This is How It Starts
By Michael Meeropol, Early in the campaign for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, I stated that I believed D
Can Twenty-First Century Fascism Resolve the Crisis of Global Capitalism?
By William I. Robinson, “I can tell you that I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the sup
Richard D. Wolff: Linking Trump and Marx’s Critique of Capitalism
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGpApcvGiU&w=640&h=360] Richard D. Wolff is an American Ma
Trump’s Trade Policy & How to Respond to It
By Paddy Quick, It is important to distinguish between “trade” policy, i.e. policy that focuses on imports and exports
New Book: Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited – Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump
By Joseph E. Stiglitz. From W.W. Norton: In this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned eco
The Political Economy of Obama/Trump
By Richard D. Wolff, US capitalism is again careening down blind alleys. Earlier it had crashed into the Great Depressi
New Book: Trump in the White House – Tragedy and Farce
by John Bellamy Foster with a foreword by Robert W. McChesney. From Monthly Review Press: Remember that metaphor about
New Book: Trumponomics – Causes and Consequences
Edited by Edward Fullbrook and Jamie Morgan. From WEA Books: Two things seem generally agreed about Donald Trump’s ele
White Working-Class Voters and the Future of Progressive Politics
by Michael Zweig Rather than speaking of the working class in terms that reduce it to only categories of race and gender,
James Cypher: Military Spending in the Swampland
By James Cypher, On September 11, 1941, the U.S. War Department commenced construction of its new headquarters, the Pe
Gerald Epstein on The Political Economy of Trumponomics
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Trumponomics: Should We Just Say “No”?
by Gerald Epstein Trumponomics, argues this economist, may look like Reaganomics, but it is more about political powe
Mike Davis on Trump and the White Working Class
by Mike Davis, History has been hacked. Trump’s “impossible” victories in June and November, together with the stunni
Will Washington’s New Pro-Moscow, Anti-Beijing Gang Drive a Wedge Through the BRICS in 2017?
By Patrick Bond, The weeks following an underwhelming Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) mid-Septem
It Can Happen Here: The rise of a right-wing nationalist regime in the United States
By David Kotz, On November 8 the rise of a right-wing nationalist regime in the United States became a realistic possibi
Homecoming to Nostalgia: The Inauguration of Donald J. Trump
By Cyrus Bina, “In a time of universal deceit, Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell When the entire
Verso Books: F@ck Trump Reading List
The 2.9 million people who marched as part of the Women’s March on Washington on January 21st send an inspiring message t
Social Justice & Trump
The journal Social Justice has put together a collection of recent blogs-articles on the social justice impact of Trum
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Politics of the Oppressed
Ahead of the Women’s March on Washington, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of rom #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberat
Trump, Republicans & the War on Women
By Susan Pashkoff Those that have been watching the right-wing war on women for at least a decade may think that all we are