How Movements can Maintain Their Radical Vision While Winning Practical Reforms
Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
Japan’s Concealed Past, Condemned Future
Does the Japanese people’s deliberately induced ignorance of their wartime and postwar past “condemn them to repeat it,” this time allied to the US whose citizens, like the Japanese, have had the true nature of their own government’s wartime imperialism concealed from them?
How Did Amazon Workers Win So Big?
America’s wealthiest, most powerful, and fiercest anti-union corporation — with the second-largest workforce in the nation (union-busting Walmart being the largest) — lost out to a group of warehouse workers who voted to form a union, by a remarkable 2,654 to 2,131 on April 1.
Brazil’s Ex-President Dilma Rousseff: US-China Conflict Is Neoliberalism vs Socialism
President Dilma reiterates the need for Brazil to integrate with the rest of Latin America, to break its dependency on the US, to develop a truly sovereign foreign policy, and work closely with China – a country which is willing to work with other countries on the basis of equality.
The Myths of Capitalism
There is a pervasive view that growth under capitalism, though it may worsen poverty, even absolute poverty, to start with, eventually leads to a lowering of poverty. The experience of the English Industrial Revolution is invoked in this context. This entire view however is a myth.
The Enduring Importance of Eric Williams’ “Capitalism and Slavery”
First published in 1944, ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ is an investigation of the notorious relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the emergence of European industrial capitalism from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
Budget 2022-23 What Is in it for the People, Part V – Proposal for an Alternate, People-Centric Budget
If the government partially withdraws some of the concessions / subsidies / transfers of public wealth being given to the rich, and imposes some additional taxes on them, it can raise enough additional revenues to finance a big hike in its social sector expenditures.
Comments on War in Ukraine
To understand the origins of the New Cold War and the onset of the current Russian entry into the Ukrainian civil war, it is necessary to go back to decisions associated with the creation of the New World Order made in Washington when the previous Cold War ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Finland’s Education System Shows How Many Government Programs Can Work Better
Finland’s education system borrows the best from both capitalism and socialism. The government pays from the tax system, and the people, whether rich or poor, get the same education.
Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn’s Political Assassination
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article dissects various aspects of this campaign.