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Trump 2.0 and China – the real situation of the U.S. economy
To then ascertain which policies would be necessary to speed up the U.S. economy it is necessary to analyse the underlying relation between changes in the structure of the U.S. economy and changes in U.S. GDP growth rates.
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Israel and the Arabs: From “zero distance”
The term ‘zero distance’ became famous after it was used by Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza to illustrate the strength and courage of Palestinian resistance in the face of Israeli tanks.
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U.S. militarism and the sexual colonization of women
Karl Marx wrote, “Prostitution is only a specific example of the general prostitution of the laborer.”
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Understanding Project Esther
This Purim, as Jews around the world tell the story of Queen Esther, we must also tell the story that Project Esther plans on carrying out. This Christian Nationalist plan intends to squash the Palestine solidarity movement, crack down on free speech and academic freedom, and deport those who speak out against Israeli apartheid.
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The Oval Room, Kyiv and the Kremlin: Berlin Bulletin No. 232, March 14, 2025
Some world events can look different to those of us onthis side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at what Trump, Vance and Musk are doing and planning. Nor do I love Putin. But what I hate above all else is war—and is closer over here. I’m […]
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Gaming Money with Raúl Carrillo
Money on the Left speaks with Raúl Carrillo, assistant professor of Law at Boston College, about gaming money. In this episode, we explore how companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Roblox are not only harming gamers but issuing “shadow money,” evading banking regulations meant to prevent structural problems.
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Dossier no. 86: Imperialist War and Feminist Resistance in the Global South
In the Global South, women creatively resist the impact of unilateral coercive measures, a form of hyper-imperialist hybrid warfare that reinforces patriarchy and other forms of social discrimination.
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Harry Magdoff Memorial Library: The Hidden Library of Marx, Lenin, and Mao in Kathmandu
In the basement of Helping Hands Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, there is a meeting room. Its left and right sides are lined with stacks of large books, some with torn covers. These are rare books about Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and others. They sit like prisoners, yearning for readers to set them free. The place is known as Harry Magdoff Memorial Library.
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Trump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda
The Trump-orchestrated blitzkrieg exposition of a Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda raises a series of questions, including: What are the internal contradictions within the US ruling class that have given rise to recent developments? What are the underlying changes within the base and superstructure of the United States? What are the long-term ideological and political consequences on US foreign policy? How should the Global South respond?
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Condemn and Counter U.S. Imperialist Aggression and War in the Philippines
This month marks the 126th anniversary of the Philippine-American war and the start of U.S. imperialist domination in the Philippines. We call on all friends of the Filipino people and struggle to expose the ongoing U.S. imperialist war in the Philippines and counter it with all our might.
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Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025
For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back!
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The Woman’s Story: Examining Pregnancy Narratives, Bodily Autonomy, and the Invisible Woman through Kalki Koechlin’s The Elephant in the Womb
Kalki Koechlin’s memoir presents a real and uncensored picture of pregnancy that explores how pregnant women’s bodies are positioned between the public and personal threshold.
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Dossier no. 85: The joy of reading
Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.
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Sociology world mourns after hit-and-run driver on Grand Avenue kills legendary labor scholar
Michael Burawoy was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.
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Odious Debt with Edward Jones Corredera
Money on the Left speaks with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024). What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Odious Debt shows how Latin American nations have wrestled with the morality of indebtedness and insolvency since their foundation, and outlines how Latin America’s forgotten history of contestation can shed new light on seemingly intractable contemporary dilemmas.
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USA Israel Germany: Berlin Bulletin No. 230, January 31, 2025
2025 started off with many a bang.
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The life expectancy of Palestinians fell by 11.5 years in the first three months of the genocide: The Fifth Newsletter (2025)
The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.
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The Aroztegia Development Project, an “Urban Pelotazo”: Real Estate Jackpot
In the Basque Country, land is being expropriated in order to build a luxury hotel and seven people are scheduled to got to trial, facing a sentence of twenty years in jail and 43 million euros in damages. Once again, Spanish authorities are trying to criminalize popular protest. Read more about the movement and how you can help.
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Neofascism in the White House
In this republished essay from 2017, John Bellamy Foster discusses how U.S. neofascism in certain ways resembles the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but with historically distinct features specific to the political economy and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.
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UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. This manufactured crisis, however, is far from inevitable. The time has come to revitalise higher education funding in the UK by extending what Cornell legal scholars Robert Hockett and Saule Omarova call ‘the finance franchise’ to universities.