‘We Are Not Robots’: Amazon Workers Walk out on Black Friday over Low Wages and ‘Inhuman Conditions’
The Amazon strikes in Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Read more...The Amazon strikes in Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Read more...Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange recognized.
Read more...The IMF is back again, flexing its muscle in Argentina and Mexico, pushing the neoliberal Washington Consensus, says Vijay Prashad in this Real News Network interview.
Read more...Contrary to the dominant media narrative, social issues like racism and sexism on their own can’t explain Trump’s success.
Read more...Brexit news still looks decidedly uncheery.
Read more...China has more of a glass jaw than most economics commentators thought. But how is Trump’s trade war likely to progress?
Read more...The US and China are even more visibly at odds than usual.
Read more...Although recycling is far from a viable solution to the world’s plastic problem, even these inadequate efforts are lacking, as press accounts from last week of corruption in the UK recycling industry, and Japan’s lag in implementing even the limited plastic reduction measures undertaken elsewhere reveal.
Read more...It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.
Read more...The lay of the Brexit land is becoming clearer after the inconclusive October European Council summit.
Read more...Why the new, improved NAFTA is only a little less bad than the old one.
Read more...European leaders have regularly expressed a desire for a European currency to serve as a reserve currency. The history of the transition from sterling to dollar and Europe’s aspirations sheds light on whether the Euro can assume this role.
Read more...Don’t kid yourself that the current relative calm on the Brexit front is a good thing.
Read more...Bad Brexit news just got worse.
Read more...Why Trump’s trade deals could wind up being a negative for employment.
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