UN Labor Agency: Pandemic Job Losses Four Times Higher Than After 2009 Financial Collapse
The ILO estimates that the Covid-19 crisis caused a loss of 8.8% of global working hours in 2020—the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs.
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Wall Street Admits Curing Diseases Is Bad for Business
Goldman Sachs is openly saying in financial reports that curing people of terrible diseases is not good for business.
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Climate and Environmental Crisis: Sorcerer’s Apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
An analysis of what the World Bank and the IMF have done in connection with the environmental crisis and climate change, even as the crisis continues to worsen.
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Why We Can’t Give Up on the Idea of a World Free from Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear disarmament has a long history. In 1961, the U.S. and the USSR signed an agreement calling not only for “general and complete disarmament” but also that war should “no longer [be] an instrument for settling international problems.” Gone is that spirit. It needs to be revived.
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Defending Apartheid
In 2017 the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) issued a report on the conditions of Palestinians under Israeli rule, that concluded “Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.”
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Rosa Parks and Equal Rights
On Rosa Parks Day, February 4th (her birthday date), let us commemorate the courageous action to defy racism that she undertook. It is only fitting that we celebrate her deed since public transportation became a civil right in the USA due to the struggle she led.
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Marxism and Feminism
In this extract from Marxism and Women’s Liberation, the author discusses Marxism’s contribution to analysing women’s oppression.
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The Global Struggle for Bodily Autonomy
An examination of the different ways bodily autonomy is denied in capitalist society, the role of social reproduction in the oppression of women, and the fight for our bodies globally.
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Revisiting the Indonesian Massacres of 1965-1966
Of all the tragic events of the 20th Century, the 1965-1966 campaign of mass killing in Indonesia is among the least known in the U.S. Researchers estimate that the Washington-backed Indonesian military and its civilian militias killed up to one million people.
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Why Ecosocialism? A Discussion of the Case for a Red-Green Future
The author initiates a wide-ranging debate on the great transition from capitalist destruction to a just and sustainable future.
