.S. death penalty has always been a symbol of white supremacy and a violation of human rights law. Having already executed 11 people this year, the Trump administration plans to execute five people (four of them Black) during a lame-duck session.
U.S. Embassy caught scrubbing Tweets urging Venezuelans not to vote
It is not clear why the embassy decided to go back and delete its posting history, especially as undermining Venezuela’s elections continues to be the official line of the U.S. government.
Resisting Amazon is not futile
Amazon represents the pinnacle challenge to union organizers and socialists throughout the country. Are we in a 1919 moment, still a generation of failures away from breakthrough success? Or closer to 1935, approaching the tipping point of winning real worker power?
How the rich are cashing in on pandemic pain
Millions of day labourers in India lost their jobs overnight earlier this year when Narendra Modi’s central government hastily announced a national lockdown.
Starmer’s purge turns against Palestine solidarity
The ongoing attack on the left in Labour is increasingly targeting those who are vocal in support for Palestine, writes Sybil Cock.
The decline of American Journalism
The media is driven by the enormous profits made during election campaigns. Feeding the fury and the fear of all types is just good for business. Bob McChesney joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
Silencing Black radicalism since the Cold War
Describing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as socialist and accusing them of fomenting disorder in America’s urban areas invoked racial disorder for the majority white voters who cast their ballots for an avowed white supremacist.
An icy rally with burning demands
The survival of polar bears, we know, is sadly threatened. The survival of a more colorful bear species seems assured. HARIBO (an acronym of HAns RIegel BOnn), which makes those little “gold bears” sweets, was founded in a laundry room in 1920.
Australia sabotaged its own interests in China relations
The destruction over the past five years of Australia’s mutually beneficial diplomatic and trade relationship with China was probably a successful “Five Eyes” information warfare operation, writes Tony Kevin.
Toward a critique of political economy
There is no necessary trajectory to Marx’s writings, no reason his earlier writings had to lead to or culminate in Capital. However, as we look back from the vantage point of his critique of political economy, we can see the ways his thinking changed and how the elements of that critique emerged.
Over 200 million workers and farmers protest against poverty and unemployment triggered by COVID Lockdown
The general strike occurred in the context of the devastation brought about by the coronavirus pandemic in India. Added to this are the millions of people who have lost income and who now face increased poverty and hunger, in a country where even before the pandemic 50 percent of all children suffered malnourishment.
Mészáros 90 – Eszmélet
The Eszmélet, a quarterly journal for social critique and culture will organise an international panel discussion on the occasion that István Mészáros, the great Marxist philosopher was born 90 years ago.
Study shows Blacks and Latinos make up bulk of temporary “Gig” workers
Eighty-three percent of blue-collar temp assignments are staffed by non-white workers in Illinois, a state where non-white workers are just 35 percent of the workforce.
COVID-19: Deadliest day recorded
The number of recorded infections now tops 14 million and the total official death toll stands at more than 274,000.
Ireland and U.S. Imperialism
When discussing Ireland’s role in imperialism today it is vital to highlight the role Ireland plays in assisting the U.S. to extract profits from ‘poorer nations’. That is to say nations that have abundant natural resources that the mass of the local population do not get to reap the benefits of.
A racist endeavor: Zionist Israel’s Black Jewish victims of color
Even when reports of its racism escape this ideological censorship, examples of racism in Israel are treated as isolated incidents, rather than systemic characteristics of the entire racist regime.
