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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,...

Despliegue aeronaval del Comando Sur llegó para quedarse

Despliegue aeronaval del Comando Sur llegó para quedarse

Carlos Fazio Acicateado por Pete Hegseth y Marco Rubio, la opción de Donald Trump por el poder duro persigue fines geopolíticos ante la irrupción de China en su “patio trasero”, lo que podría derivar en una confrontación bélica de signo incierto   Detrás del ruido...

España, Países Bajos, Irlanda y Eslovenia se retiran de Eurovisión

España, Países Bajos, Irlanda y Eslovenia se retiran de Eurovisión

Armando Tejeda-La Jornada La presencia de Israel fue el motivo del estallido de la crisis, que acabó con la retirada de hasta cuatro países europeos, España, Países Bajos, Irlanda y Eslovenia, del concurso de música popular Eurovision, que se emite desde 1956 y que a...

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.

War Crimes and Pete Hegseth’s Lust for Blood

Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-traffickers making passage on the sea from Venezuela to a watery grave has a millenarian...

How to Read the New National Security Strategy Document

The New US National Security Strategy (NSS) has been released.  This is a critically important document prepared by every administration that sets out the United States’ national security priorities, along with a formulation of the strategy & policies it proposes...

The World Cup Shouldn’t Be Trump’s Toy

The World Cup Shouldn’t Be Trump’s Toy

FIFA’s newly announced peace prize for Donald Trump is a craven act of stroking his ego. The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be among the worst cases yet of sports bending to politics.Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw 2026 World Cup matches from cities with...

We Need More Leftist Crime Fiction

We Need More Leftist Crime Fiction

Critics of crime fiction dismiss the genre as hopelessly reactionary, but its history tells a different story. From hard-boiled American detective novels to the explosion of Scandi-noir, crime fiction has been deeply influenced by socialist writers.Humphrey Bogart...

Colombia Is Showing the World How to End Israeli Impunity

Colombia Is Showing the World How to End Israeli Impunity

President Gustavo Petro’s efforts to halt the genocide in Gaza have brought Colombia into conflict with the neoliberal order. To hold Israel accountable, nations will have to challenge their free-trade agreements and reclaim their economic sovereignty.Gustavo Petro...

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...

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...

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...

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...