Faced with China’s rise, Western states are turning from free trade dogmas to active industrial policies. This turn may offer opportunities for labor — but as the electric auto industry shows, it is also producing a harmful logic of national rivalri
The successes achieved by the USSR thanks to the socialist revolution of 1917 were undone by the counter-revolution of 1991 as Russia returned to its past.
This week: left economists cut through the baloney, rumblings of general strike, and a guide to wrecking your party
A left stronghold? An alternative exploiter? The discussion continues
Many social scientific analyses of the global political economy...are race neutral or willfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. If they do address... colonialism, they ignore embedded racial logics of oppression.
Has the Real "Thief" Finally Been Unmasked?
The lessons of the Pink Tide of leftist and leftish governments in Latin America that marked much of the period following 1998 but were undone by rightist movements, US meddling, world economic crisis and internal weaknesses are aptly told....
The way out is nothing short of birthing a world (or perhaps more along the lines of returning back to Earth). It will also help solve—sleeves rolled up—many of our most pressing problems.
We talk with historian Eugene McCarraher about the myths and rituals of the market, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the rise of neoliberalism.
Workers who make iPhones in the 21st century are twenty-five times more exploited than textile workers in England in the 19th century.
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