Category: Labor / Economics

Why should 5, 7 or 9 per cent growth ultimately matter unless sustained growth gives us more productive jobs, greater investment in education and health, rising real incomes, greater household savings and asset ownership, better public services, declining vulnerability and a progressively wider distribution of economic security?

“The book isn’t just a celebration of the past, but an encouragement to see what we can learn to help us today” (Scipes, p. ix, 2026,). Dr. Kim Scipes’ Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building A Progressive Labor Movement is a commemoration of one union’s distinctive approach to social justice unionism that should change the…

The IMF and World Bank are not subjects the corporate media cover in any real sense. Instead, their role is treated as unquestionably immutable and beneficial.

Marty Hart-Landsberg cuts through the fog of AI hype to outline some of the dangers we face from AI use and highlight avenues of effective resistance.

Since 2012, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has implemented a collaborative food storage programme. In this, regional reserves “allow countries to pool resources, spread fiscal burdens, collaboratively achieve efficiency gains, and reduce overall stockpile sizes.”

Russia says it is Cuba’s strategic ally. They repeat it at every summit. In every communiqué. On every anniversary of our bilateral relations. But the oil is not arriving. The ships do not appear. And the electric power blackouts continue to happen.

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the onset of the civil war and revolution in Spain. In this essay I suggest that the efforts of the Spanish working class in that epic conflict provide elements for building a model of socialism based on direct working-class control and participatory, democratic planning of a socialized economy.

Six months after the United States intensified pressure on countries supplying oil to Cuba, the island faces a deepening energy and economic crisis. Fuel shortages have contributed to prolonged power cuts, disrupted public transport, strained hospitals and water systems, and made it harder to move food from rural areas to cities. Vijay Prashad examines the…

Review of Kim Scipes’ new (2026) book, which is a comparative historical study of the development of unionization in the steel and meatpacking industries in Chicago and Northwest Indiana between 1933-1955, and examines how each union addressed white supremacy and racism in workplaces, the union, and in the communities in which workers lived.

This article examines how debt, financial dependence, military alliances, and technological control continue to shape power relations across Asia long after formal colonial rule. Drawing on discussions at the Hands Off Asia conference in Colombo, it explores perspectives from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Thailand on economic sovereignty, democratic struggles, and the enduring impact of international…