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Stocks Fall, GDP Rises, Workers Always Take a Beating
Regardless of who wins the election next week, the economy is tanking. Rather than recovery, the pandemic and coming recession ... -
Explosions in Beirut: A Disaster in a Country in Crisis and Revolt
A double explosion devastated Lebanon’s capital on Tuesday. This disaster is a tragedy in a country which faces an economic ... -
Corporatism is a Feature of Capitalism, not a Bug
Capitalism inevitably leads to billionaires and large corporations dominating all of society, because it is a system designed to funnel ... -
Freeze Layoffs: Make the Capitalists Pay
As the coronavirus epidemic stretches on, working people are facing an economic collapse, the likes of which have not been ... -
Trotsky as a Guide for Analyzing the World Situation
Trotsky developed a method to analyze “capitalist equilibrium” and the perspectives for socialist revolution. This is a useful tool to ... -
Markets, Volatility and Crisis: A Conversation with Tony Norfield, Michael Roberts and Paula Bach
The swings in the stock markets in the United States, Europe and Japan this past week have reignited fears of ... -
The Problem of Reformism
Revolutionaries have classically rejected the reformists’ political method of relying on the electoral/legislative process and the capitalist state. Here is ... -
Day Zero is Already Here for Cape Town’s Poor
Cape Town, South Africa is experiencing a drought so severe that the local government has announced the city’s water taps ... -
Venezuela: Crisis Worsens After Controversial Election of the Constituent Assembly and Sanctions by the US
Between the farce of Maduro's constituent assembly and the shallow cries for freedom and democracy by the right opposition–no respite ... -
Power Cuts in the Gaza Strip, a Humanitarian Crisis
As the Gaza Strip moves even more rapidly than predicted toward becoming uninhabitable, its two million residents face an escalating ...