The Future of Work
Three-part article on the future of work since the pandemic slump: Remote Working; Working Long and Hard; and Automation.
Understanding Maduro’s Successful Socialist Economic Strategy
After years of calling Venezuela’s economy a dismal failure that demonstrates the dangers of socialism, Western media is now lauding its recovery for ’embracing capitalism’ — but this is not accurate.
The Nobodies Take Office in Colombia: An In-Depth Analysis
People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.
South Africa Is on a Knife Edge as Xenophobia Escalates
With no national force with the vision and power to offer an emancipatory alternative to the poisonous politics, sometimes with fascist elements, that turns neighbors against each other, the country is on a knife edge.
After Weeks of Protests in Panama Against Inflation and Inequality, People Win Significant Victories
Panama has been paralyzed by huge protests for more than three weeks. The uprising is rooted in rising prices and worsening inequality. Finally, in July-end, the government signed agreements to cap fuel prices, medicine prices and increase the education budget.
Capital, not Finance
Unproductive finance has been creeping into the Indian economy. The consequences are the aborting of the circuits of money and production and the employment of labor. The way forward is for the working class to lay claim to the mode and relations of production through socialist, secular, democratic means.
Indian Economy at 75: Trapped in a Borrowed Development Strategy
The growth at any cost strategy has been at the expense of the workers and the environment. The situation has been aggravated by the recent policy mistakes – demonetization, flawed GST and sudden lockdown. The challenge before India is not just economic but societal. Unless that challenge is met, portents are not bright for India at 75.
Mexico’s President Gives Joe Biden a Big History Lesson
Mexico’s President AMLO visited the US on July 12 and offered five proposals to US President Joe Biden. These proposals are based on AMLO’s in-depth knowledge of Mexican history and his reading of the economic crisis in the US, which seems to be losing its edge as a global leader.
Why Workers’ Wages Will Always be Too Low
Karl Marx gets you. In the mid-19th century, he argued that the whole working class is exploited by the capitalist class. The entire point of capitalist enterprise is to accumulate more wealth by systematically stealing a portion of the value workers create. This process is called exploitation.
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Why the U.S. Failed to Control COVID-19: Incompetence, Class Violence, Deception, and Lies
The United States is one of the worst countries in the world at controlling COVID-19, which has claimed more than one million American lives, and also caused enormous social and economic devastation in the country. This article examines the impact of U.S. anti-COVID policy.