Hillary Clinton’s complaints about the spread of “fake news” belie her contributions to it The 2008 Clinton campaign played an instrumental role in spreading rumors that…
Authoritarian Neoliberalism: the Specter of Pinochet This essay explores the rise of populist demagogues and the economics of their regimes. Rather than marking a clear break with neoliberalism or a…
Contrasting populisms: Lambie’s labourism and Hanson’s opportunism The Australian Left are keen to conflate the anti-politics offered by Jacqui Lambie and Pauline…
Trump and trade war - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu A brief text discussing the likely impact of Trump's economic policies (in so far as he has coherent…
So this is how it ends: Obama spends his last months in office shilling for the TPP The “hope and change” candidate will go out with a whimper. After nearly eight years of consistent…
Standing at night, or taking it lying down? - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu A byproduct of the recent protests against the new "Labour Law" in France was an…
Libertarian critique and the left wing of capitalism - Miguel Amorós In these (January 2016) draft notes for a lecture on the “partiocracy” and its crisis—pertaining for…
Syrian refugees get Obama’s sympathy, what about the refugees of the war on drugs and NAFTA? Obama claims to care about Syrian refugees, but the refugees from the US led "war…
Labour party debate What is Socialism? Transcript of the opening remarks of a debate between Steve Coleman (for the Socialist Party of Great Britain) and Councillor Laurence Spigel …
The golden mediocrity - Miguel Amorós Considerations on the political situation in Spain in 2015, with a brief historical survey of the origins of the civil society movement in the…
5 reasons to steer clear of the Labour Party bandwagon After a campaign that seemed to drag on endlessly in the wake of the general election, Jeremy Corbyn…
On America, part 4: I hate my job When it comes to problems on the job, we're generally given few options: quit, vote, join a union. Here's why that's not good enough. The final…
