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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,...

A bolha da IA e a economia dos Estados Unidos

A economia dos Estados Unidos tornou-se, em essência, uma grande aposta na inteligência artificial. O mercado de ações dos Estados Unidos continua atingindo novos recordes; o preço da bitcoin também está próximo de valores máximos, e o preço do ouro disparou para...

Les déchets du monde : envers du décor

Les mots sont porteurs de sens. « Déchet » vient du latin cadere, tomber. Son préfixe dis- suggère la mise à l'écart, l'éloignement. Il désigne ce qui est hors d'usage, hors champ, hors monde. Par extension, il incarne la déchéance, le stigmate infligé aux objets,...

Un exministro uruguayo se enroló para defender Venezuela

Un exministro uruguayo se enroló para defender Venezuela

Federico Fasano Mertens La tierra latinoamericana está amenazada por una nueva invasión  del predador más grande de  su indómito suelo, forjado por Bolívar, San Martín, Artigas, Sucre, Morelos, Hidalgo y centenares de patriotas que  sembraron la epifanía de  nuestra...

Honduras: Temen que la derecha y Trump preparan «golpe electoral»

Honduras: Temen que la derecha y Trump preparan «golpe electoral»

Álvaro Verzi Rangel La candidata presidencial del Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) de Honduras, Rixi Moncada, afirmó que le llaman «comunista para esconder la verdad», en respuesta a las declaraciones del presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, quien en clara...

Honduras, juventud rebelde

Honduras, juventud rebelde

Santiago Masetti Esta semana y en forma intempestiva, Donald Trump llamó a votar por la opción liberal de la derecha bipartidista. Encendió las iras del otro factor de la ecuación narco fascistoide, la de los nacionalistas, y justo el mismo día que estos celebraban un...

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.

Ximdo; Peoples Peace Movement Grows in Horn of Africa

Ximdo is a people’s peace movement that has been growing in the war and famine-plagued Horn of Africa for several months now. The word is from the Tigrinya language, used by Eritreans and Tigrayans in Ethiopia. It has a number of meanings, but the best is “coexistence...

Extremistas frustrados

Extremistas frustrados

La derecha israelí se rebela contra los términos de la tregua impuesta por Estados Unidos y renueva su guerra contra el poder judicial y el sistema de controles y equilibrios.

Il respiro di Napoli

Il respiro di Napoli

Spina è il lavoro ventennale del fotografo Mario Spada sulla sua città, che ora è stato pubblicato in un libro ed è in mostra fino al 20 dicembre. 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.

Maduro, Monroe et le retour du ministère de la guerre

Pete Hegseth n’aura pas perdu de temps. A peine l’encre du nouvel en-tête du Département de la Guerre était-elle sèche qu’il mobilisait ses troupes et dépêchait le plus gros porte-avions […] The post Maduro, Monroe et le retour du ministère de la guerre appeared first...

The Alternative Economic Model of Europe’s Nationalist Right

The Alternative Economic Model of Europe’s Nationalist Right

Right-wing nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland only made a selective break with neoliberal economics after the 2008 crash. Their goal was to strengthen domestic capital against foreign competitors without doing anything to empower workers.After the global...

The Rise of France Insoumise

The Rise of France Insoumise

France, like many other European countries, has seen a historic decline of the old workers’ parties. Yet the rise of France Insoumise has ensured the renewal of a dynamic left rooted in popular mobilization.France Insoumise's Jean-Luc Mélenchon was by far the most...

Polluters Will Say Anything to Hide Their Emissions Records

Polluters Will Say Anything to Hide Their Emissions Records

Giant corporations like ExxonMobil are calling on the Supreme Court to block a California law that would require them to release their emissions and climate records. The argument? It would violate businesses’ free speech.Dan Ammann, president at ExxonMobil Corp., at...

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...

Cálculo, Capital e Ciência: os nexos reveladores

Cálculo, Capital e Ciência: os nexos reveladores

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! Título original:Capitalismo e ciência moderna: uma...

Haverá poesia na luta de classes?

Haverá poesia na luta de classes?

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! “Na luta de classes todas as armas são boas:pedras,...

Crônica: A sala de aula como espaço de resistência

Crônica: A sala de aula como espaço de resistência

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! Num país como o Brasil, manter a esperança vivaé, em...

DRU’s Unique Initiative for Women Empowerment!

DRU’s Unique Initiative for Women Empowerment!

By Rozina Rozy (Dhaka Bureau) Rozina Rozy: Senior Journalist and Women Affairs Secretary, Dhaka Reporters Unity.     The Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) has taken a unique initiative this time for women’s empowerment. The organization has launched a driving training...

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...

Ucrania ante una elección insoportable

Agotados por más de tres años de ataques rusos, los ucranianos están cada vez más dispuestos a aceptar compromisos políticos injustos y duras concesiones territoriales para poner fin a la guerra. Sin embargo, está lejos de ser seguro que esta difícil elección...

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...

Boycott Friday!

Boycott Friday!

Steve Brodner Robert L. Brooks The post Boycott Friday! appeared first on The Nation.

Thanksgiving Without Turkey?

Thanksgiving Without Turkey?

Gia Ruiz Turkey prices are up roughly 40 percent this year as inflation drags on. The post Thanksgiving Without Turkey? appeared first on The Nation.

Cercare il socialismo nella vita, non nelle teorie

Piuttosto che cercarlo nelle teorie, il socialismo va trovato dove di fatto si è già realizzato: nella vita quotidiana e attenta dei piccoli paesi quasi abbandonati, nel ritorno a pratiche ormai desuete e fondate su un’economia che abbia come fine non il profitto, ma...

Per la Palestina, leggendo Paola Caridi

Parlare di Palestina – ancora – è necessario, per i palestinesi e per noi: perché il genocidio non è terminato e non si fermano le violenze in Cisgiordania; perché il “piano di pace” di Trump e dell’Onu è espressione del colonialismo più classico; perché la Palestina...

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...