Reserve Army - Pandemic Edition

✑ DAVID F. RUCCIO` ╱ ± 4 minutes
The existence of a reserve army serves to discipline labor.

In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the Needs of the People

✑ TRICONTINENTAL INSTITUTE` ╱ ± 18 minutes
The evisceration of public institutions has left society vulnerable.

The Austerity Virus

✑ TRICONTINENTAL INSTITUTE` ╱ ± 12 minutes
The virus is the product of nature, while the crisis is the product of neoliberalism.

The Scarring

✑ MICHAEL ROBERTS` ╱ ± 11 minutes
There is not always a V-shaped recovery to previous trends.

Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic

✑ PRABIR PURKAYASTHA` ╱ ± 9 minutes
Riding the pale horse of apocalypse are companies that hold patent.

Risk In Capitalism

✑ CHRIS DILLOW` ╱ ± 5 minutes
The idea that the boss of a large firm is a swashbuckling risk-taker is a fiction.

Finance versus the People in the Era of the Pandemic

✑ PRABHAT PATNAIK` ╱ ± 7 minutes
A large fiscal deficit is not to the liking of globally mobile finance capital.

The World After Corona

✑ BRANKO MILANOVIC` ╱ ± 7 minutes
We are likely to see to some extent a replay of the Global Financial Crisis.

Capitalism Has Failed in Fighting Coronavirus

✑ RICHARD D. WOLFF` ╱ ± 5 minutes
We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again.

The Virus Didn’t Ruin Us – Our Economics Did

✑ NILS BRANDSMA` ╱ ± 5 minutes
It remained just as fragile, if not more, as before 2008.

A Left Ruled State In India Is Leading The Battle Against Coronavirus

✑ YADUL KRISHNA` ╱ ± 9 minutes
Kerala knew it had a mountain to climb.

Washington Uses the Pandemic to Create a $2 Trillion Slush Fund for Its Cronies

✑ MARSHALL AUERBACK` ╱ ± 10 minutes
Under the guise of a public health emergency...

When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous

✑ JUSTIN PODUR` ╱ ± 7 minutes In the name of the same doctrines, the British also starved the Irish.

Coronavirus Shows Us Why Corporate Health Insurance Is a Problem

✑ DIANE ARCHER` ╱ ± 6 minutes
All constraints on access to care remain in place.

Beyond the Economic Chaos of Coronavirus Is a Global War Economy

✑ WILLIAM I. ROBINSON` ╱ ± 14 minutes
The virus was only the spark that ignited the financial implosion.

The Cost of This Pandemic Must Not Bankrupt the People

✑ VIJAY PRASHAD & MANUEL BERTOLDI` ╱ ± 6 minutes
A 16-point plan.

An Often Overlooked Region of India Is a Beacon to the World for Taking on the Coronavirus

✑ VIJAY PRASHAD & SUBIN DENNIS` ╱ ± 8 minutes
“Physical distance, social unity—that should be our slogan at this time,” said Pinarayi Vijayan.

COVID-19 and the Working Class

✑ JACK RASMUS` ╱ ± 4 minutes
Average working class folks cannot afford to voluntary quarantine themselves.