Capitalism
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Class War Films presents Imperial Decay
All empires are evil; they are certainly undemocratic. Can the U.S. un-imperialize itself, or must it go the way of all empires? Collapse. Continue reading
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The Handbook of Karl Marx: profitability, crises and financialisation
The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, edited by Matt Vidal, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith and Paul Prew, brings together a series of chapters by prominent Marxist scholars covering all aspects Marxist theory, from historical materialism, dialectics, political economy, social reproduction and post-capitalist models. Continue reading
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What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?
The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses of people into action. Continue reading
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Climate Change is Class War by Jodi Dean
Contemporary capitalism presents a direct threat to the survival of most of the world’s species: climate change. The global capitalist economy is anchored in fossil fuels. Burning these fuels releases warming gasses into the atmosphere where they accumulate over time, raising the earth’s temperature. The rising temperatures have significant effects. For example, melting glaciers and polar… Continue reading
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LEAKED: UK’s new trade secretary met with US pressure groups to discuss weakening regulations
In ‘off the record’ meetings last September, Liz Truss sought lessons from Donald Trump’s radical program of deregulation and tax cuts. The new international trade secretary, Liz Truss, met with hard-right pressure groups in Washington DC last year to learn about the benefits of Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda, according to official documents obtained by Unearthed. Continue reading
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China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band–The Global Currency War Has Begun
Over this weekend, China’s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not purchase more US agricultural goods. The Trump-US Neocon trade strategy has just imploded. As this writer has been predicting, the threshold has now been passed, from a… Continue reading
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A life costs £10,000: how G4S’ Brook House detention contract works
In 2017, security company G4S was in the headlines again after the Panorama TV programme exposed new revelations of brutality in Brook House, one of two immigration detention centres the company runs for the Home Office. Two years later, the National Audit Office has published a report on G4S’ contract to run the centre. Continue reading
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The Citadels of America’s Elites: Fractured and At Odds with Each Other By Alastair Crooke
Something is ‘up’. When two Financial Times columnists – pillars of the western Establishment – raise a warning flag, we must take note: Martin Wolf was first off, with a piece dramatically headlined: The looming 100-year, US-China Conflict. No ‘mere’ trade war, he implied, but a full-spectrum struggle. Then his FT colleague Edward Luce, pointed… Continue reading
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S&P Bearish on 5G, Tesla’s Coil and the T-Mobile Merger By Renee Parsons
The FCC, the telecoms and cooperating MSM continue their resolute pr campaign to sell 5G to an unsuspecting American public as if the technology is up and running at effortless full capacity. The truth is that even as ‘spotty’ coverage is being established in large urban markets, the telecoms are well aware that there are… Continue reading
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UK housing crisis: 630,000 young people face homelessness in retirement By Alice Summers
Hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK risk homelessness when they retire because they will be unable to afford skyrocketing private rental costs. Continue reading
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Orwell, Hitchens, And The Hollow Self-Righteousness Of Anti-Communism
In addition to all of the propaganda pieces that anti-communists use to legitimize their position, they often utilize a more general rhetorical tool, which is the denunciations of communism that have come from two of the last century’s most prominent intellectuals: George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens. These figures maintain large cult followings and are widely seen… Continue reading
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At Least If We All Die the Capitalists Die Too
17 May 2019 — Anti-Capital [3 August 2019: I’m republishing this essay for those who have missed it because I think it’s really important to read given current events. WB] Broletariat When sunlight strikes the Earth several things happen to it. First of all, not all of that sunlight gets to the land and water… Continue reading
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War, empire and racism in the Anthropocene By Dr. Nafeez Ahmed
The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Continue reading
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Life Expectancy Falters in the UK Slow Death but Fast Profits for the Agrochemical Sector By Colin Todhunter
A special report in the Observer newspaper in the UK on 23 June 2019 asked the question: Why is life expectancy faltering? The piece noted that for the first time in 100 years, Britons are dying earlier. The UK now has the worst health trends in Western Europe. Continue reading
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The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift
Video: Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory, and a new generation to rediscover it in our time. Continue reading
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FIRST QUARTER 2019 REPORT ON THE RATES OF TURNOVER, EXPLOITATION AND SURPLUS FOR THE US ECONOMY
28 July 2019 — theplanningmotivedotcom USA first quarter 2019 report pdf (report) GRAPHS rate of exploitation & surplus value (spreadsheet) [I thought the following postscript to the USA first quarter report worth reproducing here. WB] A short note on the UK. “Levelling up” or an unguarded level crossing with a train approaching. As expected Boris Johnson… Continue reading
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20 Essential Books on Marxist Ecology (Updated)
27 July 2019 — Climate & Capitalism As the great American labor organizer and socialist Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones said: “Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.” by Ian Angus It’s two years since I published my last Essential Reading list. Since then I’ve received many suggestions for additions, and many new books have… Continue reading
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Poisoned for Profit: Whether in the UK or India, We Are Not the Agrochemical Industry’s Guinea Pigs
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Chemicals Regulation Division (HSE) in the UK claiming that the glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup has poisoned her nature reserve in South Wales and is also poisoning people across the UK (she… Continue reading
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As the ocean waters rise, so do the islands of garbage: The 30th Newsletter 2019
26 July 2019 — The Tricontinental The Thirtieth Newsletter (2019) by Vijay Prashad Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 12 July 2019, a twelve-year-old girl from Gresik (Indonesia), Aeshnina Azzahra, wrote a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump. The letter was delivered to the U.S. embassy in Jakarta and… Continue reading
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The world’s scariest economist?
Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world’s most influential economists, according to Quartz magazine. She has won many awards for her work. She is an adviser to the UK Labour Party on economic policy; she “has the ear” of radical Congress representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she advises Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Elizabeth Warren and also Scottish… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 