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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
