Category: Labor / Economics
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Webinar Educates about US Planned Invasion of Venezuela
Article discusses recent webinar examining Trump’s proposed invasion of Venezuela, examines US relations with Venezuela and Venezuela’s resistance. Link to webinar included inside article.
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The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins: A Book Review Essay
Examines the military coup in Indonesia during Sept-October 1965, in which between 500,000-1 million people were killed, and determines that mass murder was utilized in 23 other countries, either directly supported by the various US governments or at least through their acquiescence.
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No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine by Jeff Schuhrke: A Review Essay
Examines US labor leaders’ support for the Zionist movement for over 100 years, and the growing resistance inside the trade union movement to such.
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Can Socialism Solve the Climate Crisis?
But capital doesn’t care about prices. It cares about profits. Fossil fuels are around three times more profitable than renewables. This is because renewables have a low barrier to entry and are highly competitive (driving prices down), while fossil fuels are more conducive to market control and monopoly pricing.
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What Islamic Finance Brings to Climate Resilience
Conventional wisdom holds that for resource-dependent economies, climate action is a matter of economic survival, while for developing economies, it offers a pathway to sustainable growth and development. But many economies fall into both categories – developing and resource-dependent – compounding the challenge of designing and implementing effective climate strategies. While a comprehensive strategy for…
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Review essay of Hamilton Nolan’s The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Kim Scipes
A critical review of a 2024 book that examines the current state of the US trade union movement.
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Pinky and Perky do the Apocalypse
Two Marxists and an Exceptionalist walk into the Jackpot Bar. A review of two recent “doom” studies.
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Dockworkers in Italy Win Against Arms Shipment to Israel
Dockworkers in Italy secure victory as shipping companies announce return of Israeli-bound weapons cargo to its point of origin.
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‘We Are the Union’: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc: A Book Review Essay by Kim Scipes ISBN: 9780520394919 (paperback), Oakland: University of California Press, 2025
Review of Eric Blanc’s 2025 book ‘We Are the Union’ by long-time labor activist Kim Scipes.
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Largest strike in history brings India to a standstill
The workers’ demands include higher wages, halting privatisation of state-run companies, withdrawal of new labour laws and filling vacancies in the government sector. The farmers’ groups also want the government to increase the minimum purchase price for crops such as wheat and rice.Journalists in the eastern city of Kolkata reported protestors walking in a rally…










