Capitalism
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The Indiscreet Charm of the Gilets Jaunes By CJ Hopkins
So it appears the privatization of France isn’t going quite as smoothly as planned. As I assume you are aware, for over a month now, the gilets jaunes (or “yellow vests”), a multiplicitous, leaderless, extremely pissed off, confederation of working class persons, have been conducting a series of lively protests in cities and towns throughout… Continue reading
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Who does Emmanuel Macron owe? By Thierry Meyssan
President Macron is often presented as a Rothschild Boy. This is true, but secondary. Thierry Meyssan demonstrates that he owes his electoral campaign mostly to Henry Kravis, the boss of one of the world’s largest financial companies, and to NATO – a considerable debt which weighs heavily today on the solution to the Yellow Vests… Continue reading
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France’s “yellow vest” protesters brave repression and mass arrests By Alex Lantier and Kumaran Ira
For the fourth consecutive Saturday, “yellow vest” ( gilet jaunes ) protestors demonstrated yesterday across France against the rightwing government of Emmanuel Macron. They did so in defiance of ominous threats of state violence and a massive mobilization of security forces. Continue reading
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Emmanuel Macron & the Yellow Vests Protests: A Lesson in How Not to Mitigate Climate Change By Andreas Malm
Capitalist climate governance has always relied on pseudo-reforms that leave the richest free to accumulate capital, while dumping taxes on working people to nudge them in the ’right direction’. But as the protests of the gilets jaunes show, many working people no longer accept the moralising terms of capitalist approaches to climate change. In this… Continue reading
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Still no justice as phase one of Grenfell Tower fire inquiry closes By Paul Bond
Almost 18 months after the Grenfell Tower fire of June 14, 2017, which resulted in the deaths of 72 people, the warnings of the Socialist Equality Party and the Grenfell Fire Forum that the official inquiry would be a whitewash have been confirmed. Continue reading
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Decimated’: Germany’s birds disappear as insect abundance plummets 76% by Morgan Erickson-Davis
Germany’s flying insect biomass has dropped 76 percent in the past 27 years, according to a study published last week in PLOS ONE. The findings have stunned biologists around the world and are prompting concern about potentially disastrous ecological consequences as another study finds the country lost 15 percent of its birds in just over… Continue reading
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Trump’s Trade Policy Towards China: A Distraction to Benefit the Rich
As stock markets around the world are reeling from contradictory Trump administration signals regarding US policy towards China, we look at: Who benefits? And: What would a better trade policy towards China look like? CEPR’s Mark Weisbrot and PERI’s Gerald Epstein discuss the issue Continue reading
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Jacques Ellul: A Prophet for Our Tech-Saturated Times By Andrew Nikiforuk
By now you have probably read about the so-called “tech backlash.” Facebook and other social media have undermined what’s left of the illusion of democracy, while smartphones damage young brains and erode the nature of discourse in the family. Meanwhile computers and other gadgets have diminished our attention spans along with our ever-failing connection to… Continue reading
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Problems of Value Production (1) By S. Artesian
In Marx’s analysis the commodity embodies and binds together time and space. The commodity possesses both physical and social characteristics, even if the commodity is provided as a service. The social existence is of time. The commodity circulates on the back of a mule called socially necessary labor time. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 5 December 2018: Bayer Slashes Jobs!
Bayer, the German drugmaker that bought U.S. seed company Monsanto earlier this year, announced on Thursday the sale of a number of businesses, around 12,000 job cuts and 3.3 billion euros ($3.8 billion) in impairments, Reuters reported. Continue reading
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French protests spark media demands for Facebook censorship By Andre Damon
Over the past three weeks, hundreds of thousands of people have participated in “yellow vest” demonstrations in France against social inequality and austerity, demanding the fall of the hated government of the banker-president Emmanuel Macron. Continue reading
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Senior MIT Scientist Warns 1 In 2 Children Will Have Autism by 2025
The overuse of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide on our food is causing glyphosate toxicity and it is now being considered as the single most important factor in development of autism and other chronic disease. At a recent panel discussion about GMOs, a senior scientist has stated that one in two children will be autistic by 2025. Continue reading
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The Holocaust and the Bush family fortune By Bill Van Auken
As George W. Bush delivers his eulogy today at the official “national day of mourning” ceremony in Washington for his father, George H. W. Bush—the culmination of five days of non-stop panegyrics and lies about the deceased war criminal and anti-working class reactionary—it is fitting that we repost a commentary published in 2003 dealing with… Continue reading
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Britain’s highest paid CEO built fortune on online gambling By Jean Shaoul
Years of preying on the despair of millions of workers have enabled Denise Coates, the CEO of the online gambling site Bet365, to not only become Britain’s most well-paid boss, but also the highest paid businesswoman in the world. Continue reading
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On The Road to a Post-G20 World By Pepe Escobar
The trade war launched by the Trump administration against China may not have been solved by a 2½-hour dinner between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump at the G20 in Buenos Aires on Saturday. But it may have opened a path towards a drastic realignment. Continue reading
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Capitalist Society Under the One Party of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum By Paul Haeder
That puking up barbarism phenomena in this enclave of genocide and perpetual war, resource theft and global toxification come in a coat of many colors. In the simplest terms I see it daily in my job as underpaid and spat upon social worker jiggering with the penury, punishment and putrefying systems of bureaucratic hell and… Continue reading
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How the West eats its children By Thierry Meyssan
For Thierry Meyssan, by taking to the streets, the French have become the first Western population to take personal risks to oppose financial globalisation. Although they do not realise it, and still imagine that their problems are exclusively national, their enemy is the same force that crushed the region of the African Great Lakes and… Continue reading
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The blueprint for dismantling the NHS By Youssef El-Gingihy
Nostalgia won’t save the NHS from the encroachment of market forces – only a broad-based mass movement can do that. Continue reading
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Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops By Colin Todhunter
Genetically modified (GM) cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. And like the Green Revolution, GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops should therefore be banned. Continue reading
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1 December 2018: Insurrection Day in the centre of Paris, Marseille and Avignon
The French Movement, the “Yellow Gilets” has been tirelessly demonstrating throughout France without a break since 17 November 2018. On 1 December, it organized its second national demonstration in Paris. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 