Middle East 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Marx’s Ecological Education: Book review
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Martin Empson. Posted on Monthly Review April 1, 2018. Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capitalism, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (New York: Monthly Review Press,…
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…
Water crisis spurs protests in Iran
Friday, March 30, 2018
Posted on The Region on March 29, 2018. A number of protests have broken out in Iran since the beginning of the year over water, a growing political…
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…
‘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…
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…
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….
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…
Looming recession in USA and its social consequences
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Posted on Marty Hart-Landsberg blog on August 28, 2017. According to Bloomberg News, analysts at a number of major financial institutions see “mounting evidence” that a recession is…
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 Syrian Regime Capitalises on Property Destruction and Land Legislation
Friday, August 4, 2017
Jihad Yazigi. Posted on All4Syria on 27 July 2107 For decades, land and property issues have been a source of conflict in Syria. Over the course of the…
The reproduction crisis and the birth of a new “out of law” proletariat (an interview with Silvia Federici)
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Silvia Federici and Francesca Coin. This post first appeared on Left East on July 10, 2017. Feminist philosopher, political economist, and activist Silvia Federici on the transformation reproductive…
Donald Trump’s foreign policy: the “logic of an illogical mind”
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Interview with Ardeshir Mehrdad. Ali Damavandi: In part one of our interview (with Barabari TV) you covered the background to the ascent of Trump to the presidency of…
Davos: responsible capitalism
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Michael Roberts. Today, the global political and economic elite meet in Davos Switzerland under the auspices of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Every year the WEF has an…
Wage growth in Britain 1850-2015
Friday, December 9, 2016
Since the global financial crash of 2008, average real incomes in Britain have taken the biggest plunge since the 1860s, when “Karl Marx was scribbling in the British…