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  • Climate

    A Lesson in How Not to Mitigate Climate Change

    29 December 2018, by Andreas Malm

    Capitalist climate governance has always relied on pseudo-reforms that leave the richest free to accumulate capital, while dumping taxes on working people to nudge them in the ’right direction’. But as the protests of the gilets jaunes show, many working people no longer accept the moralising terms of capitalist approaches to climate change. In this article, Andreas Malm argues that if we really want to save this Planet, we must pursue a different kind of climate politics, one that could learn a great deal from the methods and tactics of the gilets jaunes.

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  • China’s Corporate Debt: On the Way to Crisis? Part 1

    An Overview of Chinese Debt

    28 December 2018, by Éric Toussaint

    Are Chinese corporations overleveraged? Since the central government injected massive sums of money in the economy as part of a stimulus plan to fight the Great Recession, debt levels in the Chinese economy have skyrocketed.

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  • Asia and Europe in Changing Geopolitics, Rising Powers, Peoples’ Security

    26 December 2018, by Achin Vanaik, Anuradha Chenoy

    Major trends of changing geopolitics impact Asia and Europe and provide space for positive interventions from peace movements for people’s security. Even as the rise of Asia is seen as impacting international geopolitics the current reality in the Asian Continent is as follows:

    Most riven by nationalist tensions of various kinds, religious, ethnic or otherwise.

    Uncertain implications of China’s general rise even as no other country has so many neighbours (14) although border demarcations with most (12) have been agreed upon.

    Four of the five most significant world powers (as evaluated by population size/total GDP/military strength) operate here – Russia, China, India, Japan – plus two other emerging powers of Turkey and Indonesia.

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  • Class struggle

    Adam Smith and the Yellow Vest Movement.

    25 December 2018, by Éric Toussaint

    It is sad to see how completely misrepresented Adam Smith (1723-1790) is when pundits call upon him to vindicate neoliberalism and the status quo. It seems many have not really bothered to read his works.

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