Zohran Mamdani hardest hit? The Democrat nominee for mayor in New York told CNN yesterday that he doesn’t like capitalism because of its ‘distribution of wealth.’ Mamdani wants politicians to become “actors” and to use government power in wealth redistribution more directly: CNN: “Do you like capitalism?” MAMDANI: “No. I have many critiques of capitalism.”...
Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In practice, however, the majority of today’s self-described mutual aid projects remain more or less unidirectional efforts to provide goods and services to those in need. This...
On Saturday, 16th October 2010, some 500 activists gathered at convergence points across London, knowing only that they were about to embark on a direct action called Crude Awakening, aimed against the ecological devastation of the global oil industry, but with no clear idea of what they were about to do. The plan was quite...
‘Capitalism’s all-round general crisis is back with a vengeance in Britain and many other developed countries’, Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths told our Party’s Political Committee on Wednesday evening (8 January 2025). ‘On every front from the US and Canada to Britain, France and Germany, ruling classes and governments are in turmoil. As...