Economics

Trump plays friend to workers on trade while pursuing privatization

March 13, 2017 By Tony Burke

U.S. unions face a dilemma: how to work with a president who’s avowedly anti-union and yet is pursuing some of their aims, like re-negotiating NAFTA?

Chinese Communist leader defends globalization while U.S. talks isolationism

February 22, 2017 By Jenny Clegg

In a bizarre twist, it falls to China's Communist leader Xi Jinping to defend globalization as Trump talks of closing borders and halting trade.

Neoliberal agenda thriving despite Trump’s nationalist trade rhetoric

February 21, 2017 By Joe Sims

President Trump talks a good nationalist game when it comes to TPP and free trade, but the rest of his agenda so far shows Wall Street neoliberal ideology is setting the pace.

Is there any hope?

February 21, 2017 By Scott Hiley

Without it, there could be no struggle.

Standing Marx on his head: Critique of the Libretti Program

January 6, 2017 By Laurent Ross

The problem in U.S. society is not so much that highly skilled workers earn too much money. The problem is that unskilled workers earn far too little.