Adam Harmsworth, Coventry Socialist Party Woke Capitalism provides a useful introduction to the well-deserved critique of corporations that co-opt and sabotage progressive movements. Author Carl Rhodes gives us many examples of companies embracing slogans, gimmicks and campaigns on social issues: Ben and Jerry’s “Pecan Resist” flavor with proceeds going toRead More →
Why Street Pay Packages Keep Exploding No Matter What The stock market is swinging wildly in light of Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, but Wall Street traders are doing very well. Bad news is good news for traders who make money from volatility. After all, in the year of Delta andRead More →
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Secretary of State V Srinivasa Rao has described the book “The Communist Manifesto,” written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as a weapon in the hands of the working class. He was speaking at the Red Book Day, held at the party office in MaddilapalemRead More →
review of Suburban socialism (or barbarism) by Oly Durose (Repeater Books, 2022) There’s a line at Christopher Hill The experience of defeat, his masterful portrayal of discouraged radicals after the English Revolution, on the potential uses of political losses. According to Hill, defeat can force ideologues to confront the inadequacyRead More →
Homepage | The Socialist February 9, 2022 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Make a donation | audio | PDF | Ebook what we think Nationalize the energy companies! (Click to enlarge) Working class families face a perfect storm. After two lost decades of living standards, stagnant wages, privatizationsRead More →
Online comments and complaints have been circulating freely since the New York Times announced that it was buying Wordle, the online puzzle game that has become a global sensation, and I’m not alone in lamenting the likelihood that Wordle will soon be transformed from some sort of public good availableRead More →
While touting economic growth on Friday, Biden said he would work with Congress to make capitalism work better. It comes after AOC told Yahoo Finance that the capitalist system in the United States was “unredeemable”. Biden frequently cites his capitalist beliefs and the benefits the system offers the working class.Read More →
Further thoughts on “A New Origin Story: The 1619 Project” By Abayomi AzikiweEditor, Pan-African NewswireAfrican American History Month Series #1 New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones continued to make an impact with the revised publication of “The 1619 Project” as an extension of the original work which coincided with theRead More →
The announcement by the US Treasury that the national public debt has exceeded 30 trillion dollars is an important step in the deepening of the historic crisis of American capitalism. Over the past few decades, and particularly since the financial collapse of 2008, the ruling class and its state institutionsRead More →
The 21st century is witnessing a gradual disappearance of traditional conservatism. With the disintegration of the USSR, liberal capitalism and internationalist interventionism lost their appeal. Current conservatism, says Philipps O’Brien of the University of St Andrews, is essentially nationalist, populist, evangelical and anti-science. Reverence for leaders is also a prominentRead More →
‘ My sister studied economics but she never read Marx or Engels,” says Berkay Kartav, 24. The co-ordinator of the London Young Socialists (a branch of Britain’s Socialist Party) sips black tea at Vagabond on Holloway Road. “It just goes to show that mainstream economics, as taught in universities, doesn’tRead More →
When [BR] Ambedkar and others in the anti-caste movement drew attention to the “Brahminical philosophy” or Brahmanism the Communists were uncomfortable with in usage. For them, Brahmanism was, at best, a historical trend that in the past had sought to justify a birth-based social order, and they did not believeRead More →
Breadcrumb Links NP Comment Adam Zivo: If you care about workers, the best thing you can do is improve capitalism by reducing its monopoly impulses, which in practice means supporting free enterprise and competition. Author of the article: Adam zivo Release date : Dec 22 2021 • 23 hours agoRead More →
HR First, I will answer the national question. In general, we see that part of the economic establishment is tempted to play the card of the extreme right to divide and conquer the working class. This is a classic approach in times of economic crisis, in particular by dividing immigrantRead More →
The the authors are among the world’s leading economists known for their critical assessments of capitalism. And the blurb for the book says, “Traditional economics views capitalism as an isolated and closed system. In this groundbreaking book, authors Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik argue that this is both historically falseRead More →
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1158/33404 From The Socialist newspaper, December 1, 2021 Fundraising for the fight at Socialism2021. Photo: Mary Finch (Click to enlarge) Roger Butler, Socialist Party of Swansea Fight Fund organizer Roman orator and statesman Cicero described finances and resources as “the sinews of war” – and ofRead More →
Home | Le Socialiste November 17, 2021 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Make a donation | audio | PDF | Ebook Isai Priya, treasurer of the Socialist Party The Today program, on BBC Radio 4, examined the state of the NHS and its history. The pressure on theRead More →
Home | Le Socialiste November 17, 2021 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Make a donation | audio | PDF | Ebook Best event to come together to fight for socialism Julija Rusevica, Socialist Party of South West London You may have heard a lot about the Socialism 2021Read More →
Last month, the Fraser Institute released its annual report Economic freedom of the world report. As usual, he showed that “economic freedom” is positively correlated with many good things and negatively correlated with many bad. Defenders of capitalism love the Fraser Institute. Libertarian philosopher Jason Brennan, for example, made extensiveRead More →
Heads of state, government ministers and thousands of other delegates from all corners of the world converge on Glasgow, Scotland for two weeks of climate change talks starting this weekend. Firefighters work at the scene of a forest fire near the village of Kyuyorelyakh in the Gorny Ulus region, westRead More →
Famine spread to the West following the crisis of 1929. All institutions were threatened. They only survived thanks to World War II. Already in the 18th century, British economists of nascent capitalism wondered about the sustainability of this system around David Ricardo. What was initially very profitable will eventually becomeRead More →
Studying socialism Ohio Wesleyan English Teacher to Discuss Karl Marx’s “English Utopia” on October 27 By Ohio Wesleyan University DELAWARE, Ohio – Mark Allison, Ph.D., professor at Ohio Wesleyan University, will discuss “Karl Marx’s English Utopia” when he presents the Benjamin T. Spencer 2021-2022 Lecture sponsored by the English DepartmentRead More →
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1150/33123 From The Socialist, October 6, 2021 “Here is your opinion on plants” by Michael Pollan – posted by Allen Lane Commented by Dave Carr Is the C8H10N4O2 molecule – that’s caffeine for you and me – responsible for the slave trade, colonial wars, imperialism, increasedRead More →
In 1920, Russian architect Vladimir Tatlin proudly unveiled the very first wooden model of the Monument to the Third International. The building, which would serve as the new and improved headquarters of the Comintern, was to be constructed in the city of Petrograd, present-day St. Petersburg. Communist Party officials whoRead More →
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/33101 Posted on October 5, 2021 16:37 GMT The Panama Papers revealed tax evasion abroad in 2016 (Click to enlarge) Expose it and fight for a socialist alternative Tony Saunois, IOC Secretary The explosive leak of 6.4 million documents and 1.2 million emails showing the grotesqueRead More →
On Saturday, the Women’s March will hold nationwide “mass mobilization events” in all 50 states to protest counterrevolution against reproductive rights in Texas, Mississippi and many other Republican-controlled states . Protests will take place before the Supreme Court resumes on October 4. In this file photo from June 30, 2021,Read More →
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 21, 2021, at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci) The opening session of the 76th United Nations General Assembly kicked off on Tuesday, September 21 with aRead More →
Twenty-two months since the emergence of COVID-19, the pandemic is not in sight, which continues to kill on a large scale. A motorcade passes by photos of Detroit victims of COVID-19, Monday, August 31, 2020 at Belle Isle in Detroit. (AP Photo / Carlos Osorio) The center of the pandemicRead More →
The documentary series LuLaRich from Amazon opens with an interview with DeAnne and Mark Stidham, co-founders of multi-level marketing firm LuLaRoe. They sit down and chat, not realizing the camera is already rolling – a shortcut the filmmakers have taken to signal viewers that this documentary won’t just channel theRead More →
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1148/33054 From The Socialist newspaper, September 22, 2021 Life expectancy is decreasing, and at a higher rate for the poorest (Click to enlarge) Nancy Taaffe, Socialist Party of Waltham Forest I often think when I hear that a member of the royal family has passed awayRead More →
“We are the Socialist Equality Party, Fourth International, and we stand to give the generalized opposition to the right-wing politics of all parliamentary parties a socialist voice and perspective.” With this statement, SGP Vice-President Christoph Vandreier began his party’s presentation in an election broadcast on German public television on SeptemberRead More →
– Counter Punch / Nathaniel St Clair DEMOCRACY exists if and when a community organizes its autonomy around the full participation, on an equal footing, of all members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual or a subgroup ofRead More →
Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its autonomy around the full participation, on an equal footing, of all members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual or a subgroup of that community, a leader. Universal suffrage isRead More →
New Orleans The author is a member of the Workers Voice Socialist Movement of New Orleans. Here she describes Ida’s ravages, government aid failure, and her ideas on how working class organizations should respond to the crisis. Collapsed building in New Orleans after Hurricane Ida hit in August September 12Read More →
Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its autonomy around the full participation, on an equal footing, of all members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual or a subgroup of that community, a leader. Universal suffrage isRead More →
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1147/33027 From The Socialist newspaper, September 15, 2021 Join the Youth Fight for Jobs protests on October 9 Alex Smith, Socialist Party of Liverpool There are massive attacks on young people on the immediate horizon. The end of the increase in universal credit, scheduled for theRead More →
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1147/33013 From The Socialist newspaper, September 15, 2021 Members of the Socialist Party held a booth at the Oxford Brookes Freshers Fair on Monday, highlighting the need for a new socialist student society on campus. We made contact with around 20 students and had broad discussionsRead More →
Home | The Socialist September 15, 2021 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Make a donation | audio | PDF | Ebook Save our NHS, photo Mary Finch (Click to enlarge) Peter Taaffe, political secretary of the Socialist Party Under the colossal weight of the global pandemic, health servicesRead More →
If you haven’t noticed that capitalism is killing us, you aren’t paying attention. Heating domes in the northwest, hurricanes in the south and northeast: man-made climate change has trivialized deadly weather events. And where is the incentive to do things differently? As long as the 0.1% are safe from theRead More →
The flood disaster in Humphreys County, Tennessee, over the weekend has so far killed at least 21 people, including two toddlers, and 45 others are still missing. The flash floods were the result of a storm that dropped 17 inches of rain over the area on Saturday night, possibly aRead More →
David moore As the Socialist Equality Party candidate for governor of California, I call for the broadest mobilization of resources to fight the catastrophic fires that have erupted across the state. To protect future generations, we must proceed with a massive redistribution of the wealth of state billionaires and putRead More →
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1144/32890 From The Socialist newspaper, August 11, 2021 Socialism 2021, photo Socialist Party In a world facing crisis on all fronts, the discussion of how socialist ideas can change the world is more necessary than ever. The Institute of Economic Affairs, a pro-capitalist think tank, recentlyRead More →
TThe last thing Pamela Lorduy remembers on June 8, 2019, was arguing with her then boyfriend. The next day, she woke up in the hospital. She had broken her pelvis in six places, three ribs, four vertebrae, her tibia, fibula, heel, ankle, sacrum and humerus. Lorduy, now 29, believes herRead More →
Advertising On December 7, the Thai student activist group Free People unveiled the logo of its new Restart Thailand movement – and opinions, to say the least, are mixed. Free People (formerly Free Youth) are among a dozen groups associated with the series of mass public protests that have takenRead More →
The political-economic structure of the United States, whose commerce and industry are controlled by private owners in search of more profit, does not have the nature of giving due attention to ordinary people in time, has writes an editor of an analytical website in an article, providing the coronavirus crisisRead More →
Breadcrumb Links Chroniclers Author of the article: Calgary Herald Instead of attacking those lucky enough to be in public service, let’s talk about fixing the economic system itself, the columnist says. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia Content of the article After reflecting at length on columnist Chris Nelson’s June 24Read More →
Passers-by look at posters and messages of condolence for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in north London on June 25, 2017. (Reuters / Peter Nicholls) To subscribe to The nation Subscribe now for as low as $ 2 per month! Thank you for signing up The nationthe weeklyRead More →
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What is a mixed economic system? A mixed economic system is a system that combines aspects of both capitalism and socialism. A mixed economic system protects private property and allows a certain level of economic freedom in the use of capital, but also allows governments to intervene in economic activitiesRead More →