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The spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt warns that in 2023-2024, “all records of fiscal adjustment in the Global South will be broken”. He also affirms that “the IMF is much stronger than it was two decades ago.”
New US poverty data show a record jump in poverty. Poverty always increases when capitalism is in crisis. Also: “The U.S. is a Nation of Savage Inequality”.
Many of the accusations against degrowth have been answered. One accusation still seems to lack an adequate response: Is the US working class inherently anti-degrowth because it would mean a massive loss of jobs?
Capitalist agriculture is a failure. Market fundamentalists tell us incessantly that the “magic of the market” will ensure everybody has sufficient food. But then why is it that billions of people can’t afford food? It is precisely “markets” that are behind the huge numbers of people with insufficient food.
Historical materialism, in the dominant twentieth-century narrative in the West, is understood as confined to social sciences and humanities. However, John Bellamy Foster writes, Marx and Engels did not have such a limited conception, instead engaging with the natural sciences, providing insight into the dialectics of nature.
On how the privatisation of the water industry under Margaret Thatcher has led to excessive profits and dividends for shareholders, chronic underinvestment in infrastructure, rampant sewage dumping, and a problematic revolving door between regulators and the companies they oversee.
Many will argue that chemicals are needed to feed the population, but this is a false dilemma. Also: “Industrial Farming has Killed Billions of Birds”.
We survey the crisscrossing of classes across moments in the production and the circulation of the surplus. A unifying thread is proposed in finance capital.
Pakistan may have been saved, but not the people.
“Rising corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than spiking costs of imported energy”, wrote IMF economists this June.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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