Holding the government accountable for its lack of preparedness is crucial. However, given the sheer scale of the impact of the climate crisis on the Global South, talking about adaptation has its limitations.
This week: left economists cut through the baloney, rumblings of general strike, and a guide to wrecking your party
Being in debt obliges people to work more and more, no matter how precarious the conditions. Debt, in other words, produces obedience, and it affects women differently to men.
The victory followed a two-week hunger strike and two months of sit-ins.
How Covid-19 Affects Capitalism, How We Cope, and How We Can Respond
High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money. Technically, the warrants are issued for missing court hearings. For many, that’s a distinction without a difference.
Private creditors have replaced the public sector as lead borrower to developing countries, which has contributed to a new borrowing and lending boom.
As living conditions in Puerto Rico continue to deteriorate students and young workers from the island will continue to flood those places where family connections and job opportunities pull them. Not all will be targets of violence because of their multiple identities, as the Orlando victims were. Their fate, however, will continue to be a reminder of how invisible forces pattern seemingly random events in the lives of individuals and communities.
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