Global Left Midweek – January 3, 2024
Portside
Takeaways from 2023
Takeaways from 2023
Takeaways from 2023
Javier Milei’s Shock Therapy Would Be a Disaster for Working-Class Argentinians
Jacobin
Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, has issued a decree with over 350 reforms tearing up labor rights and privatizing industries. The “shock therapy” plan marks a dangerous expansion of the president’s powers — but it also faces fierce oppositi
Global Left Midweek – December 13, 2023
Portside
Focus on China and Germany
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Public Sector Strikes Are About Aligning Our Society With Its Stated Values
Jacobin
Our society values health care and education in theory, but it constantly undermines them in practice. Public sector workers feel that discrepancy most acutely. They’re striking to force our society to put its money where its mouth is.
‘Frankenstein’ Apartments and Weak Libraries: Is This New York’s Future?
New York Times
After surviving the worst of the pandemic, the city now faces budget cuts that seem to promise even more disruption. The average rent of a Manhattan apartment is now reaching $5,249 a month, an increase of nearly 20 percent over the previous year.
Greece’s Tragic Rail Accident Was Caused by Austerity and Privatization
Jacobin
Last week, two trains collided in central Greece, claiming 57 lives. Unions had long warned that cuts to the now-privatized rail network would cause a severe accident, but neither the government nor the country’s corporate media heeded the calls.
The Word That Makes Brutal Budgets Sound “Truly Evil”
Mother Jones
Austerity was once a conservative rationale for cutting spending. Now, it’s an explanation of the consequences.
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Fire Country Is Brought to You by Austerity, Mass Incarceration, and Climate Change
Jacobin
The new series Fire Country revolves around an incarcerated California firefighter. Based on a real program, the drama is made possible by California’s budget priorities: few resources for climate protection or fire services and abundant investment in prisons.
labor
Ghana’s Unions and Left Reject Bailout Talks With the IMF As Economic Crisis Spirals
People's Dispatch
Ghana initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund to seek a bailout amid a major economic crisis. The Socialist Movement of Ghana and trade unions reject this, arguing it will do nothing to alleviate the economy's structural problems.
The Rotten Roots of the IMF and the World Bank
The Nation
A conversation with Jamie Martin about the imperial origins of the world’s economic governance, imagining an alternative to these institutions, and his new book, The Meddlers.
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