Subjects Archives: Inequality

It is common for governments these days to provide fiscal transfers to capitalists, whether through reduced corporate tax rates, or by providing direct cash subsidies, to encourage greater investment by them and thereby stimulate the economy. During Donald Trump’s first presidency there had been a cut in corporate tax rate with this objective in mind. In India the Modi government, as is well-known, has given massive tax concessions with the same objective.

As outgoing Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin embarks on his twelfth tour of the Indo-Pacific, the U.S.’s New Cold War on China shows no signs of slowing down, even under a second Trump presidency.

Māori MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke captured global attention with a powerful haka performed to protest the controversial Treaty Principles Bill.

After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality. It didn’t help.

Presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South”

Composing a history of Detroit is an exercise in tying together many economic and social trends within a microcosm of class, race, and fraught politics. Mark Jay and Philip Conklin’s work discusses the 20th-century history of the city to offer a documentation of class struggle seen through the industrialization of the city in the early 20th century, the racial tensions of the post-World War II period, and, finally, the simultaneous processes of decay and development in the last three decades.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza.

In his first meeting with a foreign head of state, President-elect Donald Trump hosted fascist Argentine President Javier Milei at a gala dinner on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside.

Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are a declaration of war against the entire working class. These choices are a domestic version of the Pentagon’s “shock and awe” invasion tactics and are meant to smash any opposition.

A new report from Britain’s Sky News provides details of Adnan al-Bursh’s death by torture in Israel’s Ofer Prison.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate crisis and puts marginalized people directly in the path of the destruction it causes.

The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed. 

The streaming giant’s move has sparked criticism from entertainment workers and activists.

The political philosophy of classical liberalism, which provided the basis for liberal political praxis, was sustained by a long tradition of bourgeois economic thought, straddling both classical political economy and neo-classical economics.

Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’–a right that is intimately tied to liberalism–cultivates a politics of anger.

Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like ‘UN Watch’, which have been waging toxic smear campaigns to silence her and to harm her human rights mandate.

“Every single Democrat who voted for this is not taking the threat of Trump remotely seriously and should be disqualified from any leadership positions moving forward,” said Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman.

Nizam Mamode, a retired NHS doctor who recently returned after working at Nasser Hospital, said he had ‘never seen anything on this scale ever.’