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John Bellamy Foster: The epochal crisis -- the combined capitalist economic...
[Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal urges its readers to consider taking out a subscription to Monthly Review, where this article first appeared. Click HERE for more on Marxism and...
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Five years after the economic meltdown: Riches for some, poverty for the rest
Last man standing.By Rupen SavoulianOctober 5, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/Antipodean Atheist-- Five years ago, in September 2008, the giant investment bank Lehman Brothers...
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Global wealth inequality: top 1% own 41%; top 10% own 86%; bottom half own...
By Michael Roberts October 10, 2013 -- Michael Roberts' Blog -- Just 8.4% of all the 5 billion adults in the world own 83.4% of all household wealth (that’s property and financial assets, like...
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Inequality will be the issue for 2014
By Mike Treen,national director of the Unite union (New Zealand)January 14, 2014 -- The Daily Blog, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the permission of the author --...
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Venezuela: The political economy of inflation and investment strikes
Hugo Chavez addresses oil workers in 2007, pushing for more national control of the country's oil.By Oliver LevingstonFebruary 10, 2014 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- This paper...
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How Green is the ‘Green New Deal’?
By Don FitzJuly 9, 2014 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The world has over half a century of experience with programs that claim to help nature or feed the planet while they do...
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Fred Magdoff: Some suggestions for an ecologically sound and socially just...
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Global wealth: 1% own 48%; 10% own 87% and bottom 50% own less than 1%
By Michael RobertsOctober 15, 2014 -- Michael Roberts Blog, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- This time last year, I outlined the results of the Global Wealth report...
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European economic stagnation: diagnoses and treatments
Trade unions in Greece have announced a general strike against austerity to take place on November 27, 2014.By Dick NicholsNovember 4, 2014 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- For 48...
View ArticleMike Treen: A critique of crisis theory
November 10, 2014 -- Mike Treen, Unite Union national director, discusses why capitaism continues to have crises today and why they will continue with increasing severity until working people take...
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Social democracy and neoliberalism: victim or vanguard?
By Damien Cahill, Sydney December 4, 2014 -- Damien Cahill: Thoughts on Politics, Economy and Culture, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission -- Earlier...
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Has the International Monetary Fund reformed?
Click for more by Patrick Bond.By Patrick Bond, DurbanDecember 22, 2014 -- TeleSUR English, submitted to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal by the author -- In a Washington Post op-ed on...
View ArticleGreece: Yanis Varoufakis on the economic crisis and why he is standing for...
ClickHERE for more on SYRIZA.January 13, 2015 -- Yanis Varoufakis, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal-- Beginning at 3.55 minutes, Yanis Varoufakis, professor of economic theory...
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Vincenç Navarro: Why Podemos is a big threat to Spain's political establishment
Pablo Iglesias. Credit: La Veu del País Valencià (CC-BY-SA-3.0).Click for more on Podemos and politics in Spain.January 28, 2015 -- EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics,...
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Mike Treen: Une critique de la théorie des crises
[English text and video at http://links.org.au/node/4156.] Mike Treen, directeur national du syndicat Unite, explique pourquoi le capitalisme continue à connaître des crises aujourd’hui, et pourquoi...
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Greece: Radical Eric Toussaint to audit Greek debt
Zoe Konstantopoulou (centre) with Eric Toussaint (right).By Eric Toussaint, translated by Christine Pagnoulle and Vicki BriaultMarch 21, 2015 -- Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM),...
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Marta Harnecker: The origins of capitalist exploitation
For more by or about Marta Harnecker, click HERE.By Marta Harnecker, translated by María Poblete and Federico FuentesApril 17, 2015 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- This text...
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‘But the banks are made of marble...'
"But the banks are made of marble, with a guard at every door, and the vaults are stuffed with silver, that the worker sweated for ..." -- "The Banks are made of Marble" was written circa 1948 by Les...
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Foreign investment retreats from Africa: Gaming, naming and shaming ‘licit...
Vast public subsidies may be pumped through the new “Programme for Infrastructure Development for Africa”Click for more by Patrick Bond.By Patrick Bond, DurbanAugust 10, 2015 – a version was first...
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China's slowdown foreshadows global slowdown
[More articles by Martin Hart-Landsberg; more on China.] By Martin Hart-LandsbergAugust 14, 2015 -- Reports from the the economic Front, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal --...
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Plan B for Europe - Appeal to build a European area of work in order to end...
By Susan George, Yanis Varoufakis, Ada Colau, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Ken Loach, Noam Chomsky, et. al January 19, 2016 - Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Plan B Europa - In...
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What is to be done with the banks? Radical proposals for radical changes
By John Weeks, Eric Toussaint, Stavros Tombazos, Pritam Singh, Benjamin Selwyn, Alfredo Saad Filho, Patrick Saurin, Sabri Öncü, Susan Pashkoff, Ozlem Onaran, Thomas Marois, Philippe Marlière,...
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European financial system: next crash just around the corner?
By Dick Nichols November 1, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal— The trials of major European banks, starting with “venerable institutions” like the Monte dei Paschi di Siena...
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Financial claims on the world economy
Reviewed by Tony Norfield Finance Capital Today: Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump By François Chesnais Brill, Leiden, 2016 January 10, 2017 – Links International Journal of...
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The US-Turkey standoff in context: Global capitalism and the crisis of hegemony
By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay September 3, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal— Turkey was thrust into a full-blown currency crisis when United States President Donald...
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The coming economic crisis, “unorthodox” monetary policy, and Donald Trump
By Mike Treen September 7,2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from The Daily Blog NZ — What is behind the “unorthodox” monetary policies of the US and other Central...
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What do we mean by neoliberalism?
By Phil Hearse February 5, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Mutiny — In the wake of Labour’s election defeat, the Blairite Right, and its intellectual outriders,...
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When oil markets go viral
By Adam HaniehApril 11, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Verso — The ecological dimensions of COVID-19 have become increasingly prominent in much recent...
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Capitalism’s accumulation crisis prompts attacks on wages and organised labour
By Lisbeth LathamJune 22, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Irish Broad Left — The central driver of the capitalist system is the drive for capitalists to...
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Keynesianism is no long-term solution to the economic crisis
By Lisbeth LathamOctober 7, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Revitalising Labour — The current COVID pandemic has caused massive financial damage to the global...
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