During one of the many Indian famines (Southern India, 1876-78), the British viceroy Lord Lytton declared, “there is to be no interference of any kind on the part of government with the object of reducing the price of food.” Johann Hari tells the story of one British official, Sir Richard Temple, who, when he imported some food to give to the starving during another famine, was denounced by the Economist magazine for giving Indians the notion that “it is the duty of the Government to keep them alive.”
www.socialisteconomist.com/2020/03/when-economists-try-to-solve-health.html
www.socialisteconomist.com/2020/03/when-economists-try-to-solve-health.html
Socialisteconomist
When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous
✑ Justin Podur. Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly.
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Forward this post if your channel stands in solidarity with everyone who is not paying rent on April 1st or is refusing show up to work ✊🏳️
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theintercept.com/2020/03/19/organizer-mariame-kaba-we-need-a-peoples-bailout-to-confront-coronavirus/
theintercept.com/2020/03/19/organizer-mariame-kaba-we-need-a-peoples-bailout-to-confront-coronavirus/
The Intercept
Intercepted Podcast: Mariame Kaba and a People’s Bailout for Coronavirus
Organizer Mariame Kaba discusses the realities facing some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
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AP NEWS
UN General Assembly to decide on rival COVID-19 resolutions
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — How should the U.N. General Assembly and its 193 member states respond to the coronavirus pandemic? Members have been sent two rival resolutions for consideration — and under new voting rules instituted because the global body isn’t…
From "Globalisation: A systematic Marxian account" by Tony Smith, which you can also find on @pantopialibrary
According to Zevin this is the algorithm of the Economist’s liberalism: a running commentary on world affairs that consistently invokes “sound economics” and the high-minded liberal values of individual rights and freedoms but in fact amounts to an apologia for the interests of finance, the propertied elite and their global power.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-the-economist-doesnt-tell-you-liberal-democracy-populism-review
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-the-economist-doesnt-tell-you-liberal-democracy-populism-review
Prospect Magazine
What the Economist doesn’t tell you - Prospect Magazine
The publication has a sublime—even smug—self-confidence in its elite liberal worldview. So how is it coping with our populist moment?
The lockdown has shown the truth of the words of one of IWW’s founders Bill Haywood: “If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognise their own solidarity, They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists”.
libcom.org/news/capitalism-virus-class-solidarity-cure-28032020
libcom.org/news/capitalism-virus-class-solidarity-cure-28032020
libcom.org
Capitalism is the Virus - Class Solidarity is the Cure!
Statement from IWW Ireland on a class response to Covid-19