Capitalism
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Video: The Anthropocene and Marxism Today
12 July 2016 — Climate & Capitalism Video: John Bellamy Foster discusses the theoretical and programmatic challenges that the Anthropocene, a dangerous new epoch in planetary history, poses for socialists in the 21st century. Continue reading
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East European Shoe Factories Often Pay Below Minimum Wage, Says New Report By Richard Smallteacher
Shoes labeled “Made in Europe” are often assembled in poor East European countries for ‘starvation wages’ according to a new research report from the Change Your Shoes campaign. The companies whose labor practices were examined include Ara, Bata, Deichmann, Geox, Leder & Schuh AG, Lowa and Zara. Continue reading
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Roger Dodger By S. Artesian
Cameron resigns, but not until October. Britain votes out of the EU, but not out until….well, nobody knows. Boris Johnson, playing Yeltsin to Cameron’s Gorbachev, pulls himself out of the race to replace Cameron. Farage pulls out because……well, because that’s what the British ruling class has perfected over the last 70 years of dissembling, and… Continue reading
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Video: Narrative of Brexit ‘Leave’ Voters as Racist and Anti-Immigrant Ignores Real Anti-Austerity Sentiment
Economist Michael Hudson argues that a vote for Europe is not a vote for socialism, but for a very right-wing, hard right, corporatist Europe where the laws will be made by bureaucrats acting on behalf of the large financial centers Continue reading
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Brexit and the return of European militarism
The European Union has responded to the UK referendum vote to withdraw from the EU, and the resulting intensification of the political, economic and social crisis of Europe, by calling for the militarization of the continent and buildup of its internal security forces. Since the announcement of the result 11 days ago, a number of… Continue reading
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The Silence of the “Progressive Left”: Brexit, Euro-Austerity and the Neoliberal T-TIP By Michael Hudson
What used to be a socialist left has been silent about the fact that there are very good reasons for people to say that this is not the kind of Europe they want to be a part of. It is becoming a dead zone. And it cannot be “democratized” without replacing the Lisbon and Maastricht… Continue reading
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Video: Will Brexit Lead to Grexit?
Dimitri Lascaris says so-called leftist or socialist governments throughout the EU are engaging in self-immolation by embracing austerity, and then become wildly unpopular with the electorate (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Brexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb By Ellen Brown
Brexit could trigger a $500 trillion derivatives meltdown, by forcing the EU to allow insolvent member governments and banks to write down debt. Italy is in financial crisis and is already petitioning for that concession. How to avoid collapse of the massive derivatives house of cards? Alternatives are considered. Continue reading
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Video: French Labor Law, Brexit, and Greek Austerity: Class War Against European Workers
Economist Richard Wolff says the old European elite believed it could fix their broken capitalism on the backs of the masses and that has proved to be a fatal mistake Continue reading
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In right-wing putsch, UK Labour MPs deliver overwhelming anti-Corbyn vote By Julie Hyland
The extraordinary scale of the right-wing coup, which had already seen Corbyn lose most of his shadow cabinet in a series of timed resignations, was intended to force the Labour leader to resign. But in a statement put out moments after the result, Corbyn said that he had been elected “by 60 percent of Labour… Continue reading
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EU leaders call for rapid British exit and European military buildup By Alex Lantier
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi met in Berlin yesterday to discuss Britain’s vote to exit the European Union. The leaders of the three largest euro zone economies held a joint press conference in advance of a two-day EU summit that begins today in Brussels. At the… Continue reading
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Oppose the coup plot against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn
The unfolding coup operation was instigated by a right-wing cabal of Labour MPs. But there is no doubt they did so only after discussions at the highest levels of the British state, including the security services—MI5, MI6 and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)—as well as with the US State Department and the CIA. Continue reading
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NO MORE AUSTERITY | NO TO RACISM | TORIES MUST GO
The People’s Assembly and Stand Up To Racism have called an emergency demonstration as the Tories face crisis following the referendum. Please do all you can to share, invite and be there! Continue reading
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Why the British said No to Europe by John Pilger
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media. Continue reading
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Brexit Backlash Against EU, Revolt Against Elites By Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers
26 June 2016 — CounterCurrents The globalized economy is not working for most people of the world. International trade agreements and new government structures like the European Union serve corporate power and put the people and planet aside to ensure profits continue to come first. They undermine democracy and national sovereignty, leaving people feeling more… Continue reading
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What Next? Post-It Series #3 By S. Artesian
This “mess,” this eruption of history, also contains class struggle. So the workers of Northern England, of Wales, of that portion of the “United Kingdom” asset-stripped, beat down, abandoned, zombified by banks and property speculators didn’t miss the opportunity to tell the too-clever-by half Cameron to “sod off” with his prospects for a “greater Britain… Continue reading
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What Next? Post-It Series #2 By S. Artesian
Logical question, not that anything at all has been accomplished, but still…..the votes are in and Britain, temporarily, has voted to exit the European Union. Temporarily…not temporarily the exit stuff; but temporarily the “Britain” part, because Scotland and Northern Ireland voted remain. So it’s England and Wales, or soon will be. Cameron and Osborne and… Continue reading
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Video: Can the EU be Reformed from Within?
Prof. Neil Davidson presents the left argument for why Britain should leave the EU Continue reading
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Brexit, Neoliberalism and the Eurozone: What Is at Stake in the British Referendum By Takis Fotopoulos
The reason the elites are fighting so hard against Brexit is because they know that a victory for Brexit could set in motion a domino effect that could demolish the EU. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 