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
In October 2019, a US cybersecurity firm discovered that government officials had created a sophisticated app to install software on the cell phones of activists, allowing the state to track their movements and monitor their calls and emails. The app’s default coordinates matched those of the secret police headquarters in Cairo.
jacobinmag.com/2020/03/egypt-prison-state-client-mubarak-al-sisi/
jacobinmag.com/2020/03/egypt-prison-state-client-mubarak-al-sisi/
Jacobinmag
How the US Helped Build Egypt’s Prison State
The fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 threatened Washington’s relationship with one of its most valuable client states. But since then, US military aid has been used to build up a new machinery of repression that’s strangling the hopes of the revolution.
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"The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics", by Sadie Plant