Solutions
Cédric Durand – Living Together
Durand attempts to find a middle ground for eco-socialism between eco-modernist and degrowth perspectives on the left. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben Wray
Climate Crisis
Julieta Perucca – Green housing threatens affordability. But it doesn’t have to.
Attempt to reduce carbon emissions from housing risk running into multiple ‘Yellow Vest’ moments unless housing is made a social good, not a for-profit asset. Julieta Perucca is an experienced human rights advocate, previously working […]
EU politics
Binoy Kampmark – “A Good Investment”: The Ukraine War and the US Arms Racket
The US military-industrial complex is making money hand over fist, but the American people are growing war weary. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Cross-posted […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project – In Bosnia and Herzegovina, platform work is taking-off but remains unregulated
The Gig Economy Project speaks to Amela Kurta and Ilma Kurtović, two of the authors’ of the first study of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s platform economy, about the emergence of gig work in the post-Soviet, post-war […]
Climate Crisis
Politico – France puts screws on EU chief to hit back against Chinese electric vehicles
Divides among European elites over what to do about the fact that China is miles ahead of Europe when it comes to electric vehicles. Read the article HERE.
Uncategorized
Branko Marcetic: Salvador Allende was in Washington’s crosshairs
Fifty years on, more details on the US role in overthrowing Salvador Allende’s socialist government are being uncovered. Among the latest revelations: Richard Nixon knew that the 1973 coup was going to happen days before […]
Solutions
Evgeny Morozov – The Santiago Boys
The Santiago Boys is a nine-part podcast about a group of radical utopians around Salvador Allende, Chile’s socialist president. Undeterred by the Cold War and machinations of their enemies and aided by an eccentric British consultant, […]
Solutions
Vijay Prashad, Taroa Zúñiga Silva – ‘Chile Needs a Communist Party,’ an Interview With Lautaro Carmona
Chile’s Communist Party, which is part of Boric’s government, is under vociferous attack from the right-wing press because it is increasingly popular. Taroa Zúñiga Silva is a writing fellow and the Spanish media coordinator for Globetrotter. […]
Climate Crisis
Macro ‘N Cheese – MMT and degrowth: with Bill Mitchell
When someone associates Modern Monetary Theory with left or right wing politics, they’re signaling they know nothing of MMT and are simply associating it with some of its proponents. MMTers are political, MMT is not. […]
Economics
Michael Roberts: IIPPE 2023 Part Two – China, profitability and financialisation
Is Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit still a compelling explanation for economic crises? Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog In the […]