Capitalism
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Why they hate Gary, Indiana
For generations, the rule for Black workers in the United States has been “last hired, first fired.” In the Black city of Gary, Indiana, it’s now “the last place where the lights came back on.” Continue reading
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Climate communication is irrationally hopeful. We need to tell the truth about the Great Unraveling
Theresa Leisgang spent over ten years reporting on environmental and human rights issues as a journalist, travelling for magazines and researching for her book, in places where the effects of the climate crisis are already an existential threat to livelihoods. She has interviewed people from the Amazon region to the Arctic, from South Africa to eastern Brandenburg,… Continue reading
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Capitalist climate crisis drives deadly Himalayan glacier collapse
At about 9 a.m. on Aug. 26, a mass of ice and rock broke loose from the north face of Langtang Lirung, about 17,000 feet above sea level on the Nepal-China border. Hydrologists described the flow as liquid concrete. It covered its first 14 miles at an average speed of 120 miles per hour. Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: Trump’s Sanctions Are Deepening The Dollar Crisis | GEH w/ Radhika Desai
Hello and welcome to another Geopolitical Economy Hour, the socialist and anti-imperialist conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our times. You’re watching Geopolitical Economy Hour, and I’m Radhika Desai, geopolitical economist. Today’s show is one of my fortnightly conversations with Professor Michael Hudson, who you see here. Welcome, Michael. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: July 2026
Wednesday, 29 July 2026 — Climate & Capitalism New books on denial, green colonialism, wildfires, energy, the far right, global crises and our ties to nature Ecosocialist Bookshelf is hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with… Continue reading
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The Carbon Footprint Scam
Corporate Greenwash Focusing on working people’s consumption diverts attention from the real climate criminals Continue reading
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Stay out of the heat, officials said. The apps sent workers into it
In the first week of July 2026, a heat dome settled over the central and eastern United States. Heat indexes reached 115 degrees. More than 185 million people were under heat alerts, and more than 30 people died before the heat broke. The real count will rise, because heat often kills through the heart, kidneys… Continue reading
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The Ghost at Mount Rushmore: Why the American Ruling Class Still Fears Communism
Why does, over thirty years after the Soviet collapse, anti-communism remain the ruling class’s last refuge — and that tells us everything about their fear. Continue reading
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Economic Rent Extraction
In the 1800s, economists such as Ricardo (see Principles of Political Economy & Taxation) and George (see Progress and Poverty) identified economic rent-seeking, the earning of excess profits from the ownership of land and natural resources, to be a very major problem for any economy. These profits were not from a productive activity but rather… Continue reading
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China puts gig-app algorithms on the bargaining table
Meituan and Ele.me delivery riders in China. New central guidelines open the platform algorithms that assign their orders, set their delivery clocks and dock their pay to union scrutiny. Continue reading
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Wall Street record highs rest on AI bets, paper wealth and war
Wall Street hit a new peak at the start of June. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs on June 2, after all three major indexes set records together the day before. Wall Street called it good news. For workers, it is a warning. Continue reading
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New on Climate & Capitalism – Ecosocialist Bookshelf: May 2026
Ecosocialist Bookshelf is hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) it says. Climate & Capitalism has received review copies of some of these books, but we do not receive any payment for… Continue reading
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AI Isn’t Taking Your Job. Your Boss Is Using AI To Take Your Job
The most dangerous lie about AI is that workers are being replaced by technology. They are not. They are being replaced by management decisions disguised as technology. Continue reading
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Corporate Watch Newsletter: May Day Newsletter and Corporate Watch Highlights
Spring is well and truly here, and we realise that an update from us is long overdue. So here’s a brief round up of some of the things we’ve been up to so far this year. Continue reading
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Palantir and the Digital Leviathan: Silicon Power, State Violence, and the Technofascist War on Humanity
A manifesto appears, and the media rings the alarm—yet stops short of naming the system that produced it. Beneath the controversy lies a vast machinery linking deportation databases, battlefield targeting, and corporate-state integration into a single infrastructure of control. What looks like a rogue tech firm is in fact the polished interface of a deeper… Continue reading
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New on Climate & Capitalism – Ecosocialist Bookshelf: April 2026
Ecosocialist Bookshelf is hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) it says. Climate & Capitalism has received review copies of some of these books, but we do not receive any payment for… Continue reading
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Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System
Like an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System (Monthly Review Press) builds on Karl Marx’s insight that while capitalism is dependent on the natural world, it is also waging war on the natural systems… Continue reading
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The Capitalist END of the West: Iran Destroys US Plans | Dr. Radhika Desai
The illegal attack on Iran—as many illegal wars before—is not a bug but a system feature. One, however, that is doomed to self-destruct its host. It is the inevitable outcome of the rent-seeking and society corrupting logic of the capitalist system the West is built around. The expansionary and often genocidal logic embedded in the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 