Economics
The CWU – The Union for Delivery Workers: Valentines Day video
Watch it, laugh, get angry, join a union and share
Inequality
Economics
Mohamed Gad – International finance and the commodification of electricity in Egypt
While international finance ensures the stability of the Egyptian energy system, it is also radically transforming a basic service into a commodity – and is often the first and the last voice shaping Egypt’s social […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Ukraine: trapped in a war zone
Ukraine is politically and economically a basket case, controlled by a corrupt oligarchy solely interested in extracting wealth and a political class keen on getting the crumbs that fall from that table. The only thing […]
Austerity
UCU – Ten days of strike action begins at UK universities
University leaders have ‘failed staff and students’, UCU said today as up to ten days of strike action began at universities across the UK over devastating cuts to pensions and deteriorating pay & working conditions. […]
Austerity
James K. Galbraith – The Fed’s Target Is Workers
By announcing forthcoming interest-rate hikes at a time when total US employment is still below its 2019 level, the Federal Reserve war on “inflation” is really a war on American workers. James K. Glbraith is […]
Economics
Patrick Kaczmarczyk – Clash of Nations
Patrick Kaczmarczyk’s book in German “Kampf der Nationen” (“Clash of Nations) appeared this week in Westend-Verlag . This is a short introduction by Patrick that vividly shows that competition of nations is a truly absurd […]
Economics
Joseph Stiglitz, Kevin P. Gallagher: IMF surcharges: A lose-lose policy for global recovery
The IMF has imposed significant surcharges on countries that have had to undertake large borrowings and are unable to pay their debts back quickly. These surcharges are pro-cyclical financial penalties imposed on countries precisely at […]
Climate Crisis
GPEnewsdocs – James K. Galbraith: Resource Limits to American Capitalism and the Predator State Today
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of US capitalism from an industrial state to what he calls a predator state: a finance-led, military-centered corporate republic that continues to prevail. To overcome it, he lays out […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley – Interest Rate Hikes Are Class War
Today’s right-wingers are hoping to solve the inflation crisis like they did in the 1970s: through hiking interest rates and suppressing wages. That’s how economists wage class war. Read Here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Bank of England Governor just didn’t go far enough
Bill Mitchell examines the policies of the Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey Read Here