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An analysis of central bank decision-making

An earlier version of this paper was presented at ‘The MPC at 25’, a conference organised by the United Kingdom’s National Institute of Economic and Social Research, in London, 30 March 2022 The process by which central banks take decisions has evolved over the years,...

Greve geral na Bélgica foi a maior dos últimos 40 anos

Ao longo de três dias, os sindicatos belgas organizaram iniciativas contra a intenção do Governo de impor cortes drásticos nas pensões, benefícios sociais, saúde, educação e cultura, além de novos ataques aos migrantes. Os trabalhadores na Bélgica participaram esta...

Repenser les flux de déchets au-delà des oppositions binaires

Près de trente-cinq ans après la signature de la Convention de Bâle visant à réduire les flux transfrontaliers de déchets dangereux, les déplacements internationaux de tous types de déchets continuent à croître et demeurent un enjeu majeur, à la fois éthique,...

Les dessous des déchets

Les déchets saturent notre planète. Tandis que les discours dominants pointent la consommation individuelle et glorifient le recyclage, ils occultent les responsabilités industrielles, les inégalités sociales et les ravages environnementaux. Repenser les déchets,...

La spirale toxique de la pollution plastique au Mexique

L'approche dominante de la pollution plastique prêche pour l'adoption de solutions marchandes et techniques en vue de « valoriser » les déchets, sans remettre en cause la logique de surproduction de plastique. Et donc en ignorant les pollutions émises aux autres...

Caballo de Troya en la frontera de Venezuela

Caballo de Troya en la frontera de Venezuela

Kintto Lucas Hay un Caballo de Troya, escondido en la sonrisa de los niños bien y la hienas que miran a la Suramérica como si fuera su playa privada, con sillitas donde sentar sus grandes culos mientras miran celulares y piden ayuda humanitaria para comprarse otro...

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

Photo by Ryan Moreno One of the oldest maxims in advertising is that sex “sells.” But it turns out that race – and racial controversy – “sells,” too. Witness the sprawling controversy over an American Eagle advertising campaign to promote sales of its new line of blue...

The Progressive Case for Tariffs

The Progressive Case for Tariffs

Cargo ship entering the Columbia River from the Pacific. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. As the Trump Administration continues to push ineffective tariff policies and ignite trade wars, America’s working families hang in the balance — caught between rising prices and a...

Partyism Without the Party

Partyism Without the Party

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

Coalition Socialism

Coalition Socialism

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

What Right Does Japan Have to Pronounce about Taiwan?

What Right Does Japan Have to Pronounce about Taiwan?

Chinese chairman Xi Jinping met with Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, at her request in Gyeongju, on 31 October, in the Republic of Korea. The recently ensconced Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi began her early leadership with a major diplomatic gaffe...

Soldiers of Solidarity — Part III

Soldiers of Solidarity — Part III

Our soldiers did not go to Africa to conquer, but to liberate.” — Fidel Castro1 Read Part I and Part II. In late 1975, as Angola prepared to cast off Portuguese rule, its fragile independence was threatened by apartheid South Africa’s armies and CIA‑backed...

Gli elettori svizzeri respingono due referendum

Gli elettori svizzeri respingono due referendum

Gli elettori svizzeri hanno respinto il 30 novembre la sostituzione del servizio militare con un servizio civile obbligatorio per tutti, senza distinzioni di genere, e l’introduzione di una tassa climatica sulle eredità dei più ricchi. Leggi

La résolution Trump sera-t-elle appliquée ?

Vote à l’ONU : Trump a-t-il gagné ? Alger, Moscou, Pékin se sont-ils couchés ? La bataille de Gaza est-elle terminée ou est-ce juste une nouvelle phase ? Et qui […] The post La résolution Trump sera-t-elle appliquée ? appeared first on Investig'action.

AI Price-Fixing Is Protected by . . . the First Amendment?

AI Price-Fixing Is Protected by . . . the First Amendment?

Tech giant RealPage filed a federal lawsuit asserting that AI companies have a free speech right to help landlords collude to raise rents, part of a broader trend of corporations advancing new interpretations of the First Amendment to protect their power.The New York...

Building Municipal Socialism in New York With DSA

Building Municipal Socialism in New York With DSA

Socialists’ path to supporting Mayor Zohran Mamdani will build on the strategy that socialists there have developed over the past decade, writes NYC Democratic Socialists of America cochair Grace Mausser.Zohran Mamdani calls NYC-DSA his political home, and the...

In France, the eternal return of facial recognition

Last May, the French government launched a working group aimed at legalizing real-time facial recognition. Far from being a surprise, this announcement is part of a series of proposals put forward by state officials, along with industrial and scientific players. We...

Apropos ‘Western Civilization’

Apropos ‘Western Civilization’

According to a report in the Times of India (November 23), the United States has asked European countries to restrict immigration in order to preserve “Western Civilization.” Many in the Third World would find the term “Western Civilization” laughable, especially if...

França: a Alternativa Mélenchon

França: a Alternativa Mélenchon

Foto: Sameer Al-Doumy Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa leitura! Entrevista a Walden Bello, no...

Redução da jornada: que grupos sociais lideram as lutas

Redução da jornada: que grupos sociais lideram as lutas

Mobilização nacional #BrequedosApps realizada no dia 01 de julho – São Paulo (Luca Meola) Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber...

Fediverso: Outra internet é possível

Fediverso: Outra internet é possível

Ilustração: Intervozes Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa leitura! Uma revolução silenciosa está em...

Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed

Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed

US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. By Roger D. Harris Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens...

Groups fighting for prosecutor Delia Espinoza

Groups fighting for prosecutor Delia Espinoza

Good governance is a right. A new day of street protests was staged today by various groups from Generation Z, the Callao Bloc, the CGTP Callao (General Confederation of Peruvian Workers), the Ama sua ama quella Independent Bloc, workers, social activists, the...

Auschwitz ad infinitum • Um debate com Heiner Müller

Auschwitz ad infinitum • Um debate com Heiner Müller

  Heiner Müller, tem escrito bastante a partir da história alemã, especialmente do nacional-socialismo. Há algo de especificamente alemão nessa matéria teatral? Mao Tsé-Tung disse uma vez que enquanto o nacional-socialismo estivesse ao ataque seria imbatível. E esteve...

O Fim da Revolução • Pedro Levi Bismarck

O Fim da Revolução • Pedro Levi Bismarck

O argumento segundo o qual a CDU deveria ter apoiado a candidatura de Alexandra Leitão não tem nenhuma lógica política a não ser na démarche própria das paixões partidárias. A questão, na verdade, deveria ser posta ao contrário: por que razão deram o Bloco e o Livre...

Lisboa, política sem glória • Pedro Levi Bismarck

Lisboa, política sem glória • Pedro Levi Bismarck

Era preciso encontrar um termo apropriado para o momento exacto em que um sistema deixa de ser capaz de dissimular e ocultar as suas próprias contradições. O «acidente» não é apenas o «milagre invertido», como dizia Paul Virilio, que expõe as fragilidades da...

Crisis global y renovación social

¿Gestión del desastre o búsqueda de autonomía? La iglesia capitalista, con sus sacramentos del crecimiento ilimitado, extractivismo, productivismo, y consumo compulsivo, ha logrado en unas pocas décadas, desde la gran aceleración de los años 50 del siglo pasado,...

¿Dónde nos llevan los designios celestiales del imperio?

“En cuanto termine la guerra [Primera Guerra Mundial] podremos someterlos a nuestro modo de pensar, entre otras cosas porque estarán financieramente en nuestras manos”. William Wilson, presidente de EE.UU., en carta al coronel House. Toda la historia de EE.UU. cabe en...

Your party, our roots and branches

Whatever happens at the Your Party inaugural conference, its seeds are growing into roots across the UK. John Stephens reports on the branch members forging their own paths to action The post Your party, our roots and branches appeared first on Red Pepper.

Mutual aid – review

Revisiting a modern classic ahead of its anticipated expanded edition, Darcy White explores the contours and applications of mutual aid, which for Dean Spade must be grounded in shared understandings of systemic injustice The post Mutual aid – review appeared first on...

Moving music: an interview with Hamsaz Ensemble

A 15-strong group fuses traditional Iranian instruments with contemporary stories of diaspora, community and hope. For member Freesia, folk music can build connection and understanding across difference The post Moving music: an interview with Hamsaz Ensemble appeared...

50 años después. Lo que pudo ser y no fue

El 25 de abril de 1974 se acababa la dictadura en Portugal y se iniciaba la que se conocería como la revolución de los claveles. El 24 de julio de 1974 caía la dictadura en Grecia. La siguiente tenía que ser la dictadura franquista. Franco murió en la cama, pero el...

Israel lanza una nueva operación militar en Cisjordania

Los soldados israelíes llevan a cabo una incursión entre Nablus y el norte del valle del Jordán, sitiando en particular la ciudad de Tubas. Esta ofensiva es una continuación de las llevadas a cabo en Jenin y Tulkarem, donde el ejército israelí está acusado de crímenes...

Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later

Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later

On Feb. 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin explained his country’s intentions in Ukraine in a televised speech. How has what he said then measured up to today?  Joe Lauria reports.  It is instructive to compare Russia’s war aims expressed on Feb. 24, 2022 to the state of the...

After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie

After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie

Dave Zirin West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey is inventing reasons for the National Guard to occupy Washington, DC. We cannot let his outrageous fabrications take hold. The post After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie appeared first on The...

Ucraina. Dare un’opportunità alla pace

Con il “piano di pace” proposto da Trump e le sue successive modifiche si è aperta un’opportunità per porre fine all’inutile strage che insanguina la frontiera est dell’Europa. Invece di esultare, le cancellerie occidentali e i vertici UE hanno avuto una reazione...

L’imam Mohamed Shahin, noi, il maccartismo

L’imam della moschea torinese di San Salvario, Mohamed Shahin, da più di 20 anni in Italia, protagonista del dialogo interreligioso e profondamente impegnato nel contesto sociale, è stato colpito da un provvedimento di espulsione. La sua colpa? Essere punto di...

Conservative Governance Has Undermined U.S. Life Expectancy

Although, in recent decades, American conservatives have embraced what they call the “Right to Life,” they have certainly done a poor job of sustaining life in the United States.  That’s the conclusion that can be drawn from a just-published scientific study, “U.S....

There Is an Alternative to War

The war in Ukraine provides us with yet another opportunity to consider what might be done about the wars that continue to ravage the world. The current Russian war of aggression is particularly horrific, featuring a massive military invasion of a smaller, weaker...