The Lies and Secrets of French Imperialism
The coups in sub-Saharan Africa have opened a new era for the African peoples rising against French imperialism. It is not going to stop and will impact all of Africa and the wider world.
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“There Are Not Enough Leaders Ready to Stand Up to Debt Creditors”
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.”
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Capitalism | Economy | Online Blog | USA
Poverty in the USA – 2 Articles; Also: Poverty Is a Natural By-Product of Capitalism
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”.
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Degrowth – How Anti-Worker Would it Be?
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?
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The World’s Food System Brings Us Inflation, Hunger and Waste
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.
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Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism
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.
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Drowning in Dividends: The Failed Privatisation of Britain’s Water Industry
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.
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Time to Abandon Industrial Farming – Two Articles
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”.
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On “Awkward Classes”
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.
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Pakistan: The IMF’s Conditional Loan and its Cost
Pakistan may have been saved, but not the people.
