Jomo Kwame Sundaram , United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development writes :- “Lack of food is rarely the reason that people go hungry. The world today produces enough food to feed everyone. The problem is that more and more people simply cannot afford to buy the food they need. Even before the recent...
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Food Prices – speculation and hoarding
Crisis? What crisis?
There is no crisis. That deserves to be said twice. There is no crisis. What happened in Japan was a crisis. Haiti was a crisis. What we have is a failure of mathematics – the mathematics of greed. We as a society have never been so productive, and we have never had such wealth...
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Are Workers Brainwashed by Capitalism?
If you want to know the truth, you cannot rely on newspapers. We have that on good authority – in fact, on the authority of the more honest newspapers. (The more honest papers are those that are read mainly by capitalists who need reliable information about the world in order to make investment decisions,...
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Capitalism – the Sick Society
Mental illness in America has become an established epidemic. So-called miracle drugs like Prozac are taken by 11% of the population – and Prozac is only one of the 30 available antidepressants on the market. Antidepressants are accompanied by anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic drugs. Xanax, America’s leading anti-anxiety medication, is so ubiquitous that Xanax generates...
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Was the crisis just a mistake?
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission set up by the US government reported at the end of January. They concluded that the crisis of 2007 and 2008 was the result of “human action and inaction, not of Mother Nature or computer models gone haywire”, but “of human mistakes, misjudgments, and misdeeds” and so avoidable. Obviously,...
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Zambia: the riots in Barotseland
The events that took place in Western Province on 14 January strongly and correctly underpin that Zambia’s politics are tribalist – that tribalism in Zambia exists and is partly instigated by self-seeking politicians through inciting disgruntled ethnic groups in order to advance their political objectives. What is called nationalism comes to emphasise political allegiance...
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Role Modeling Socialism
For most of the twentieth century, Isaac Rab (1893 – 1986) was well known in the Boston area as a socialist soap-box orator, lecturer, and teacher. He was a founding member of the World Socialist Party of the United States and a central figure in its Boston Local for many years. In this book,...
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Castro’s Brand of Capitalism
On this day in 1959 Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba. He officially stepped down two years ago. The lie that Cuba is or was communist remains however and it is primarily with this in mind that SOYMB offers the following article, which first appeared in the Socialist Standard of...
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Child Labor in the USA – again?
Jane Cunningham a Missouri State Senator has proposed a law the wholesale repeal of child-labor laws in that state. The law would allow employment of children under 14. She believes this will instill a “work ethic” in the young. She says that her bill simply loosens an overly broad prohibition on child labor and...
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