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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...

Sur la montée de l’extrême droite en Amérique latine

L'extrême droite opère-t-elle une montée en puissance sur les scènes politiques latino-américaines ? À quoi renvoie la tendance, socialement et culturellement, à l'échelle continentale ? L'intégralité – en version écrite et augmentée – de l'entretien d'Estelle Falzone...

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 vieja propaganda de guerra funciona

La vieja propaganda de guerra funciona

Caitlin A. Johnstone    Justo cuando se difunden noticias de que Trump ha lanzado a Maduro un ultimátum para que abandone Venezuela inmediatamente si quiere escapar con vida, el Wall Street Journal, propiedad de Murdoch, ha publicado un artículo de propaganda bélica...

Que es “The Unit” y porqué es importante para los BRICS+

Que es “The Unit” y porqué es importante para los BRICS+

Pedro Escobar La única manera de fortalecer a los BRICS+, así como a la mayoría global, es mediante el desarrollo de vínculos geoeconómicos y financieros cada vez más estrechos. Este es el objetivo de “The Unit” El proyecto Unit, revelado por primera vez...

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...

Public Debilitation

Public Debilitation

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

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.

Imran Khan is Alive, but He’s Not Well

Imran Khan is being held in a death cell in solitary confinement, his court-imposed rights ignored. He’s been held for years on one bogus charge after another The post Imran Khan is Alive, but He’s Not Well first appeared on Dissident Voice.

A Symptom of Corporate Media’s Deep Ethical Crisis

A Symptom of Corporate Media’s Deep Ethical Crisis

L-R: Ryan Lizza, Olivia Nuzzi, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tasos Katopodis/Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images/Thomas Machowicz/Reuters “Can we pause this, I’m sorry,” mumbled a sobbing Olivia Nuzzi during her December 2, 2025 interview with Tim Miller of The Bulwark. The...

The Trolling and the Pity

The Trolling and the Pity

Kenn writes: Phil, I see you have been under a deluge of hate and mockery from online Zionists after a few of your pieces on the genocide in Gaza. What do you think is behind such a reaction? I am suspecting that there is a real fear amongst these groups that they are...

Theater for the Many

Theater for the Many

At a time when theater is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority, the theater company Working Theater partners with labor unions to recreate a working-class theater for the 21st century.Cedric Lamar, Sara Ornelas, C. K. Edwards, Xiaoqing Zhang, and Jessica...

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History

A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the twentieth century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.“Living conditions among the poor during depression...

The Socialist Case for Nuclear Power

The Socialist Case for Nuclear Power

Nuclear energy is still regarded with skepticism. But nuclear power’s critics wildly overstate its dangers, and preserving and expanding this energy source is essential to a just green transition.The transition away from fossil fuels cannot be accomplished by...

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...

It’s about making trans people unemployable

It’s about making trans people unemployable

By now, you may have seen the story making the rounds. It’s about a University of Oklahoma student named Samantha Fulnecky who received a zero on a psychology essay, filed a discrimination complaint, and got her trans graduate instructor placed on administrative...

Maybe a general strike isn’t so impossible now

Maybe a general strike isn’t so impossible now

Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so extreme that many people are...

Belem COP30 — The Zero COP!

Belem COP30 — The Zero COP!

The two-week meet delivered literally almost no progress in terms of tackling the dangerously high GHG emissions or mounting climate impacts affecting millions.

Automação, atalho para o Comunismo?

Automação, atalho para o Comunismo?

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! MAIS:O texto a seguir é a apresentação do novo livro do...

Feminicídios: a incontornável dimensão colonial

Feminicídios: a incontornável dimensão colonial

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! Jackeline Romio, em entrevista a Glauco Faria O...

“Alexa, o que há de novo no capitalismo?”

“Alexa, o que há de novo no capitalismo?”

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! Este texto foi publicado originalmente no blog...

Breaking News: Discrimination Is Still Alive and Well

Breaking News: Discrimination Is Still Alive and Well

It hasn’t vanished — it has simply evolved, adapted, and embedded itself into every corner of modern life. When former U.S. President Trump—the Discriminator-in-Chief—goes into a frenzy about Somali immigrants and calls them “garbage,” many treat it as a personal...

FOREST FIELD NOTES: Alive Because Someone Cared

FOREST FIELD NOTES: Alive Because Someone Cared

by George Banez The five-course lunch typical of Chinese restaurant fare in Manila foreshadowed the meals I scraped by the next ten days. My sister treated me to a send-off lunch before dropping me off at the airport that day. I had to catch the only flight to Puerto...

“INSIDERS” and “OUTSIDERS”

“INSIDERS” and “OUTSIDERS”

In a conversation with Yannis Varoufakis in 2014, disgraced Jeffrey Epstein associate and former president of Harvard University Larry Summers described the political landscape as consisting of “insiders” and “outsiders.” He explained that outsiders prioritize their...

O triunfo da iliteracia • António Bracinha Vieira

O triunfo da iliteracia • António Bracinha Vieira

Nós, humanos, sempre falámos, mas nem sempre escrevemos. A escrita, acontecimento recente, perto de 5.000 anos, lâmina quase sem espessura na nossa história evolutiva, marca o limiar da passagem da Pré-história para a História: e admitiremos que a perda da escrita...

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...

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...

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...

My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor

My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor

Tarpley Hitt The original doll was not made by Mattel but by a business that perfected its practice making plaster casts of Hitler. The post My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor appeared first on The Nation.

Are Most Americans Even Paying Attention?

Are Most Americans Even Paying Attention?

Elie Mystal In this week’s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent digs into the latest legal news, Trump news, and Nuzzi news—along with a look at how few people actually follow said news. The post Are Most Americans Even Paying Attention? appeared first on...

Lo spettro russo e la cecità dell’Europa

In Ucraina una pace giusta è possibile. Con alcuni punti fermi: l’indipendenza politica e militare dell’Ucraina sorretta da specifiche garanzie, la russizzazione delle province separatiste, uno statuto speciale per la Crimea. L’alternativa è l’autodistruzione...

Val Susa. Avere vent’anni e avere grandi sogni

L’8 dicembre 2005, decine di migliaia di valsusini, incuranti della neve, aggirarono lo schieramento della polizia, presero possesso dei terreni di Venaus dove dovevano iniziare i lavori per la linea ferroviaria Torino-Lione e vi installarono le bandiere “no Tav”....

L’aria della città non rende (più) liberi

L’attitudine delle città ad essere luoghi di autentica convivenza civile, e non meri spazi attraversati da flussi di merci, è logorata dall’omologazione prodotta da globalizzazione e ideologia neoliberista. La politica, soprattutto di destra, si occupa delle città...

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...