Capitalism

15/10/20
Author: 
Gabriel Rockhill
man with pig's head signalling 'shhh" Art by Nick Roney

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“The intellectuals cast a veil over the dictatorial character of bourgeois democracy not least by presenting democracy as the absolute opposite of fascism, not as just another natural phase of it where the bourgeois dictatorship is revealed in a more open form.”

– Bertolt Brecht

12/10/20
Author: 
BofASecurities

For the future of the world’s economies and the people who live in them, climate change can no longer be ignored—and investors may have a role to play.

 

08/10/20
Author: 
CBC the Current
Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR

Oct. 9, 2020

[Editor: This is really a must listen to!]

The federal government announced plans Wednesday to ban six kinds of single-use plastics by the end of next year. Laura Sullivan, investigative correspondent for NPR, discusses why — despite the hype — recycling isn't keeping that plastic out of landfills.

07/10/20

This important Ecosocialist Manifesto, published by the Green Left emerges out of Australia in preparation for the forthcoming conference, Ecosocialism 2020: From rebellion to revolution, supported by the Socialist Alliance. It will be open for further discussion and development through a series of Ecosocialism conferences in several cities across Australia in late October.

07/10/20
Author: 
Michael Lowy

Ecosocialism and the de-growth movement are among the most important currents of the ecological left. Ecosocialists agree that a significant measure of de-growth in production and consumption is necessary in order to avoid ecological collapse.

06/10/20
Author: 
Sarah Anderson
To get a sense of the potential impact on specific companies, consider McDonald’s. Last year, CEO Stephen Easterbrook made $17.4 million before stepping down in November. (Photo: Mike Mozart/flickr/cc)

October 05, 2020

The city's Board of Supervisors has placed a proposal on the November 3 ballot that would increase taxes on corporations with extreme gaps between CEO and median worker pay.

CEOs did not cause the pandemic. But they deserve a good deal of the blame for a model that shoveled profits up the corporate ladder, leaving lower-level employees financially insecure. When Covid-19 struck, it didn’t take much to push millions of vulnerable workers over the edge.

01/10/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Jurisdictions across Canada must identify and take advantage of “life-saving programs,” says Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, shown here in March. Photo by Kamara Morozuk

October 1st 2020

One-third of the 16,364 people who died from opioid overdoses over a roughly four-year period in Canada were in British Columbia, according to new national data released Wednesday.

01/10/20
Author: 
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Politics That Led to the “Worst Debate”

01 Oct 2020

The incoherence of the Biden-Trump debate will be repeated every election cycle until Blacks and progressives break with the corporate duopoly.

There is nothing smart or ‘strategic’ about falling for the same trick every election cycle.”

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