Capitalism
The Washington Riot Was a Defeat for the Far Right, Not...
The riot at the Capitol on Wednesday was a symptom of right-wing weakness, not power. The real danger isn’t a MAGA coup, but a...
The United States Has Entered a Frightening Weimar Era
The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come
by Walden Bello*
Jan.7, 2021
By mid-February 2021, American deaths from...
Leo Panitch, intellectual pillar of the Canadian left, dead at 75...
Dec 22, 2020
Originally published: Alberta Politics by David Climenhaga
(December 21, 2020)
Leo Victor Panitch, one of the intellectual pillars of the Canadian left and a...
Mandel and Capitalist Breakdown
We reproduce here a quite interesting synthesis on the work of Ernest Mandel, one of the great Marxist economists of the 2Oth Century, although...
How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
by Ed Yong
Sept. 2020
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand...
John Le Carre describes drug industry’s ‘crimes of unbridled capitalism’ in...
May 2001
The pharmaceutical industry offers “the most eloquent example” of “crimes of unbridled capitalism,” and was thus the perfect subject for a novel, John...
“To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism”
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...
Covid 19 annonce-t-il la fin du capitalisme ?
Par Danielle RIVA
26 octobre 2020
« Cet arrêt brutal et assumé de la production provoque de tels changements – d’autant plus qu’il durera longtemps – économiques,...
Where Covid-19 Has Already Killed More Than One Person Per Thousand
By Eric Zuesse
originally posted at Strategic Culture
Nov. 16,2020
As-of November 15th, more than one person per thousand had already died from the Covid-19 virus (coronavirus-19)...
Identity politics, the far right, and masks
by Eoin McDermott
2nd November 2020
With the rise of the far right it is worth considering the issue of identity politics and the left....