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1st May 2020Build a better future for the working people in times of multiple crises (This statement is prepared by Left parties and labour organisations in the Southeast Asia, and endorsed by groups from within and outside the region.)In recent months, the world has been severely affected and paralyzed by the spread of the coronavirusContinueContinue reading “Joint Statement for May Day 2020”

By Michael Roberts Reprinted from “Michael Roberts Blog blogging from a Marxist economist” https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-post-pandemic-slump/ The coronavirus pandemic marks the end of longest US economic expansion on record, and it will feature sharpest economic contraction since WWII. https://thenextrecession.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/pan-1.png The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strikeContinueContinue reading “The post-pandemic slump”

Organized by Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Philippines) Dahil umatras si ASEC Dominique Rubia-Tutay sa pagiging guest, ang guest speakers sa session natin ngayon ay si Atty. Luke Espiritu, BMP President at Labor Representative ng National Tripartite Executive Council ng DOLE, at si Ka Leody De Guzman, Chairman ng BMP at Spokesperson ng PAGGAWA.

Speakers were Dr. Reihana Mohideen from the Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM, Phillipines); Dr. Kumar Jeyakumar, the ‘red’ medical doctor, Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM); Kavita Krishnan, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) and All India Progressive Women’s Association, and Dr. Hawzhin Azeez is a Kurdish academic and feminist who specializes in gender and MiddleContinueContinue reading “Online Forum “Covid19 & The Global South””

Panellists included: – Professor Jayati Ghosh, award-winning economist Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Author of India and the International Economy (2015) and co-editor of Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2018. – Quinn Slobodian, associate professor of history, Wellesley College. Author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018) – WaldenContinueContinue reading “Webinar on “The Coming Global Recession: Building and Internationalist Response””

By Hans A Baer April 16, 2020 Reprinted from Green Left Weekly While a growing number of critical scholars acknowledge that global capitalism constitutes the overarching driver of anthropogenic climate change, one of the smaller elephants in the room has been the aviation industry. The number of aeroplane flights worldwide has been growing — atContinueContinue reading “Aeroplanes and COVID-19: Another contradiction of global capitalism”

by TAMARA PEARSON Reprinted from CounterPunch I’m squatting on a round piece of concrete, and a 72-year-old man is sitting in the gutter, his walking stick beside him. He tells me that after being deported from the United States, he has been hiking the streets of Mexico City trying to find somewhere to stay. But allContinueContinue reading “The Self-Centered Rich Country Response to Pandemics and Crises is Wrecking Poor Countries”

Press StatementApril 17, 2020 Disastrous Rigidity With the world reeling from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that the assumption that the crisis can be dealt with using the usual set of orthodox tools is exceedingly flawed. Recognizing the extraordinary nature of the global crisis, even the World Bank andContinueContinue reading “Freedom from Debt Coalition”

The Covid-19 crisis has lead to a huge drop in the demand for, and price of, oil globally. In this article, Adam Hanieh looks at what this might mean for the global economy. Reprinted from Verso The ecological dimensions of COVID-19 have become increasingly prominent in much recent discussion, with several important contributions exploring the pandemic inContinueContinue reading “When Oil Markets Go Viral”

By Reihana Mohideen Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM), International Head We can’t go back to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem —  this graffiti, scrawled on a wall in Hongkong, has become a universal slogan capturing the essence of the crisis we face, now being revealed to millions more people,ContinueContinue reading “For Socialist Solutions to the Capitalist Crises”