No Pravin, it was not progressive nor redistributive
Submitted by Malatesta Black on Feb 23 2017 13:58
This article looks at the South African state's budget for 2017. Far from being redistributive and progressive, as the South African Minister of Finance claimed, it was rather a regressive and outright neoliberal budget.
The Iceland women’s strike, 1975
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 24 2016 14:17
A short history of the strike, or day off, by 90% of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975, written by Steven Johns.
Revenge of a Citibank worker
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 1 2016 14:45
An IT worker with Citibank was jailed last week for deliberately downing 90% of the bank's network, following an unfavourable review with a manager.
The failures of atmospheric commodification
Are carbon markets just another wave of capitalist accumulation, or is there an inkling of hope that in commodifying the atmospheric commons we will stave off catastrophic climate change?
Genesis and we
Supply and demand. What comes first? The issue story is primary, not a primitive response like: "If the society needs, we produce» or «We consume because we have that opportunity»
An angry person's guide to finance - Jack Copley
A layperson's guide to the complex and frustrating financial world - from a Marxist perspective.
Class composition and US direct investments abroad - Ferruccio Gambino
Article originally written for Zerowork 3 in December 1974 about class composition and American investments abroad.
Worker sabotage in a financial services call centre
An inspiring first person account of employee sabotage in a pensions call centre, where workers helped customers recoup forgotten pension benefits at the cost of the company in response to bullying management.
Spanish banks occupied
Submitted by working class s... on Jul 11 2013 13:53
Hundreds of activists from the Platform for Mortgage Victims (PAH) have occupied a branch of the Banco Popular Bank, and the BBVA bank, both in Barcelona.
Autonomisation, financialisation, neoliberalism
Submitted by Alasdair on Jan 7 2013 21:34
An overview of the way in which with increasing autonomisation of finance capital, models come to shape the real economy and influence its restructuring.
