The value of the federal minimum wage has reached its lowest point in 66 years, according to an EPI analysis of recently released Consumer Price Index (CPI) data.
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Despite domestic priorities, RBI will have to follow the U.S. Fed
India will have to respond by increasing interest rates further sooner rather than later. Higher U.S. interest rates make global capital abandon other countries and rush to American bonds whose market yields have doubled at the shorter end.
Rebuilding collective intelligence
Human capital theory cannot solve our economic woes. David Ridley says we need a socialist alternative.
U.S. political prisoner Mutulu Shakur has six months to live. Will courts finally grant compassionate release?
Renowned revolutionary leader and health worker Mutulu Shakur has spent over three decades in prison. As his cancer worsens, activists are demanding his release.
From commodity fetishism to teleological positing: Lukács’s concept of labor and its relevance
The concept of labor constituted a pivotal problematic in Georg Lukács’s theoretical development throughout his Marxist years.
Studying society for the working class: Marx’s first preface to “Capital”
In the preface to the first edition of volume one of Capital, dated July 25, 1867, Marx introduces the book’s “ultimate aim”: “to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society”. Looking back 155 years later, it’s clear the book not only accomplished that aim...
What’s behind the escalating attacks on trans people?
Thirty-one members of the white supremacist Patriot Front from across the U.S. were detained after preparing an assault on a Pride festival in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, June 12.
Trump returns to Washington D.C. to lay out his police state agenda before cheering Republican officials
On Tuesday, Donald Trump spoke to an audience of Republican lawmakers and former Trump administration officials in his first public appearance in Washington D.C. since leaving office on January 20, 2021.
Cuban culture is a militant of life, not at the side of the people but within them
We come to this National Council three years after the Congress and two of them in pandemic, without pause in the follow-up to the agreements of that long, deep and critical meeting that opened the way to some solutions and a thousand more challenges.
What’s behind the escalating attacks on trans people?
Thirty-one members of the white supremacist Patriot Front from across the U.S. were detained after preparing an assault on a Pride festival in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, June 12.
Trump returns to Washington D.C. to lay out his police state agenda before cheering Republican officials
On Tuesday, Donald Trump spoke to an audience of Republican lawmakers and former Trump administration officials in his first public appearance in Washington D.C. since leaving office on January 20, 2021.
Cuban culture is a militant of life, not at the side of the people but within them
We come to this National Council three years after the Congress and two of them in pandemic, without pause in the follow-up to the agreements of that long, deep and critical meeting that opened the way to some solutions and a thousand more challenges.