Middle East 4 ChangeIran jolts India to activate US sanctions loophole
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Kaveh Afrasiabi Earlier this month, authorities in New Delhi were rattled by reports from Iran that India had been expelled from a key investment project in favor of…
Sweatshops and monopsony power – a review
Friday, July 17, 2020
Michael Roberts ME4Change has posted this article because the condition of garment workers in the UK city of Leicester is replicated throughout the Middle East and to underline…
Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Iran is one of the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). What effects will the realization of the BRI have on the geo economical and…
COVID-19, Capitalist Crises, Class Resistance
Sunday, June 14, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic arrived at a moment of multiple crises of the capitalist system: capital accumulation, ecology, governance, and science. The uprising following the murder of George Floyd…
Why capitalism can’t cure global pandemics
Friday, June 12, 2020
We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the third plague” (because it was “the third major bubonic…
پاندمی کرونا، فاجعه زیست محیطی و سرمایه داری جهانی: یک پدیده در هم تنیده
Sunday, May 31, 2020
مهدی کیا Read Farsi translation of article in pdf format: https://www.rahekargar.net/theoritical_socialism/2020-05-31_206_mehdi-kia.pdf Translated in Farsi from:
China in the post-pandemic 2020s
Friday, May 22, 2020
Michael Roberts China’s National Peoples Congress (NPC) opened today, having been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The NPC is China’s version of a parliament and used by the…
The Coronavirus pandemic, ecological catastrophe and global capitalism: an interlocking phenomenon
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Mehdi Kia The Covid-19 pandemic has unravelled the close structural links between the climate crisis and the global capitalist mode of production.[1] See John Bellamy Foster and Brett…
Covid-19 and popular struggles of Syria
Saturday, May 9, 2020
I speak with Yasser Munif. He is a Sociology Assistant Professor in the institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College where he teaches courses about social movements, the…
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace Calculation COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus since 2002, is…
The Beginning of the End for Oil?
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Michael T. Klare Energy analysts have long assumed that, given time, growing international concern over climate change would result in a vast restructuring of the global energy enterprise….
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace This article is the Review of the Month for the May 2020 issue. The print version will carry…
Global economy: The ’emerging market’ slump
Friday, March 20, 2020
Michael Roberts Forecasts of a global slump in the rest of 2020 are coming in droves from mainstream economists – it’s now the consensus that there will be…
You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
Sunday, March 1, 2020
James Hamblin In May 1997, a 3-year-old boy developed what at first seemed like the common cold. When his symptoms—sore throat, fever, and cough—persisted for six days, he…
A global manufacturing recession
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Michael Roberts As we enter October, the global recession is with us – in manufacturing. The PMI manufacturing activity indexes for most of the major economies are below…
China’s Rise in the Middle East: Beyond Economics
Monday, March 11, 2019
Nicholas Lyall. The Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia and away from the Middle East, followed by current President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach, has seen U.S. attention on…
Global Economy on the Brink
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Jack Rasmus. At Davos, Switzerland every year the global capitalist elite gather to party…and to prepare for the year ahead. This year more than 1500 private jets will…
Iranian Revolution: 40 years of inequality
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Yassamine Mather. Commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the February 1979 uprising in Iran has been marked by dozens of scholarly seminars in Europe, numerous documentaries produced by…
Will Iran Sanctions Herald the Fall of the Imperial Dollar?
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Nicolas J.S. Davies and Medea Benjamin A shorter version of this article was originally published by The Hill. When the Trump administration unilaterally pulled out of the Iran…
Davos: climate change and rising inequality
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Michael Roberts. The two issues that the rich and famous in world capital like to discuss with wringing hands and weeping are: global warming and climate change; and…
Algeria: From the War of National Liberation to Gentrification:
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Conflicting Claims over Property in Algeria. Robert P Parks. December 22, 2013, 40 families living at 11 Boulevard de la Soummam — the Champs Élysées of the western…
What does democracy look like?
Friday, January 11, 2019
James Miler. “This is what democracy looks like!”—for some of us protesting Trump in New York on January 21, 2017, this was a familiar chant. We’d heard it…
Lessons to Learn on the 25th Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Hilary Klein Twenty-five years ago today, the Zapatistas rose up in arms. Twenty-five years – it’s hard to believe! It’s been many years since the Zapatistas were the…
Globalised Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco – Book Review
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Koenraad Bogaert, Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Koenraad Bogaert (KB):…
Understanding the global economy
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Michael Roberts. This year’s Historical Materialism conference in London seemed well attended and with younger participants. HM covers all aspects of radical thought: philosophical, political, cultural, psychological and…
Is the global economy heading for another recession?
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Michael Roberts. The mid-term Congressional elections saw a swing to the opposition Democrats in the Lower House and the Republicans were ousted as the majority party. This is…
The Crash That Failed: Book Review
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Robert Kuttner. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, by Adam Tooze, Viking. The historian G.M. Trevelyan said that the democratic revolutions of 1848, all…
On the Nature of the Chinese Economic System: Marxist Debates on China
Friday, October 26, 2018
Zhiming Long, Rémy Herrera and Tony Andréani. Posted on Monthly Review October 1, 2018. China’s ruling class admits that the capitalist private sector plays a very important role…
A 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…
The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Revolutionary Theories and Anticapitalist Dreams of Subcomandante Marcos
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Benjamin Dangle. Book Review: The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos. By Subcommander Marcos. Introduction by Nick Henck. Translation by Henry Gales. (AK Press, 2018)….