COVID-19 and the Global Economy
A lecture and Q&A with Jayati Ghosh on the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and the periphery in particular
New Book: Crises and Hegemonic Transitions – From Gramsci’s Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy
By Lorenzo Fusaro. From Haymarket Books: Tracing the vicissitudes of US hegemony from the interwar period to the prese
Samir Amin: The Organic Intellectual
Taking as its point of departure this documentary, itself a feature of 50 books by Samir Amin, depicts the audacious str
New Book: Into the Tempest – Essays on the New Global Capitalism
By William I. Robinson. From Haymarket Books: In this critical new work, sociologist William I. Robinson offers an eng
Post-Crisis Capital Controls in the Periphery – Regaining Policy Space?
By Ilias Alami, I have made the case for thinking politically about capital controls. This is particularly impo
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
By Intan Suwandi, R. Jamil Jonna and John Bellamy Foster (originally posted at Monthly Review), Twenty-first-centur
The Real History of Imperialism: A Comment by James Parisot on Recent Debates
By James Parisot, The continuing debate over contemporary imperialism triggered by John Smith’s criticisms of David
The Roots of Marx’s Anti-Colonialism
By Thierry Drapeau, In his film The Young Karl Marx, director Raoul Peck features a scene where an anonymous Frenchman o
ILO: Global wage growth lowest since 2008, women still earning 20 per cent less than men
The latest ILO Global Wage report finds global wage growth has been weak while the gender pay gap, at about 20 per cent glo
New Book: World in Crisis – Marxist Perspectives on Crash & Crisis
Edited by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts. From Haymarket Books: The most comprehensive empirically based de
RIP, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that the pioneering political economist Samir Amin has passed. May he Rest In Pow
Call for papers on finance & power for Transnational Institute (TNI) State of Power 2019
TNI’s annual State of Power reports have, since their launch in 2012, become a must-see reference point for citizens, a
The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub
Fadhel Kaboub, associate professor of economics at Denison University and President of the Binzagr Institute for Sus
Minqi Li – China’s political economy and the future of North-South relations
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-3UltHAfRU&w=640&h=360] Minqi Li, Professor of Economics
New Book: Feminist Freedom Warriors – Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope
Edited by Linda Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. From Haymarket Books: A collection of compelling narratives highl
New Book: The Russians Are Coming, Again – The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
by Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano. From Monthly Review Press: Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire o