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Documents reveal municipal police establishing surveillance centres as “force multiplier” for law enforcement
This will be the last BBC licence fee negotiation ever. Work will start next week on a mid-term review to replace the charter with a new funding formula.
“It’s over for the BBC as they know it.”
The source added that “the days of state-run TV are over” and praised the growth of US-run private sector companies such as Netflix and YouTube.
The Home Office has hired a high-end ad agency to mobilize public opinion against encrypted communications — with plans that include some shockingly manipulative tactics
US corporate media outlets demand that Washington escalate the risk of a broader war while downplaying important aspects of the conflict.
After 18 months of protests, occupations and blockades, Elbit Systems has shut its weapons factory in Oldham for good. A Palestine Action activist explains what it took to reach this point – and what comes next.
Although the median number of caregiving hours was similar between men (1.1 hours per week) and women (1.3 hours per week), women made up a larger share of caregivers spending 20 or more hours per week on caregiving tasks (64% women vs. 36% men). Meanwhile, slightly more men than women spent one to three hours per week providing care (51% vs. 49%).
there is good evidence that capitalists switched more of their profits out of productive investment to make more profits from financial speculation in the neoliberal period. This explains the decline in productive investment growth and the expansion of finance. Unfortunately, using the Kalecki model, Bakir-Campbell hide the Marxist cause for this switch; namely a falling rate of profit in productive sectors. But as they say, the determinants of profitability was not the purpose of the paper.
This must be a rare page in American diplomatic history that a US Secretary of State has been literally off his rocker. Antony Blinken’s outbursts on the events in Kazakhstan were not only boorish but also illogical.
The secretary general of ALBA-TCP, Sacha Llorenti, asked Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the Instituto Simón Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela to start an international discussion responding to the broad crises of our times. We brought together twenty-six research institutes from around the world whose work has now culminated in a report called A Plan to Save the Planet. The plan covers twelve areas from ‘democracy and the world order’ to ‘the digital world’.
Under the leadership of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research partnered with 26 research institutes from around the world to draft A Plan to Save the Planet. This living, evolving document puts forward a vision for the present and the immediate future centred on twelve key themes: democracy and the world order, the environment, finance, health, housing, food, education, work, care, women, culture, and the digital world. Dossier no. 48 includes and elaborates on the Plan and lays out our orientation, principles, and horizon.
Cuba puts people before profits – showing the world an alternative to monopoly profits. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries
It’s crunch time in Russia-U.S. relations. High-level talks starting Monday will determine the shape of world security for decades to come, observes Tony Kevin.
In large part, imperialism targets Venezuela because of the oil pulsing through its subterranean veins. Yet more important is its example. Chavismo galvanized a popular movement that revitalized socialism and placed it in the mouths of millions across the globe. Against a suffocating embargo and corrupt bureaucracy, the revolution will survive only if the grassroots reinvent it.
Imperialism is not only instantiated in military force and unilateral sanctions deployed to influence the sovereign political and economic affairs of a state for the benefit of an external one. Imperialism is manifest in the everyday organizing principles of the entire global economy, of which states in the Global North (including Canada) have inaugurated themselves as the rulers.
Canada has told the U.S. that it's willing to help with possible deterrence measures against Russia — which could include sanctions — to head off a crisis in Ukraine, CBC News has learned.
A National Labor Relations Board ruling sheds light on a highly secret anti-union campaign at Google, that a top executive explicitly described as an initiative to “convince [employees] that unions suck."
Offering their vaccine with no patent and no strings attached, Drs. Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi say, “This is no time for profiteering.”
Hadas Thier | A left economic agenda must push back against the inflation panic to demand higher wages and increased social spending — while guarding against real inflation threats through targeted price controls and other policies that protect working people’s pockets.
John Clarke | The price of Canadian homes has increased faster than those of any other member of the OECD. Rising interest rates now threaten to bring the market crashing down, destroying the lives of millions in the process.