The irony of faith in blind markets

A network of cooperative alternatives are replacing rampant exploitation with decent work.

Samir Amin, who was a leading Marxist analyst of African underdevelopment, capitalism and globalisation, passed away in August 2018. This…

One way or another, Google keeps pushing organizers out.

Reciprocal altruists, whether human or ape, reward those who cooperate with others and punish those who defect. A commons works the same way.

Although neoliberalism is widely recognized as the central political-ideological project of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is a term that is seldom uttered by those in power.

In 1980s Britain, miners went on strike in support of nurses’ pay claims, throwing their industrial muscle behind under-pressure hospital staff. After decades of harsh anti-union laws, Labour’s manifesto promises a way to rebuild this culture of solidarity.

Tariffs and other forms of protectionism often hurt workers — and trade can help produce good paying, sustainable jobs. But we need to build a trade policy that benefits both US workers and workers in developing countries.

✑ Paul Cockshott. Could a planning system work in a modern economy with a highly diversified product range? I and others have since the late 80s been arguing that the answer is yes.

November 5, 2019, is the 225th anniversary of the acquittal of Thomas Hardy on charges of High Treason. Hardy is nearly forgotten today, but for decades workers and democrats in England celebrated…

We are seeing today what appear to be the beginnings of an ecological revolution, a new historical moment unlike any humanity has experienced. Not only is the planet burning…

Whatever government is formed in the UK after the 12 December election, it faces an immense challenge.  The British economy is in a mess and its society is riven with division. After ten years of a…

Bong Joon Ho’s film Parasite has been hailed for highlighting the class divides that split South Korean society. But its portrayal of working-class life also demonstrates a deeper ill of capitalism — the way in which the constant hunt for a job undermines…

By Todd Gordon, (originally posted here)

The last several decades has witnessed a sharp increase in legally unfree or coerced labour in the Global North and Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

Sectors such as agriculture, construction, caregiving, truck…

For socialists, establishing popular confidence in the feasibility of a socialist society has become an existential challenge. Without a renewed and grounded belief in the possible functioning of socialism, it’s near impossible to imagine reviving and sustaining…

What should we do about Google, Facebook, and Amazon? Here’s a democratic-socialist blueprint to decommodify and democratize the internet.

Beginnings can always be very problematic especially if the project – or one project among many – is to trace…