Category: Labor / Economics

Across the world, cities are being remade in the image of global capital. Once messy, vibrant spaces of community, culture and spontaneous life are being sanitised, monitored and packaged for tourism, investment and corporate profit. From the transformation of Amsterdam’s countercultural streets to the rise of “smart cities” driven by surveillance, data extraction and digital…

Cuba’s destruction is the price it must pay for thumbing its nose at the US behemoth. That’s why the left must do all we can to defend Cuba.

The US official asserts that “Cuba needs to change” and that Cubans require “economic freedom.” However, his narrative omits key facts about the social achievements of the Revolution and Washington’s responsibility for the current difficulties.

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.