4 ChangeA Global People’s Bailout for the Coming Crash
Friday, October 19, 2018
Adam Parsons. When the global financial crisis resurfaces, we the people will have to fill the vacuum in political leadership. It will call for a monumental mobilisation of…
Iran Truck Drivers Go On Strike, Crippling Oil Infrastructure
Friday, October 5, 2018
Tsvetana Paraskova. Oil truck drivers in Iran have started a new strike demanding improved working conditions, and the industrial action has resulted in large lines forming at gasoline…
Gaza’s economy goes into freefall: World Bank
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Jonathan Cook. Posted on ZCommunications October 2, 2018. The moment long feared is fast approaching in Gaza, according to a new report by the World Bank. After a…
Squeezing Iran: Part two the Iranian perspective
Friday, September 28, 2018
Interview with Ardeshir Mehrdad. Mehdi Kia: In the first part of the interview[1]http://www.middleast4change.org/squeezing-iran-part-1-trumps-project-in-the-middle-east/we talked of the evolving line-ups in the Middle East in the backdrop of recent massive…
A new beginning?: The state of the global labour movement
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Marcel van der Linden. Traditional labour movements are in trouble almost everywhere. They have been severely enfeebled by the political and economic changes of the last 40 years….
In memoriam: Samir Amin at 80, an Introduction and Tribute
Sunday, September 9, 2018
John Bellamy Foster. Published by Monthly Review in 2011, re-posted by Middle East 4 Change as a memorial to Semir Amin who died on August 12, 2018. Samir…
The US-Turkey standoff in context: Global capitalism and the crisis of hegemony
Thursday, September 6, 2018
By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay. Posted on ZCommunications September 5, 2018. Source: Links.org Turkey was thrust into a full-blown currency crisis when United States President Donald Trump…
Asia’s Shifting Alliances in the Time of Trump
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Conn Hallinan. Posted on ZNet August 30, 2018. “Boxing the compass” is an old nautical term for locating the points on a magnetic compass in order to set…
Alfred McCoy: Will China Be the Next Global Hegemon?
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Alfred W. McCoy. Posted on TomDispatch August 21 2018. As the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency and sixth of Xi Jinping’s draws to a close, the world…
Turkey: Capitalism nurtured by the state
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Esen Eslu. Posted on Weekly Worker August 16, 2018. The downward spiral of the lira has meant that suddenly Turkey is headline news in the international media, as…
Turkey’s economy in full meltdown
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Michael Roberts. Posted on August 11, 2017. The Turkish lira is in total meltdown. It has lost 40% of its value against the dollar in the last six…
Can Freedom and Capitalism Co-Exist?: Book review
Friday, August 10, 2018
Chris Wright. Posted on Counterpunch August 7, 2018. Being run by business, American culture suffers from an overwhelming preponderance of stupidity. When a set of institutions as reactionary…
World trade and imperialism
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Michael Roberts. Blog posted on July 30, 2018. There is a new dataset on world trade that looks at changes in exports and imports globally going back to…
Localisation: A strategic solution to globalised authoritarianism
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Helena Norberg-Hodge. Posted on TNI Longreads. For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the…
‘The growth of right-wing forces is ominous’: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M. Posted on Frontline June 22, 2018. NOAM AVRAM CHOMSKY is one of the greatest intellectuals in modern times. For the past six decades…
Erdogan’s Turkey: an economy in deep trouble
Monday, June 25, 2018
Posted by Michael Roberts 25th June 2018. Turkey is a country of 80m people and 56m adults had the right to vote in Sunday’s general election. 87% of…
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor: Beyond the Rule of Capital?
Friday, June 8, 2018
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar. Posted on Monthly Review, June 1, 2018. In August 2017, seven months into the most reactionary U.S. presidency of modern times, Donald Trump ventured into…
Erdoğan’s ‘new’ Turkey: Purges and Paranoia
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Ella George. Published by London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018 The elections due to be held on 24 June, brought forward abruptly…
Revolution or Decadence? Thoughts on the Transition between Modes of Production on the Occasion of the Marx Bicentennial
Monday, May 7, 2018
Samir Amin. Posted on Monthly Review May 01, 2018. Introduction Karl Marx is a giant thinker, not just for the nineteenth century, but even more for understanding our…
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
Monday, April 23, 2018
The Communist Manifesto foresaw the predatory and polarised global capitalism of the 21st century. But Marx and Engels also showed us that we have the power to create…
Misrule of global capitalism: Book review
Friday, April 20, 2018
Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy: An American Crisis, Dale L. Johnson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 240 pp. $159. Published on New Politics volume 16, number 4, 2017. Reviewed…
The underlying reasons for the Long Depression
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Michael Roberts. Posted on February 14, 2018. There are two new mainstream papers out that offer some interesting analysis on the reasons behind the Long Depression that the…
How the Mass Media Misread the Iranian Protests
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Rahman Bouzari. Posted on Counterpunch on January 24, 2018. One of the largest social and political uprisings since the 1979 revolution in Iran has died down for now….
‘Socialism a necessity for human survival’ Interview with John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review
Sunday, January 21, 2018
John Bellamy Foster. Posted on Monthly Review, Jan 18, 2018.. Originally published: Frontline India by Jipson John & Jitheesh P.M. John Bellamy Foster, Editor of the prestigious Monthly…
ASSA 2018 – part one: globalisation, inequality and populism
Monday, January 15, 2018
Posted on Michael Roberts’ blog on January, 7 2018. ASSA 2018 is the annual conference of the American Economic Association, drawing together the economics profession in the US…
Protesters in Iran express outrage at economic conditions, a testament to a failed domestic agenda of neoliberalism and privatization
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Mohammad Tootkaboni. Posted on Left Voice, January 8, 2018. Over the past week, protests have erupted in the streets of Iranian cities. This might not be surprising for…
Iran protests: is this time different?
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
The protest movement that began on 28 December differs from those in previous years. There is universal recognition that the protests were triggered off by the worsening economy…
Global economics: Top ten posts of 2017: Venezuela, Capital and class
Monday, December 25, 2017
Michael Roberts. So what were the ten top posts in terms of viewings on my blog in 2017? The winner by some distance was my post last August…
A Looming Crisis for Turkey’s President
Friday, December 22, 2017
Conn Hallinan. Posted on Znet on December 21, 2017. Viewed one way, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks unassailable: He weathered last year’s coup attempt, jailed more than…
The GOP Plan Is the Biggest Tax Increase in American History, By Far
Monday, December 18, 2017
Ryan Grim. Posted on the Intercept_ on December 1, 2017 The tax bill moving its way through Congress is routinely referred to as a $1.5 trillion tax cut….