4 ChangeAsia’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…
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…
Iran’s Labor Protests/strikes, Revolutionary Socialist Direction and International Solidarity
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Frieda Afary. Posted on Alliance of Middle East Socialists June 13, 2018. Below is the text of Frieda Afary’s presentation to a group of international labor activists on…
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…
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…
206 Global Companies profit from Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank
Monday, February 5, 2018
Juan Cole. Posted February 2, 2018 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Wednesday identifying 206 companies from…
‘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…
Capitalism unhinged: crisis of legitimacy in the United States
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Victor Wallis. Posted on Monthly Review online on November 28, 2017. Originally published: Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 31, No. 3 (November 2017) I I recall that in the…
Trump , Populism , Fascism , and the Road Ahead
Monday, December 11, 2017
Harry van der Linden Butler University, hvanderl@butler.edu. Interesting article published in: Radical Philosophy Review,Volume 20, Number 2, 2017: 355-365 During his election campaign, Trump promoted violence and appealed…
America’s Monetary Imperialism
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Michael Hudson. Posted on Information Clearing House on December 2, 2017. In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international…
Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2017
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Jean-Marie Guéhenno. Published in Foreign Policy . The world is entering its most dangerous chapter in decades. The sharp uptick in war over recent years is outstripping our…
A Visit to Heaven and Hell: Mapping Planet Earth: extracts
Monday, November 6, 2017
By Eduardo Galeano, Book extracts Published in TomDispatch, November 2, 2017 The following passages are excerpted from Hunter of Stories, the last book by Eduardo Galeano, who died…
India: how and why the poor don’t count
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Manali Chakrabarti. Posted February 21, 2017 on Redline. According to the World Bank, India’s nominal GDP crossed the $ 2 trillion mark in 20141, and is slated to…
Is the global economy about to recover from the long depression?
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The following is an extract from Michael Robert’s recent blog: Sunny period followed by showers, in October 2017. …. In an accompanying report [to Christine Lagarde’s report to…
István Mészáros: December 19, 1930 – October 1, 2017
Monday, October 9, 2017
István Mészáros, who died on October 1, was a close associate of Iran Bulletin and until it stopped publication was on the editorial board of Middle East Forum….
Are the economies of major capitalist countries picking up?
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Posted on Michael Roberts’ Blog on August 17, 2017 The latest economic data are showing that economic growth in the major capitalist countries has been picking up in…
Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State: Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother.
Friday, August 25, 2017
Alfred McCoy. First published on TomDispatch.com on August 24, 2017. [This piece has been adapted and expanded from the introduction to Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the…
Is Turkey the next country for a “proxy and long war” of the Transnational Elite?
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Ylli Përmeti, Posted on Pravda.ru on July 31, 2017. While Russia helped Ankara ‘without conditions’ during the coup – a massive fire exploded near the military base of…
Financial crisis ten years on: another slump on the horizon?
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Michael Roberts, Posted on Michael Robert’s blog on August 8, 2017. It’s ten years on to the day since the global financial crash began with the news that…
Financialization Has Turned the Global Economy Into a House of Cards: An Interview With Gerald Epstein
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
C.J. Polychroniou, First posted on Truthout on July 23, 2017. Contemporary capitalism revolves around neoliberalism, globalization and financialization, with the latter being the dominant force in this triad….
How the Pentagon Views the World Situation
Monday, August 7, 2017
Michael Pröbsting and Almedina Gunić. Posted on Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, 25 July 2017. The Pentagon recently published a major study reflecting how US imperialism views its own…
The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II
Thursday, July 27, 2017
John Dower. Posted on TomDispatch on May 17, 2017. World War II marked the apogee of industrialized “total war.” Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe….
Southern Insurgency: Challenging the narrative of working-class powerlessness. Book Review
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Book Review by Kyle Brown, International Socialist Review. Challenging the narrative of working-class powerlessness. By Immanuel Ness: Pluto Press, 2015 · 240 pages · $28.00 There is perhaps…
Marx on Immigration: Workers, Wages, and Legal Status
Friday, May 5, 2017
David Wilson. Posted on Monthly Review Volume 68 Number 9. On April 9, 1870, Karl Marx wrote a long letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt, two of…
The roots of sectarianism in the Middle East
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Omar Hassan. First published at Red Flag and appeared in Socialist Worker on February 1, 2017. It is nearly impossible to find a mainstream news report about the…
Introduction to Pambazuka’s Special Edition on the labour movement in Africa
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Shaun Whittaker. This article first appeared in Europe Solidaire Sans Fronitiers on 26 January 2017. In the face of multiple crises of profit-driven socio-economic systems that have driven…
Imperialism in the Twenty First Century: Book Review
Monday, March 13, 2017
Michael Roberts blog. A review of imperialism in the Twenty First century by John Smith, published by Monthly Review Press John Smith’s book is a powerful and searing…
Blood in the Water: the Trump Revolution Ends in a Whimper
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Mike Whitney, Counterepunch. The Flynn fiasco is not about national security advisor Michael Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador. It’s much deeper than that. It’s about Russia. It’s about Putin. It’s…