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by David Bush | September 12, 2017 Recently I was interviewed on the Dead Pundits Society podcast about Basic Income. In the run-up to the interview a number of listeners had submitted questions about Basic Income. Some of these questions were skeptical of the critical appraisal of Basic Income which myself and others have put forward. While I touch on some of these questions in the interview, I think it is worthwhile to flesh out my answers because the so frequently come up. | September 12, 2017 On this episode, three guests provide some perspective on the politics and the economics of the Fight for $15. First, I speak with Jonathan Rosenblum, campaign director at the first Fight for $15 at SeaTac Airport, just outside Seattle, Washington. Next, I move closer to home and talk to Sheila Block, economist at the Ontario office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Sheila lays out the context for the $15 and Fairness campaign in Ontario. Rounding out the show, economics writer and researcher Nathan Tankus returns to the podcast to discuss the economic arguments in favour of raising the minimum wage. by Phil Hearse | September 11, 2017 Lies, damn lies and statistics, right? Well not always - sometimes statistics dramatise social reality in a graphic way. A year before the devastating floods in India, Bangladesh and Texas, a little-noticed UN report revealed extraordinary figures about the effects of climate change worldwide. Climate-related catastrophe is now not just an additional hazard for the world’s poor, but a central factor in their oppression and poverty. And this will eventually lead to a cascade of millions of climate change refugees, a process already starting. by Mario Candeias | September 10, 2017 It’s not that the class question could ever be pushed aside totally. It preserved a shadowy Marxist existence. Sometimes, however, it surfaced surprisingly in the feature pages of newspapers, only then swiftly to disappear again. At this point, hardly anyone denies it: we are living in a class society (again). Inequality is rising, social divisions are becoming more entrenched, social guarantees once taken for granted have yielded to a generalized culture of insecurity and a common fear of decline. by Charles K. Armstrong | September 10, 2017 The Korean War, a 'limited war' for the U.S. and UN forces, was for Koreans a total war. The human and material resources of North and South Korea were used to their utmost. The physical destruction and loss of life on both sides was almost beyond comprehension, but the North suffered the greater damage, due to American saturation bombing and the scorched-earth policy of the retreating UN forces. The U.S. Air Force estimated that North Korea’s destruction was proportionately greater than that of Japan in the Second World War, where the U.S. had turned 64 major cities to rubble and used the atomic bomb to destroy two others. | September 9, 2017 Fifty years ago, the state of Israel seized the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, in a matter of six days. In a conflict with Egypt, Jordan and Syria, known as the 1967 War, Israel delivered what came to be known as the 'Naksa', meaning setback or defeat, to the armies of the neighbouring Arab countries and to the Palestinians who lost all that remained of their homeland. by Neil Smith | September 9, 2017 It is generally accepted among environmental geographers that there is no such thing as a natural disaster. In every phase and aspect of a disaster - causes, vulnerability, preparedness, results and response, and reconstruction - the contours of disaster and the difference between who lives and who dies is to a greater or lesser extent a social calculus. Hurricane Katrina provides the most startling confirmation of that axiom. |
Progressive Workers Will Not Be Divided In Fight Against NAFTA September 12, 2017 A tale of two Irmas: rich Miami ready for tumult as poor Miami waits and hopes September 12, 2017 Harvey - The Trade Unions must Act. The Arsonists Must Pay. September 12, 2017 The Left After Charlottesville September 11, 2017 Saudi government may have funded 9/11 'dry run,' attorneys say September 11, 2017 New Climate Test for Energy East may give the Final Blow September 11, 2017 Tiny Homes in the Path of Kinder Morgan September 11, 2017 Return with a Vengeance: Working Class Anger and the Rise of Populism September 11, 2017 Undercover in Temp Nation September 11, 2017 A Requiem for Florida, the Paradise That Should Never Have Been September 11, 2017 Syria's Survival Is Blow to Jihadists September 11, 2017 Winston Churchill has as much blood on his hands as the worst genocidal dictators September 10, 2017 The West might hardly believe it, but it now seems the Syrian war is ending September 10, 2017 In The News archive:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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 The Capitalism Workshop: Rethinking Contemporary Anti-Capitalism Uneven and combined development remains crucial for understanding the continued widening and deepening of capitalism. However, the nature of the heterogeneous and uneven development of contemporary capitalism, especially since the 1970s, makes problematic the characterization of capitalist totality, as a coherent stage and as a singular, albeit uneven, combination. This complicates the successful pursuit of anti-capitalism, which now requires varied but interrelated responses at all scales and involving a range of approaches, from local community activism and non-capitalist alternatives to mass Leninist-inspired parties and an international socialist movement. Thus, a far more uneven anti-capitalism is appropriate; and a single, overarching anti-capitalist process such as Permanent Revolution may not be the only or way forward. This is not an argument for a post-Marxist horizontal heterogeneity; but rather an exploration of the reasons and possibilities for a dialectical anti-capitalism, where beneficial encounters occur across the arc of anti-capitalism, within which proletariat mobilization remains a central component. Such confluence offers one starting point for contending with the perennial duality of reform and revolution, manifest today in the either/or of an anti-capitalism of total revolution and an agonistic, fractional post-Marxist politics working to reduce oppression and hardship within capitalism. Robert Latham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. His research includes political economy, critical theory, the politics of new media, and trans-national politics. Latham recently co-organized the “Augmenting the Left” symposium and his most recent book is The Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State. RSVP to attend: thecapitalismworkshop@gmail.com thecapitalismworkshop.com |
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