The recent announcement that Jeff Bezos is donating the bulk of his vast fortune to charity should be recognizable to everyone at this point: it’s a tried-and-true scheme to rehabilitate his public image while avoiding paying taxes.
We need more grand histories. But 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
Of all the internal controversies Occupy generated, the one over whether the movement should adopt specific demands may have been the most significant.
What's next for Canadian workers?
“Do what you love” is the mantra for today’s worker. Why should we assert our class interests if, according to DWYL elites like Steve Jobs, there’s no such thing as work?
Educators must work to end the school-to-prison pipeline.
The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care.
Philanthropy thrills to begging and tolerates activism, but cannot abide a demand from those it wants to save.
Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows that not everything in mainstream economics is worthless.
Democracy isn’t a barrier to solving global issues like climate change. It's humanity’s best hope.
People across the political spectrum support a universal basic income. Socialists must make the anticapitalist case for it.
New movements in Chile are fighting to bring down the country's post-Pinochet establishment.
It's about more than fast-food workers. Fight for 15 is taking on an economic model built off poverty wages.
Syriza founding member Michalis Spourdalakis on what it would take for that party to recover.
A courageous new whistleblower has revealed the terrible extent of President Obama's drone program.
Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.
Mass movements outside the Labour Party brought Jeremy Corbyn to power within it. What will it now take to transform British society?
