Category: Labor / Economics

There is nothing easier than labeling and disqualifying. It puts an end to any discussion, any nuance, any attempt to understand what we are experiencing—and what we will experience.

Mexico is facing a familiar problem—one that has shaped its history for more than a century. How do you protect your sovereignty when you live next door to a superpower that sees your country less as an equal and more as a strategic asset?

In this vision, the economy is nonexploitative and radically egalitarian. Infrastructure, resources, and goods and services related to health, education, water, and energy are treated as a commons. Production is localized. The economy is diverse, with cooperatives and nonprofits predominating and production for markets confined to a far smaller role than it had in precapitalist…

The urban population not directly involved in cultivation would use this currency extensively, to purchase food, clothing made from local natural fabrics, etc. in local shops or agroecological markets. In other words, a highly relocalised economy could be organised based on resilient pillars such as labour, productive land and local renewable energy, driven by the…

As a recent survey of almost 10,000 workers by Germany’s almost two-million-member service workers’ trade union Ver.di shows, the five-day work week does not exist, for example, in care work. Yet, for them and for other workers, working time remains very important for private life and recreation.

In the drought-scarred hills of Rajasthan’s tribal Ghatol block, women are transforming despair into dignity and self-determination. From securing water through irrigation schemes to rescuing indigenous seeds and navigating bureaucratic hurdles, ordinary women are leading extraordinary change. With no formal education but fierce resolve, they are rewriting the narrative of marginalisation — freeing families from…

Argentina and the United States have signed a trade agreement in which our country assumes 113 obligations, while only 8 are mutual duties and 2 are solely for the US. The official document, which was published in English by the US embassy itself, does not include the benefits promised by the Argentine Foreign Ministry.

India is becoming a laboratory for a global experiment in dispossession. Under the banner of “reforms” and “market confidence,” indigenous agrarian systems are being dismantled, farmers pushed into debt, and food transformed from a public good into a speculative corporate asset. From backdoor privatisation of seeds to the capture of food policy by global agri-cartels,…

Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

Western politicians and journalists often claim that China is doing “colonialism” in Africa. This narrative has roots in US government discourse going back nearly two decades, and is exemplified by a US Congressional hearing that was held under the headline “China in Africa: The New Colonialism?” To claim that China is exercising colonial power within…