Berliners Vote to Expropriate Corporate Landlords
Berlin’s referendum to expropriate corporate landlords is a watershed moment for rental politics and a rare win against international real estate capital.
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Cuba Accelerates Vaccine Drive
Cuba has now become the first country in the world to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for children as young as two, and is among the few countries worldwide to be vaccinating under 12-year-olds. By the end of the year the island will be among the first countries in the world to fully vaccinate its population.
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Overcoming Inequalities: A Conversation with Otro Beta
Otro Beta is a cultural project that seeks to bring the Venezuelan barrio youth away from the dead-ends that capitalism imposes on them. It aims to incorporate them into the new horizons of personal and collective development that the Bolivarian Revolution has opened up.
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Penetrating Curtains of Deceit: I.F. Stone’s ‘The Hidden History of the Korean War’
The eruption of full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula advanced U.S. geopolitical interests and those of its key Asian clients; it also provided the pretext for President Truman to quadruple the military budget and create a militarized economy and foreign policy that remain with us to this day.
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The Pandora Papers Reveal How the Super-Rich Shaft the Rest of Us
A just-released “Panama Papers on steroids” show how the US has become a major tax haven and destination for illicit wealth.
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Imperialism and its Discontents
The U.S. and its proxies have been defeated in countries such as Vietnam, Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere. And now they have been defeated in Afghanistan. These defeats are significant events, but we are far from an end to the epoch in human history that began in 1492.
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The Human Costs of iPhones
The iPhone is a technological wonder. Yet, how many of us users ever ask what are the conditions under which these iPhones are produced? What are these conditions doing to China’s workers, who assemble such wonderful instruments?
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What Is to be Done About Work?
A review of three important books that examine work and its discontents, in pre-pandemic form, including questions related to job satisfaction, inadequate compensation, long hours, and morally injurious employment.
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Capitalism | China | Economy | Online Blog | World Economy | World Politics
China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles
With China’s increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. However, the Chinese are acutely aware that with Western investment comes inequality. This interview examines the steps Beijing is beginning to take to tackle this.
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Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | People's movements | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Nepal’s People Resist U.S. Anti-China Alliance
Continuous protests shook the length and breadth of mountainous Nepal in September as the U.S. pushed again to chain this Asian country of 28 million people to its anti-China alliance through the Millenium Challenge Compact (MCC).
