WHY NOT A GOVERNMENT-OWNED SUPERMARKET CHAIN? - AGAINST THE CURRENT
Despite being in office for two years, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has failed to curb the skyrocketing cost of living. Under pressure to ...| nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com
“But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little, and who talk too much.” –John Dryden. During the early 1960s, I was assistant editor of The […]| Columns Archives – The Independent
He turned Europe into an American vassal| UnHerd
Despite being in office for two years, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has failed to curb the skyrocketing cost of living. Under pressure to ...| nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com
The so-called 'two speed' economic recovery is a convenient fiction, designed to hide the fact that the coalition Government's economic policies have deliberately widened the road for the few, at the expense of the many. | AGAINST THE CURRENT
The Government's proposed electoral law change will disenfranchise a large swathe of voters, but an even larger number of people have already been disenfranchised by a representative democracy that is neither representative nor democratic.| AGAINST THE CURRENT
The skyrocketing rise in the price of a block of butter is emblematic of a much wider problem for the government, the rising cost of living and the destructive impact of its austerity agenda.| AGAINST THE CURRENT
New York's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, wants to establish city-owned supermarkets, designed to keep prices low. Why can't something similar be established in New Zealand? Is it corporate interests and the lack of political will that stand in the way?| AGAINST THE CURRENT
I visited my home town of Napier a few weeks back and was stunned by the obvious poverty now evident across the place – this in the past twelve months, since a disastrous cyclone. This much poverty hasn’t generated that quickly, but it’s as if the cyclone made it visible. There are homeless people trying … More A visit to art deco central – and its poverty| Matthew Wright
Mašina spoke with Palestinian writer Toufic Haddad ahead of his appearance at Palestine Day in Belgrade, which will take place on Sunday, June 22, at the Liberated Student Cultural Center (SKC) from 2 PM to 10 PM. The post Neoliberalism as a Colonial Strategy in Palestine: A Conversation with Toufic Haddad appeared first on Mašina English.| Mašina English
Episodes on autocracy, neoliberalism, internet language, and the Clipse Tiny Desk Concert.| Unsolicited Advice from Tiffany B. Brown
โดย เควิน คาร์สัน เควิน คาร์สัน. บทความต้นฉบับ. When You Cross Pinochet With a Cyberpunk Dystopia… 9 พฤศจิกายน 2024. แปลเป็นภาษาไทยโดย Kin คุณจะได้อะไร คำตอบคือ “เขตเสรีพิเศษขนาดย่อมๆ” (Special Little Freedom Zones) นี่คือคำที่ลิซ โวล์ฟ ...| Center for a Stateless Society
[:en]30 years of Swedish EU-membership: From socialist outsider to frugal stalwartAs Sweden marks 30 years of European Union (EU) membership this year, a perplexing image emerges: a country which for large parts of the 20th …| rosalux.eu
For Part One, click HERE. For Part Two, click HERE. In the first two parts of this series, I looked at both the larger philosophical…| The Tattooed Professor
[Click here to read Part One] In the 1970s, neoliberalism came into its own as a coherent ideological platform and political-economic policy toolkit. As politicians,…| The Tattooed Professor
Which things, tell me, are yours? Whence have you brought your goods into life? You are like one occupying a place in a theater, who should prohibit others from entering, treating that as his own w…| The Tattooed Professor
by alternator This is the first part of an article by the Romanian collective Alternator about the last presidential elections in Romania. On 18 May, the pro-European candidate Nicuşor Dan defeated his fascist, pro-Russian, and Trumpist competitor, Georgie Simion. Despite their different geopolitical stances, Dan’s victory represents just another face of European militarism: a strong| Transnational Social Strike Platform -
Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...| London Review of Books
The point wasn’t to organize people—it was to acquire them.| the Giving Review
Renowned international relations scholar and practitioner Joseph S. Nye passed away last week. Numerous tributes have been written, noting his high quality scholarship and influence on US foreign p…| The Duck of Minerva
Matthew Miller delivers the April political report of the YCL Central Committee| Challenge Magazine
by Glory M. Liu* People like to fight over Adam Smith. To some, the Scottish philosopher is the patron saint of capitalism who wrote that great bible of economics, The Wealth of Nations (1776). Its…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Borders are not natural – they are political constructs designed to serve economic interests. In this video, Arun Kundnani explains that, while capital and goods move freely across borders, labor is heavily restricted, often through violent means. The idea that people must be kept out of certain regions is a relatively recent development, emerging in… The post Video: why capitalists build up the border walls appeared first on Arun Kundnani.| Arun Kundnani
How the Democratic Party lost, how the far Right thrives in the debris of racial capitalism, and why Trump is the War on Terror returning home. This video was first published by Verso Books. The post Video: on the 2024 election and Trump’s second term appeared first on Arun Kundnani.| Arun Kundnani
A discussion with WBAI’s Law and Disorder radio show on the new graphic booklet Homeland Security: Myths and Monsters. The post Audio: Interview with Law and Disorder radio show appeared first on Arun Kundnani.| Arun Kundnani
The author explores the crisis of meaning within modernity, emphasizing the loss of metaphysical grounding and identity amid neoliberal consumerism. It presents fasting as a transformative practice…| Traversing Tradition
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 20, 2025 Anatol Lieven looks at the global dimensions of Trumpism • Quinn Slobodian muses on whether Trump is a neoliberal, and exa…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Inside the strange, uniform politics of elite MBA programs| The New Republic
Neoliberalism has been reshaped as plutocracy. But in the United States, the plutocrats may have over-reached themselves.| the next wave
by Tamar Barkay* Are the inverse trajectories of internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the decline of organized labor in the past decades linked? If so, how?These questions arise from three widely recognized observations. First, since the 1980s, most OECD countries have experienced a decline in unionization and union density rates (Visser, 2012). Second, following […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Though I haven’t written much on neoliberalism lately, I still dip into the literature now and again. The next book in my queue, Robert McDonald’s Works Like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric…| An und für sich
by Donni Wang* ———–* Donni Wang holds a PhD in Classics from Stanford University. Her research on non-capitalist modes of economics in ancient Greece is featured in her book Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism. Now an independent scholar and historian, she is dedicated to paradigm change through both academic and creative approaches. *****While […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Like many others in the US, I gathered with friends last weekend to try to come to terms with the re-election of Donald Trump as president. None of us were surprised by his victory but, with his winning every swing state, the Senate, and, as seemed likely, the House, we were all depressed at the… The post After Trump, let’s fight for all the great and simple things that make us human appeared first on Arun Kundnani.| Arun Kundnani
Eleanor Fox writes that the paradigm shift in United States antitrust is not best understood as an embrace of neo-Brandeisian anti-bigness ideas but rather a rejection of neoliberal principles that have prevented effective antitrust regulation for decades. The shift encompasses the concerns and efforts of centrists, progressives, and neo-Brandeisians.| ProMarket
Brazil’s block of Elon Musk’s X platform is not about free speech, but about sovereignty and foreign entities respecting Brazil’s rule of law. The only political element is on Musk’s side, in his open support for Brazilian fascists. The billionaire turned far-right influencer’s meddling and incitement is rightly being viewed as a coup attempt. – […] The post Inside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started–and lost–a Fight With Brazil’s Judiciary appeared first on BRASILWIRE.| BRASILWIRE
Built in the 1960s, Porto Alegre’s massive flood protection system would have easily prevented the city from flooding, if it hadn’t been systematically neglected for 20 years. By Jeferson Miola Due to its landscape, Porto Alegre is exposed to flood risks from the Guaíba River. Therefore, by the end of the 1960s, following the largest […] The post Local Government’s responsibility for Porto Alegre flood catastrophe appeared first on BRASILWIRE.| BRASILWIRE
Translated by Paul Antonopoulos – CSS Project Director; MENA and Latin America Research Fellow Furthering the Critical Deconstruction of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex This piece should …| syncreticstudies.com
By Simon Pirani. Reproduced, with thanks, from Capitalism Nature Socialism journal, August 2024. Introduction Matthew Huber and Fred Stafford’s insistence that “electricity is poised to be a centra…| People and Nature
Liberals preach cultural tolerance to the working classes while inflicting death-by-policy on migrants| Arun Kundnani
This summer I have been working on an article comparing Paul and the Qur’an, which will build upon a conference presentation I gave last year on the same topic. In many ways, despite the fact…| An und für sich
The last decade or so has been marked by a global resurgence of the extreme right. Its most prominent avatars in the West are the Brexit campaign and the Trump phenomenon, while various right-wing …| An und für sich
The neoliberal ideology of unrestrained markets has led to a global crisis. Humanity now faces an existential threat as the result of global dominance by corporations, whose ultimate goal is at odd…| Patterns of Meaning
It’s time to face the fact that resolving the climate crisis will require a fundamental shift away from our growth-based, corporate-dominated global system. Originally published October 9, 20…| Patterns of Meaning
Illiberal Lives, at Ludwig Forum Aachen, April 22, 2023 – September 10, 2023 The group exhibition Illiberal Lives contributes to a rich and provocative debate on art both as a subject and object of liberal market logic. It is curated by Eva Birkenstock, Anselm Franke, Holger Otten and Kerstin Stakemeier, with works by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Jordan Strafer. A...| ARTMargins
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss alternatives to neoliberal model of financialization, policies for a productive, sustainable economy.| Geopolitical Economy Report
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the debt crises in the US, and how neoliberal economics creates financial bubbles.| Geopolitical Economy Report
Gender equality can’t be achieved by the UN Agenda 2030 due to a lack of feminist policymaking. The UN Sustainable Development Goals fail The post Achieving sustainable development: the shortcomings of the UN SDGs and the need for feminist policymaking first appeared on Young Feminist Europe.| Young Feminist Europe
Anyone advocating neoliberal policies is now persona non grata in Washington, D.C.| Reason.com
by Burç Köstem It has been nearly two months since February 6th, when two consecutive earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.7 magnitudes originating in the towns of Maraş and Antep took place. The earthquake has had a devastating effect across a large geographical area near the Turkish-Syrian border, that spans the historic lands of Kurdistan and| Uneven Earth - Where the ecological meets the political
In worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, protestors are fantasizing their participation in America's problems, and in the process ignoring their own.| Damage
This week, a group of online ‘influencers’ have come under fire for sharing glowing videos of a paid trip to a factory in China owned by controversial fast fashion retailer, Shein. The company has previously been accused of abusing workers and breaching rules around working hours. The public reaction to what has been called “propaganda” […]| CC Foundation
