Economics

Capitalism, Class, Labor movement, Marxism, Work

Letting the Cat Out of the Bag

About an imaginary conversation that originally appeared in the October 1937 issue of The United Automobile Worker.

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Capitalism, Economics, Housing, Politics

News From Canada: November 2022

The prospects of the Canadian economy taking an upswing is, to say the least, gloomy. Economists say Canada is headed for a recession and it’s going to ...

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Capitalism, Economics, Marxism

But What About the Wage-Price Spiral?

Foundation of the spiral argument In nearly every media interview in recent months, Mick Lynch, general secretary of the  National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers ...

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Book Review, Economics, healthcare

What Are Hospitals For?

Source: Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (New York: Crown, 2020) This is a hospital. What are hospitals for? Perhaps you think that they ...

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Book Review, Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Technology, Work

Automation: An Open Letter to Andrew Yang

Dear Andrew Yang I followed with interest your campaign as a candidate in the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primaries. You are widely known for advocating Universal Basic ...

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Capitalism, Class, Economics, Work

A Novel That Makes Socialists

Robert Tressell’s The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a book that has made (or helped make) many socialists, at least in Britain. It has long been popular in our companion party, ...

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Economics, Politics, Technology, War

How the Military-industrial Complex Works

Andrew Cockburn, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine. Verso, 2021 In this book Cockburn lays bare the inner workings of the military-industrial complex ...

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Capitalism, Economics, healthcare, Technology

Captives of Coca-Cola

Why the people of San Cristobal in Mexico's Chiapas State drink so much Coca-Cola and what it does to them.

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Capitalism, Class, History, Marxism

Principle One

One of the many things I love about the World Socialist Movement is how long it’s been around. The Socialist Party of Great Britain was founded in ...

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Class, History, Marxism, Politics, Socialism

Humanity or the Proletariat? The Turner Controversy Reviewed

Renowned public speaker Tony Turner was a member of the SPGB from 1931—1955, when he resigned to end a bitter internal conflict over his controversial views.

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