Capitalism

Spain Approves 'Solidarity' Tax to Make Nation's Top 0.1% Pay a Fairer Share

01/10/22
Author: 
Kenny Stancil
Link: 
Common Dreams
Spanish Finance Minister María Jesús Montero addresses the senate on December 9, 2021 in Madrid. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Sept. 30, 2022

The country's finance minister said that looming changes are bound to make the tax code "more progressive, efficient, fair, and also enough to guarantee social justice and economic efficiency."

Spain's leftist coalition government on Thursday announced a series of downwardly redistributive fiscal reforms—including a temporary "solidarity" tax on the nation's 23,000 wealthiest residents—that lawmakers hope will ease the cost-of-living crisis hurting millions of working people.

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'Time to Take to the Streets': Working Class Hold 'Enough Is Enough' Rallies Across UK

01/10/22
Author: 
Julia Conley
Link: 
Common Dreams
Demonstrators protest outside 10 Downing Street in London on September 5, 2022, against the U.K. government's handling of the cost of living crisis as one-in-three British households is predicted to face fuel poverty this winter amid surging energy prices. (Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Sept. 30, 2022

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Labour - Unions
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ClimateNews Rich countries fail to strengthen climate plans ahead of UN deadline

01/10/22
Author: 
Saphora Smith
Link: 
Independent
Earth barreling towards ‘uncharted territory', climate report warns

Sept. 27, 2022

The majority of the G20 failed to submit new or strengthened plans to cut emissions to the UN by September deadline

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Eight Reasons Why There Hasn't Been a Global Climate Revolt Yet

01/10/22
Author: 
Tamara Pearson
Link: 
Common Dreams
Youth activists protest against climate inaction on the sidelines of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland on November 5, 2021. (Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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Sept. 29 2022

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Capitalism
Climate Change
Key Articles
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
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Fed Rate Hikes Won't Stop Profiteering Behind Inflation

26/09/22
Author: 
Kenny Stancil
Link: 
Nation of Change
money

Sept. 23, 2022

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Poilievre Doesn’t Understand The Central Bank’s Real Problems

24/09/22
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Link: 
Passage
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Sept. 23, 2022

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Canada
Capitalism
Carbon pricing
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Labour - Unions
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Reversing the Freight Train - The Case for Degrowth

20/09/22
Author: 
Geoff Mann
Link: 
London Review of Books
Geoff Mann

Website Editor: Some very interesting points on degrowth  issues and more.

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Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
Global
Green New Deal/LEAP
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Employers — Not Workers — Are to Blame for the Labor Crisis

19/09/22
Author: 
David Moscrop
Link: 
Jacobin
Canada's "labor crisis" is actually a wage crisis. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

09.18.2022

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Canada
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Chile's Rejection of the Draft Constitution

13/09/22
Author: 
Camila Vergara
Link: 
New Left Review
A Santiago protester holds up a placard reading “Wake Up Chile” on September 5, the day after Chilean voters overwhelmingly rejected the country's new Constitution in a referendum vote. (Photo by Javier Torres / AFP)

Sept. 9. 2022

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Capitalism
Indigenous Peoples
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Robots Multiplying--Helping or Replacing Workers?

10/09/22
Author: 
Peter S. Goodman
Link: 
New York Times
LocusBots at Locus Robotics, a Massachusetts company that aims to automate warehouses with robots.Credit...Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

This article reminds me of a cartoon I saw 50+ years ago: Henry Ford and a union leader are overlooking an assembly line. Ford says, "No workers here are going on strike!" The union leader replies, "Nope, and none who will buy Fords either."

                    -- Gene McGuckin

Sept. 7, 2022

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