Politics

Apple are using their monopoly to rob workers by designing their phones and laptops to break. It’s wasteful, anti-environment and anti-worker; it’s capitalism! Proletarian writers Technology repair engineers, hobbyists and farmers have joined together in an unlikely alliance to fight for the right to repair their own machines. Original equipment manufacturers, including laptop and smartphone manufacturer Apple and agricultural machinery producer John Deere, have been making it more and more challenging for their products to be repaired by third parties. These companies are moving to monopolise the repair market for their products. Under the pretence of protecting consumers from unlicensed repairs, they have been using law enforcement, asset seizure and obfuscation to preve...

Our rulers are keen to convince us that the deepest depression in the history of capitalism is a random and unpredictable ‘black swan’ event. Ranjeet Brar The onset of lockdown in Italy turned out to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. A crisis that has been brewing for several years, and which has at its root the saturation of global markets that has been worsening since the late 1970s, has finally broken out in full force – and it looks set to be the worst that global capitalism has ever experienced. As this article was being written, in the last week of April 2020, there was already enough information – and disinformation – about the coronavirus pandemic (novel coronavirus disease 2019, SARS-Cov-2 or Covid-19) to fill an encyclopaedia. It is an all-encompassing topi...

In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution. Ella Rule As is abundantly obvious, the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking untold damage on the world economy, and on the national economies of every country on the planet. What the coronavirus has done is to act as the catalyst for the re-emergence with even greater force of the 2008 capitalist crisis of overproduction. The world was already teetering on the brink of economic collapse, and the coronavirus has given it the kick that has sent it spiralling into the abyss. As Eric Toussaint pointed out in a recent article aptly entitled No, the coronavirus is not responsible for the fall of stock prices: “Over the past two yea...

By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel Anxiety is a widespread phenomenon that often accompanies people from the earliest days of childhood until old age. It is part of life and has many causes. When unscrupulous despots – whether medieval popes, modern dictators or so-called philanthropists – stir up this everyday fear from outside, they are concerned with satisfying their own greed for power and subjugating the peoples. In doing so they are “doing the work of the devil”. Most people react to this diabolical “game” of the rulers with a reflex of obedience or even with unconditional submission. At present, totalitarian governments fuel people’s fear of a virus and aggravate the problem by denying freedom to their citizens and isolating them from their fellow citizens. Neurological anxiety disorde...

By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay “I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression, and I can remember one bleak night in the Thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he’d lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you – and that’s a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again. Today’s young people must never be held hostage to the mistakes of the past.”  —Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), American actor and politician, former Governor of California and 40th U.S. President, 1981-1989, (in an address to the Nation, on Oct. 13, 1982.) “In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent...