Economics
Class, Economics, News, Politics
India: Turning a Deaf Ear to Misery and Despair
In a guest post from India, Pramod Ranjan of Assam Central University reflects on the new annual budget of the Indian government and how it ignores the plight of the country's poor in the wake of Covid-19.
Capitalism, Economics, healthcare, Science
A Cure for COVID-19: A Profit-making Strategy
Interim results of trials of the drug Remdesivir on Covid-19 patients are very encouraging. But could the drug be reaching those who desperately need it more quickly?
Economics, Environment, healthcare, News, Politics, Science
Why the Shortage of Medical Supplies?
Why are medical supplies in such short supply? This study explains the main reasons and presents three case studies: respiratory face masks, ventilators, and vaccines.
Capitalism, Class, Economics, Environment, healthcare, Marxism
The Virus and the Money-tree
A Marxian analysis of the pandemic, its origin, and its economic impact. Reposted from the magazine Internationalist Perspective.
Capitalism, Economics, Housing
Sleeping Pods
As rents soar and swallow up more and more of the earnings of working people, landlords face a problem -- how to pack an increasing number of tenants into a given space. A San Francisco developer has the answer.
A New Ideology for China?
Huang Fenglin, Theory of Bipolar World – The Road to Communism Found in the Evolutionary Structure of World History (translation and revision of a text published in Chinese in ...
Capitalism, Economics, Environment, Marxism
Hope or Hoax: Reflections on the Green New Deal
Can a Green New Deal within capitalism resolve the climate crisis? The author of this article, reproduced from the journal Internationalist Perspective, argues that any such program would be either inadequate or incompatible with the capitalist drive for growth.
Capitalism, Economics, Environment, News
Climate: Up Against the ‘Growth Machine’ of Capital
In fighting to survive as a species in a bearable climate, we are up against a broad range of capitalist interests. Ultimately we shall need to halt the endlessly expanding 'growth machine' of capitalism.
