Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
When it comes to buying stuff online, American workers have it made. But when it comes to “mass services” — transportation, housing, education, health insurance, and childcare — American workers are getting fleeced.
It’s good that college-educated workers are unionizing. But it doesn’t tell us much about the working class as a whole.
From the earliest days of American history through the first decades of the 20th century, Americans rose up repeatedly to beat back rising food costs. They did so out of the belief that all members of the community had the right to a just price for bread.
Postwar Italy’s “escalator” system kept wages ahead of price hikes. In the 1980s, a socialist government brought it grinding to a halt — sending workers’ incomes on a decades-long downward trend.
As war rages in Ukraine, farmers have abandoned their work mid-season to take up arms against Russia. Those who stayed behind are in a race to harvest their crops before stray rockets torch their fields.
Not every 1960s folk singer was a comrade.
Children of the Weimar Republic play with devalued banknotes, 1919. Others found use for the worthless marks as wallpaper, craft and kite material, and kindling.
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
Sinn Féin is now the leading party across Ireland. But its real test will happen in power.
The widespread popular upheaval known as the “Arab Spring” ended one decade ago this year. Tunisia, whose Jasmine Revolution inspired many other demonstrations in 2011, is the only country to participate that still has an intact democracy. But even Tunisia now slouches back toward authoritarianism.
The Federal Reserve’s response to inflation is bad for workers — but it doesn’t need to be.
Beneath the strings and sequins, the Sound of Philadelphia was the backing track to the economic crisis that hit black America in the 1970s.
Venti cappuccino in one hand and a ballot in the other, the Starbucks organizing drive is on a roll.
As standards of living fall at the bottom and rise at the top, the only thing to do is watch TV about the trivial problems of the phenomenally rich.
Canada’s health system is both more efficient and more equitable than its US counterpart. But its achievements have been undermined by years of government underinvestment, leading to the growth of outsourcing to private clinics.
How “thinking like an economist” has thwarted progress in America.
Moderates claim that Biden’s BBB failed because it simply “went too far.” The truth is that even if it had passed, it would have excluded scores of working families.
What’s sitting on the nightstand of the legendary Greek economist?
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, had a mandate for change. He used it to build a police state and buy coin.
