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As Covid-19 forces citizens around the world into lockdown and food delivery workers go into overdrive to provide relief to customers, a new report has shone a light on the poor working conditions faced by food couriers globally, as well as some of the steps that workers are taking to challenge (...)
Analysis of the current and emergent correlation of forces between US–China–Russia points towards a new era of one super-imperialist power coexisting with a triadic form of major inter-imperialist tensions.
The label ‘‘New Cold War’’ applied to the growing confrontation between the United States (...)
When Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of political news, the company’s engineers intentionally designed the system to disproportionately impact left-leaning outlets, effectively choking off their traffic in the process.
According to a Wall Street Journal (...)
Analysis of trade figures reveals huge power imbalance as suppliers and workers in poorest parts of the world bear cost of Covid downturn
Powerful US and European fashion companies have refused to pay overseas suppliers for more than $16bn (£12.3bn) of goods since the outbreak of Covid-19, with (...)
Ecosocialism and the de-growth movement are among the most important currents of the ecological left. Ecosocialists agree that a significant measure of de-growth in production and consumption is necessary in order to avoid ecological collapse. But they have a critical assessment of the (...)
From Trump to Bolsonaro, reactionary leaders are invoking a communism that no longer exists as a way of attacking the left
How can it be that a presidential election in the US in 2020 is being fought by the Republicans on the febrile ground of anti-communism? Trump claims that the Democratic (...)
Land rights, self-determination and sustainable resource management take on new urgency amid climate and Covid crises
Minorities and indigenous people are often among the most marginalised communities in many societies. Systemically excluded from participation in the socio‐economic life of many (...)
From corporate extraction for the few to an economy that works for all
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Oxfam International published Power, profits and the pandemic – a paper written by the organisation’s researchers Uwe Gneiting, Nicholas Lusiani, and Irit Tamir – on September 10, 2020.
It has been six months since the (...)
Seen from today’s perspective, with China modernising in leaps and bounds, leading the sectors of the future and confident in its own strength, it’s understandable that the Asian giant’s growth over the last 40 years is often considered to be the most dramatic transformation achieved in the (...)
The last decade has seen a rise of a new type of leader. In countries like Hungary, Brazil, the Philippines, India and the USA, strong men have come into power explicitly promising to “wage war” against elements of their own populations. In the Philippines this has led to a huge rise in (...)
Despite the obvious parallels with coronavirus shutdowns, states still show little determination to put in place the measures we’ll need to deal with the climate emergency. For Andreas Malm, we need to stop seeing climate change as a problem for the future — and use state power now to impose a (...)
The US is using methods of violence against domestic protests it has repeatedly used in its imperial adventures abroad.
As the world was gripped by the shocking scenes of police brutality against the Black community in the United States and the aggressive posture adopted by President Donald (...)
“Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its actions.” (Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish)
Because of the global health crisis related to the Coronavirus pandemic and its impact on people, governments have resorted to restrictive measures including state of (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed in stark terms the fact that our economies are built on the systematic exploitation of workers, whether at our local grocery store or in distant farms, factories and offices producing food, clothing and other necessary goods and services. These workers were (...)
Moving between the Russian, Iranian and Young Turk revolutions, cosmopolitan Armenians helped usher in the 20th century.
On a day like any other, in early 20th-century Tbilisi, the skilled bomb-maker Rostom runs into his wife on the street. Eghsapet, surprised by the sight of her long-absent (...)
In the era of widespread mobile telephony, we witnessed certain capitalist firms employing a sophistication of techniques to ensure the illegitimate debt of the lower classes.
Kenya, a country of 50 million people, is considered to be at the forefront of mobile telephony and digitalisation. (...)
Adjustment and austerity measures are often among the conditions associated with multilateral loans and have been widely recommended, advocated and even imposed, in recent years, by international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the IMF. The number of countries implementing austerity (...)
From bullying and sexual assault to squalid living conditions and forced labour, working at sea can be a grim business – and one deep-sea fishing fleet is particularly notorious.
On the night of 14 August 2010, the captain of a South Korean trawler, the Oyang 70, left Port Chalmers, New (...)
Austerity measures imposed by international financial institutions such as the IMF, regularly cause violations of human rights, says UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky in a report to be presented to the UN General Assembly in October.
“Even though austerity can be a useful tool of administration against the squandering of resources, it is essential to keep in mind that austerity impacts different social groups in very (...)
Trumpism is capitalism’s Plan B.
“I’ve travelled 24 hours, from Manila to Rio, to be here, yet politically I feel I haven’t left home.” Walden Bello, leading light of the ‘anti-globalisation movement’ and former Filipino congressman reflected on the rise of authoritarian right-wing ‘strong men’ from (...)
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