Capitalism

Learning From UAW History And Taking Control Of Work Reductions

December 14, 2025 Nevena Pilipovic-Wengler and Andrew Bergman, Left Voice. Strategize! Capitalism, History, Job Banks, Layoffs, United Auto Workers (UAW), Worker Rights and Jobs

On the morning of October 29, autoworkers at Factory Zero, the GM electric vehicle plant in Detroit, received an urgent notification about the status of our two-month temporary layoff. For over 1,100 of us working in the plant, the news was that we would have to return to work on Thanksgiving week, only to be indefinitely laid off in January. As the bosses reduce production from two shifts down to one, the holidays are bringing uncertainty and precarity, rather than comfort and stability. Over the past year, hundreds of workers at Factory Zero have already been impacted by rolling layoffs and termination of temporary workers, often announced without notice.

The American Dream, We Hardly Knew You

December 9, 2025 John Miller, Dollars and Sense. Educate! American Dream, Capitalism, Social Mobility, Wages, wealth inequality

If Americans’ hopes of getting ahead have dimmed, as the Wall Street Journal reports yet again, it could only be because the lid of the coffin in which the “American Dream” was long ago laid to rest has finally been sealed shut. The promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will get ahead, or if you don’t, surely your children will, was broken long ago. And today’s economic hardships have left young adults distinctly worse off than their parents, and especially their grandparents. This long decline has stripped away much of what there was of U.S. social mobility, which never did measure up to its mythic renderings.

Campbell’s Executive ‘Revelations’ Expose Rot Of Capitalism

December 6, 2025 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. Educate! Campbell's, Capitalism, Food Production, health, Poverty

In a moment of breathtaking — and allegedly accidental — candor, a Campbell’s Soup executive was recently caught on tape letting the truth slip. “We have sh*t for f*cking poor people,” allegedly declared Campbell’s Vice President Martin Bally, before admitting he barely eats the company’s products himself because they’re “not healthy” and contain “bioengineered meat.” Now, it’s reported, the company has decided to “dismiss” (aka fire) the VP for his comments in an effort to save face. The same company that sells us nostalgic, heartwarming commercials featuring sweet old snowmen is, in the boardroom, run by people who openly acknowledge they peddle often unhealthy foods to the working class and poor.

The Earth Is Unhappy With The Capitalist Climate Catastrophe

December 5, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Capitalism, climate crisis, COP30, Environment, Global North, Global South

During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Belém do Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell gave a rousing speech. Stiell, from Grenada, came to his post after a long career in the corporate sector and then as his country’s environment and climate resilience minister under the pro-corporate New National Party. In his speech he said that ‘denial, division, and geopolitics [have] dealt international cooperation some heavy blows this year’.

The Consequences Of Imperialist Arrogance

November 17, 2025 Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. Educate! Capitalism, Energy, European Union (EU), Foreign Policy, History, Oil and Gas, Western imperialism

In almost all the tragedies of ancient Greek theater, the protagonist has committed a fatal moral offense which leads them to a deadly outcome, almost always facilitated by their overweening arrogance. In the case of the progressive collapse of the collective West, one is dealing with five centuries of countless crimes of genocidal conquest and slavery. But their hateful culture of arrogance does not allow Western leaders to admit that they owe the wealth and political-military power of their countries to this genocidal criminality. This arrogance in the face of the collective West’s decline gets expressed in diplomatic bad faith and unilateral aggression, exacerbating the lack of cooperation and trust that characterizes the current international crisis.

US Inequality Is Way Past Revolution Time

November 14, 2025 Lee Camp, Substack. Educate! Capitalism, Children, Class Struggle, Inequality, Poverty

One would think that perhaps the greatest benefit of being a cog in the wheel of a bloodthirsty, predatory, wholly unaccountable, rapacious global empire is being rich. Not rich in an Elon Musk / Monopoly Guy kinda way but rich in a not languishing in poverty kinda way. …But this is not true. A large percentage of Americans never get to touch the spoils of hegemony. “Over 40% of the U.S. population—including 48.9% of children—is considered poor or low income.” You read that right. According to a new Oxfam report, half of all American children live in poor or low-income homes. …HALF.

Civil Disobedience: Preventing Tyranny

November 13, 2025 Mick Hall, Consortium News. Strategize! Capitalism, Civil Disobedience, History, Police

Australian psychiatrist and author Dr. Niall McLaren believes civil disobedience presents a means of stopping domination hierarchies in a society spiraling towards outright fascism. McLaren believes humans have a natural disposition towards forms of domination and if left unchecked, a political system of “narcisso-fascism” arises. McLaren told In Context: We see this playing out in the world every day, but none clearer than in the U.S., where their president is obsessed to the point of mania with forcing everybody to do as he tells them: ‘Do as we say or we’ll slap tariffs and sanctions on you, we’ll deport you or blow you up.’ He doesn’t care how much he damages people or even his own country, as long as he can order people around, he’s happy. As is typical, he constantly tests the limits.

Anti-Capitalist Book Fair Connects Activists And Progressive Literature

November 4, 2025 Ashleigh-Rae Thomas, Rabble.ca. Organize! Book Fairs, Capitalism, Education, Socialism

The second annual Anti-Capitalist Book Fair took place in Toronto on October 19. Created by Camilo Cahis Marxist Publishing House, the Anti-Capitalist Book Fair aimed to supply leftists, curious onlookers, and seasoned activists in Toronto with progressive literature. Christina Olanick, a graphic designer and organizer at Camilo Cahis Marxist Publishing House, says the book fair started because there’s a ‘real hunger’ for socialist and communist ideas. “It’s really obvious that capitalism isn’t working,” Olanick said of the importance of the book fair.

The Future Requires A Politics Of Relationality

November 2, 2025 David Bollier. Create! Capitalism, climate crisis, Liberation, The Commons

At a time when the superstructures of human civilization seem terminally messed up – unable to address climate collapse, authoritarian capitalism, among many other wicked problems – I was thrilled to encounter a book that dares to imagine a fresh and compelling way forward. The book, Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human, is a big-hearted and poetic yet rigorous scholarly book. On my latest episode of Frontiers of Commoning (Episode #68), I interviewed the three authors -- noted anthropologist Arturo Escobar and global studies professor Michal Osterweil, both at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Kriti Sharma, a professor of critical race science and technology studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Interview With Katya Schwenk On AI Surveillance Pricing

October 30, 2025 Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Capitalism, pricing, Surveillance

ou go to buy a ticket for a flight; you think the price is the price, but, in fact, the airline is using lots of available information about you to present the highest price they think you will pay. Yes, airlines have always tweaked prices based on status or frequency of flying, but this is different. This is companies using information you didn’t share with them, determining what they, openly among themselves, call your “pain point,” the maximum you will spend before you say, “OK, I just won’t see my mother this year.” Some insist this is just the market at work, but what can we do if we decide it’s actually an instance of using technology to do something because it can, without adequate consideration of whether it should?

Understanding The Changes Unseen In A Century

October 29, 2025 Carlos Martinez, Friends of Socialist China. Educate! Capitalism, China, History, Socialism, Xi Jinping

General Secretary Xi Jinping has observed several times that “the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century”. What are these changes, and what are their implications for the current global situation? Before addressing the changes the world is experiencing today, it is worthwhile reflecting on the major changes that occurred a century ago, since the dramatic shifts of that time laid the foundations for the transformations we are witnessing now. The October Revolution of 1917 was a watershed moment marking the beginning of humanity’s transition from capitalism to socialism.

John Geyman On The Growing Costs Of US Health Care

October 15, 2025 Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter. Educate! Capitalism, Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers

You know health care costs are starting to hit home when Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene raises the red flag. In a posting on Twitter last week, the Republican Congresswoman from Georgia broke from Republican leadership in the House. “I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to double, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district,” she wrote. “No I’m not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games. I’m a Republican and won’t vote for illegals to have any taxpayer funded health care or benefits.”

Billionaire Wealth Concentration Is Even Worse Than You Imagine

October 4, 2025 Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo, Inequality.org. Educate! Billionaires, Capitalism, Poverty, wealth inequality

The share of the U.S. wealth pie owned by the top 0.1 percent grew 59.6 percent from 1989 to 2024, according to an Institute for Policy Studies analysis of Federal Reserve data, while the share of the U.S. wealth pie owned by the bottom 50 percent of households has declined 26.1 percent, adjusted for inflation. This bottom half of households in America — 66 million of them — had $4.1 trillion all together at the end of 2024. The 905 billionaires in the United States hold a combined $7.8 trillion in wealth, according to Forbes data from September 29, 2025. This alarming narrowing of wealth has given those at the very top political influence and power that undermines our democracy.

A Vision Of A Post-Capitalist Eco-Localism That Works

October 4, 2025 David Bollier. Educate! Capitalism, climate crisis, The Commons, Transformation

What might the world look like if climate change is not stopped? What if societies refuse to, or cannot rein in capitalism and its relentless growth and exploitation of nature? Chris Smaje, a writer and farmer in southwest England, offers some intelligent speculation in his recently published book, Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft. Smaje is not a doomer or survivalist, nor given to lurid prophesy. His book is a serious analysis of current macro-political and social trends and how they might play out in everyday life. He extrapolates from existing trends -- the rising costs of fossil fuels, food, and transport, the proliferation of droughts, floods, and wildfires, etc. – to sketch a vision of a post-capitalist, climate-disrupted world that is already arriving.

From Capital To Commons: A Review

September 30, 2025 Bernard Marszalek, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Capitalism, Decentralization, Energy, The Commons

Environmental news, paradoxically, approaches banality as every day a new horror finds resonance in the media we consume and which consumes us. These daily reports enervate us and lead to resignation. Is our passivity the intention? If we refuse to be immobilized, how do we find a route out of our misery? We don’t suffer from a lack of proffered paths for our “engagement.” A multiplicity of them pursue our attention, many illusory, and often provided as a service for a “slight fee.” In frustration, and as a kind of therapy, the most committed rush to clean a beach, while mostly we sign online petitions, or make donations to allay the futility we feel. The complexity of our ecological predicament, when we are methodically informed, clarifies matters.

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