Capitalism

The War On The Poor Is Escalating

July 12, 2026 John Clarke, Canadian Dimension. Strategize! Austerity, Capitalism, Homeless, Housing, Poverty

We are now living in a period when poverty, homelessness, and social abandonment have reached crisis levels and the need for a united working-class challenge to this state of affairs is more important than ever. The official discourse in our society is geared to the proposition that poverty and homelessness stem from personal failings, if not moral dereliction. This assumption is shared by both right-wing and more liberal commentators, even if it is expressed by them in significantly different terms. The right-wingers simply condemn the poor as the architects of their own misfortune and seek to impose the full burden of austerity measures on them, backed up, of course, by generous doses of aggressive policing and prison sentences.

What’s Been Lost In Medicine Is Shameful In Psychiatry

July 12, 2026 Bruce E. Levine, Counter Punch. Create! Capitalism, Health Care, mental health, Psychiatry

That is striking about The Lost Art of Healing (1996) is that its author Bernard Lown (1921-2021), the renowned cardiologist who pioneered life-saving technological advances, makes clear that vital to heart health and recovery are human relationships that are being increasingly ignored in technology-worshipping medicine. For Lown, two relationship areas that are critical in heart health and recovery are: (1) the relationship between the physician and the patient; and (2) the relationships between patients with their partners, family members, and other significant people in their lives.

Europe Is Burning: Deadly Heatwave Exposes Criminality Of Fossil Capitalism

July 3, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. Educate! Capitalism, European Union (EU), Fossil Fuels, Global heating

Europe is on fire. Record-shattering heat waves have gripped the continent, pushing temperatures above 40°C (104°F) in multiple countries, buckling infrastructure, overwhelming hospitals, and claiming thousands of lives. This is not a natural disaster. It is the foreseeable, profitable outcome of decades of fossil fuel addiction and capitalist extraction. According to a sobering analysis by The Economist, the late-June heat spike could cause around 12,000 excess deaths across Europe. The study, covering 854 cities, shows that human-caused climate change has made the event far more lethal than it would have been otherwise.

A Visual History Of English Land Commoners And Their Folk Culture

July 2, 2026 David Bollier. Create! Capitalism, Commoners, The Commons, United Kingdom (UK)

Our modern mental maps of commons are woefully inadequate, in part because we have forgotten the history of commons and its once-flourishing folk culture. Leah Gordon, an English photographer, writer, and filmmaker has set out to fix that through a deep dive into the history of English commons. The result, produced with two collaborators, is her fascinating and beautiful book, Common People: A Folk History of Land Rights, Enclosure and Resistance. Her two partners in the project are Stephen Ellcock, a renowned visual curator, and writer Anabelle Edwards, who has studied alternative lifestyles that reject the modern market/state and its culture.

‘Catabolic Capitalism’: How Capitalism Profits From Collapse

June 29, 2026 Craig Collins, Resilience. Strategize! Capitalism, climate crisis, Finite Planet, Growth

For most of the modern era, capitalism justified itself through growth. Industrial societies converted vast amounts of fossil energy into production, wealth, and rising living standards. Roads, bridges, power grids, schools, and public institutions expanded alongside the economy. Inequality and exploitation remained deeply embedded in the system, but they were partly obscured by a broader story of material progress. That story is beginning to unravel. Across much of the developed world, economic life increasingly feels less like construction than demolition. Infrastructure deteriorates. Public institutions struggle to perform basic functions.

For A Pride Against Capitalism, Imperialism, And The Far Right

June 28, 2026 Jorge Remacha and Chris Amelio Castaneda, Left Voice. Strategize! Capitalism, Far Right, Imperialism, LGBTQ Rights, Pride Month

Pride has its roots in the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City, when the LGBTQ+ community, Black and Latino youth, and trans and gender-nonconforming people fought back against police brutality, state harassment, and the criminalization of their lives. This year, we must honor this spirit, recognizing that the fight for sexual and gender liberation is part of the international struggle to overthrow the exploitative and oppressive capitalist system. In recent decades, the crisis of neoliberalism has led governments across the world to attack the living conditions of the working majority, all while ramping up its imperialist wars and plunder.

Cloud, Platforms, And Search Engines Are Public-Interest Institutions

June 28, 2026 Cecilia Rikap, Kirsten Van Gestel, and Klara Ledroit, Transform Network. Create! Capitalism, European Union (EU), Public ownership, Technology

Today, US tech giants increasingly capture and profit from knowledge, research, and technologies produced in European universities and public institutions. The result is a deepening digital dependency: the European Union relies on foreign-owned platforms that control not only our data, but also the way we communicate, work, think and, ultimately, live our lives. For economist Cecilia Rikap, Associate Professor in Economics and Head of Research at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London (IIPP-UCL), this dependency is not merely economic: it is also a democratic issue.

Real Existing Degrowth

June 25, 2026 Grace Wright-Arora, Red Pepper. Create! Capitalism, Degrowth, New Economy, Real Existing Degrowth (RED)

Real Existing Degrowth (RED) is an emerging scholarly idea. In many ways, it’s the 2020’s climate politics version of previous efforts to locate radical alternative economies in daily life, such as actually existing socialism and everyday communism. Rather than asking whether degrowth is possible in the future, RED asks to what extent elements of it already exist today. Its proponents stress that REDs are messy and incomplete – but that does not negate their existence as alternatives to capitalism. This article gives some concrete examples of where they manifest, from a self-sufficient community in rural Somerset, to a volunteer women-run community kitchen in Veracruz, Mexico, to convivial folk dances on a ‘left behind’ Greek island.

Why It’s Time To De-Commodify Food

June 22, 2026 Gunnar Rundgren, Resilience. Strategize! Capitalism, Decommodify, Food, New Economy

The myth that the consumer is in command is an essential part of capitalist ideology. It portrays the market as a democratic institution which people can control by “voting with their wallets”. And, if markets are democratic, the best is to let markets take care of as much as possible – so the story goes. Regardless of the fact that some people have many more dollars in their wallet than others, it gives a totally distorted view of how markets work. Steve Jobs said “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them” and proved it with the iPhone.

How Capitalism Kills The Game For Poor And Working Class People

June 18, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Capitalism, Imperialism, Sportwashing, Working Class, world cup

Capitalism has a way of rendering what was once accessible to, and tactile for the masses into distant memories that themselves become the only thing that can be possessed, which is not a bad thing until said memories become the only thing that can be possessed due to profound wealth and income iniquity. For myself, I remember a time when my single, working class mother and I could impulsively decide to go to a Yankees game or a Knicks game the same day they were being played. Moms would head to the Chemical Bank ATM, take out $40, and have the ability to purchase two decent seats along with refreshments for both of us to enjoy.

Pure Socialism Is Pure Idealism: A Reply To Jacobin On China

June 15, 2026 Carlos Martinez, Friends of Socialist China. Educate! Capitalism, China, Poverty Eradication, Socialism

In the following article, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez responds to a recent Jacobin book review which presents China’s economic rise as a simple story of “brutal exploitation” indistinguishable from the horrors of Britain’s industrial revolution. While not doubting the hardships described in the book under review, Carlos argues that Jacobin’s framing is ahistorical and idealist. China’s growth has not merely enriched a class of capitalists but transformed the lives of the majority, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty and improving working class wages and conditions at an extraordinary pace.

Data Sovereignty, Asset Manager Capitalism, And Privatization Of Economic Governance

June 12, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Educate! Big Data, Capitalism, Data Sovereignty, Privatization

The struggle for data sovereignty is often presented as a debate over privacy, cybersecurity, or technological regulation. The stakes are far greater. Data sovereignty concerns ownership of the social commons itself. Every search query, financial transaction, medical appointment, classroom interaction, social media post, photograph, message, and geolocation record contributes to an immense reservoir of information created through ordinary human activity. This information is generated collectively. It emerges from relationships, communities, institutions, labor, culture, and daily life.

Like Midas, Our Rulers Want To Monetise Everything They Touch

June 10, 2026 Jonathan Cook, Scheer Post. Educate! Billionaires, Capitalism, Profiteers, Wars and Militarism

I am old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the wave of excitement it unleashed. With the Soviet Union consigned to the history books, the world was going to become a better, safer place. Liberals crowed that the West’s superior, democratic values had won out. Intellectuals like Francis Fukuyama wrote about the “end of history”: the triumph of free-market capitalism and a resolution of ideological struggle. Nearly half a century on, the celebratory mood of that time looks not just misplaced but positively deluded.

Pride 2026: Genocide Of Trans People Threatens All Workers

June 7, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. Strategize! Capitalism, Pride Month, State Oppression, Transgender Rights

Four years ago, SLL’s 2022 Pride Month statement called on the workers and oppressed to “Resist the capitalist ‘trans panic’ strategy.” We wrote then: “The only way fascist movements have ever been defeated is by people uniting and fighting back. “It is not enough to rely on elections or hope that friendly politicians will save us. They won’t. The Democratic Party is tied by a million threads to the same capitalist class that demands these anti-people measures.” The campaign of demonization has only intensified since then. For the past 18 months, Donald Trump’s regime has been steadily putting in place all of the infrastructure, legal and otherwise, to make it impossible for trans people to exist in public, and to justify the dehumanization and extermination of trans lives on a mass scale.

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