Capitalism
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No Going Back – The COVID-19 Pandemic Theses
Public Reading Rooms is publishing these theses – on the pandemic, the nature of the crisis and the necessary next steps. We want to initiate a wide-ranging discussion on the left. Please send us any comments, thoughts or longer pieces to transform@prruk.org Continue reading
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Slavoj Zizek: May 1 in the viral world is a holiday for the NEW working class
1 May, 2020 — RT Maybe the moment has come to take a step back from our exclusive focus on the pandemic, to allow ourselves to consider what coronavirus and its devastating effects reveal about us as a society. Continue reading
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Annihilation Utopia
1. You’re heroes, don’t you know? You’re heroes for doing all the things you do when you’re scorned, ignored, mocked, abused, harassed, and exploited. Now you’re heroes for delivering food by bicycle, by cart, by hand; for delivering packages by truck or dolly or backpack. You’re heroes now for filling prescriptions; for selling paper towels;… Continue reading
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WATCH: How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health
1 May 2020 — Off Guardian Who is Bill Gates? A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert? Continue reading
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Is It Time to Launch an Investigation Into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Possible ‘Crimes Against Humanity’?
Occasionally, humanity is confronted with a series of events, oftentimes accompanied with tremendous human suffering, that appear to be so intricately linked and coordinated that to explain them as mere coincidence or conspiracy theory is not only reckless, but potentially criminal in itself. Continue reading
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Corporate Looting as ‘Rescue Plan,’ Robber Barons as ‘Saviors’
Framing a massive corporate bailout as a “rescue package” (NPR, 3/27/20) was a PR coup. Continue reading
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The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of A “Universal Lockdown”
First comes the farce, an (almost) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus, WHO named COVID-19. The decision for a global lockdown – literally for the collapse of the world economy – was already taken at the WEF conference in Davos, 21 – 24 January 2020. On January 30, WHO declared COVID-19… Continue reading
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The Models, the Tests and Now the Consequences
Since late in January the world has undergone staggering changes which in many cases may be irreparable. We have given decisions over every aspect of our lives to the judgment of tests and to the projections of computer models for the coronavirus first claimed to have erupted in Wuhan China, now dubbed SARS-CoV-2. With astonishing… Continue reading
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United States Imposed Economic Sanctions: The Big Heist
Since the start of the great recession in 2008 the U.S. has become increasingly dependent on the use of unilateral economic sanctions to achieve its policy objectives against its declared targets. Presently, sanctions impact one-third of humanity in 39 countries. Economic sanctions not only cause untold death and devastation to a given country by denying… Continue reading
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Why “Planet of the Humans” is crap
Mostly, Planet of the Humans is just so fucking bad. So bad that its good points are useless. It does have some good points–there seem to be a lot of rock festivals in Vermont that claim, incorrectly, to be running on solar. They totally deserve ridicule. But you would never recommend this film to anyone.… Continue reading
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Welcome to the era of the Great Disillusionment
This is a column I have been mulling over for a while but, for reasons that will be instantly obvious, I have been hesitant to write. It is about 5G, vaccines, 9/11, aliens and lizard overlords. Or more accurately, it isn’t. Continue reading
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How the poor die in New York
Van Dyke I is a series of 22 hulking brick apartment blocks in Brownsville, the poorest part of Brooklyn, New York. At least 10 people have died there from COVID-19, including a mother and son whose bodies were discovered only after neighbours reported the smell to city officials. There are no tributes to them, no… Continue reading
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When war looms, protect the truth at all cost
The tone and content of the accusations levelled by the imperialists at China has changed. From blaming China to now holding it responsible and demanding reparations, not for the deaths of its citizens, but as is the capitalist way, for their financial losses. The nature of these aggressive demands could lead to war. The purpose… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2020
25 April 2020– Climate & Capitalism Six important new books: The Return of Nature … Deaths of Despair … Rebel Cinderella … August Bebel … The Green New Deal and Beyond … The Triumph of Doubt Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link… Continue reading
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Britain: the capitalist press – “a great keyboard on which the government can play”
24 April 2020 — In Defence of Marxism Ben Gliniecki Image: Socialist Appeal This article was written before the coronavirus pandemic, but with the press spending weeks subjecting the Tories to nothing but uncritical “wartime” coverage, and now fawning over the establishment-friendly Labour leader Keir Starmer, the points it makes are more valid than ever. Continue reading
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The Greek tragedy: Act Three
On Thursday night, EU leaders again failed to agree on how to provide proper fiscal support for hard-hit member states to cope with the health costs of the coronavirus pandemic and collapse of their economies from the lockdowns. Continue reading
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Towards A New World Order?
While the lockdown is presented to public opinion as the sole means to resolving a global public health crisis, its devastating economic and social impacts are casually ignored. Continue reading
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Johnson to ‘seize NHS’ in bid to further privatisation ready for Brexit
By TruePublica Editor: There is a point when you read something and realise that all is lost. One Nation Conservatism is dead – they are no longer a centre-right political party but little more than a death cult. Their policies since arriving back into power after the Blair years has taken them back to a… Continue reading
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Five proposals for a better world after the pandemic
The following statement, signed by 170 academics from eight universities in the Netherlands, has been widely reported in the Dutch press, becoming a focus for discussion on how to avoid repeating past mistakes when in planning for the future. Continue reading
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Covid-19: Neil Ferguson, the Liberal Lyssenko
In the past, European political leaders yielded to the orders of their astrologers. Today, they refer to them identically to the statisticians of the Imperial College. In the past, the latter have provided them as much justification as they needed for their liberal hospital policy. Today, they predict millions of deaths without any scientific rigour.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 