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In February 2021, the US was hit by a massive winter storm. Texas, unused to extreme cold weather and which had undergone decades of deregulation, was overwhelmed and its electricity grid collapsed. Millions were left without power in dangerously cold temperatures, dozens of people died and consumers were left with exorbitant bills.

In February 2021, the US was hit by a massive winter storm. Texas, unused to extreme cold weather and which had undergone decades of deregulation, was overwhelmed and its electricity grid collapsed. Millions were left without power in dangerously cold temperatures, dozens of people died and con...

A recent radio programme demonstrated how people can recognise and learn from the past, yet remain blind to the much more pressing present. Under discussion was the new name for the Port Elizabeth Airport and its significance for South Africa in 2021. An historian from the University of Cape Town explained who the renamed Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport was named after: he was a Khoi leader who joined forces with the Xhosa people in opposing colonial expansion on the 18 th-century ea...

Resistance Books, the Alternative Information and Development Centre, and the International Institute for Research and Education. For a free copy, click the cover image. Click to download free pdf or ebook. by Jonathan Neale I have spent the last year working on a book called Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs. Most of it is about both the politics and the engineering of any possible transition that can avert catastrophic climate breakdown. One thing I had to think about ...

A six-year-old family member developed the “why did the chicken cross the road” into his own riddle: “How does a cow do maths? By using a cowculator.” Inspired by him, how would we answer this particular riddle: what connection is there between Jacob Zuma’s recent announcement of his defiance of the Constitutional Court, the ANC secretary-general’s defence of the former president of South Africa, Julius Malema having tea with Zuma, the Progressive Business Forum requiring the vaccin...

Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Anyone who denies this statement is just willfully blind. But, it turns out, when you are focused on your ideology and not on real life, it’s pretty easy to end up being willfully blind. I’m really not casting aspersions on the ethics or motivations of people who believe in socialist solutions — I believe in some of those myself — but it’s crucial to face reality head-on. So, let me just justify statistically my statement about the SA’s tax rate...

Top 0.5% are getting rich from Covid-19 crisis. Tax them! - economist 4 February 2021 3:21 PM Share This: "You can’t have a small minority living as if they are tourists here,” says economist Dick Forslund. RELATED: Calls for a special tax on the superrich are incessant and growing louder, not only in South Africa but around the world. In the United States this week, Senator Elizabeth Warren joined a US Senate committee on tax, giving her much power to influence decisions in this reg...

January 7, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Verso — The sudden death our friend and comrade Leo Panitch has led to an extraordinary outpouring of sadness and appreciation across the world. Very few intellectuals on the left have had the intellectual impact on progressive thinkers and activists that Leo has had, as the flood of testimonials shows; and fewer still have in addition personally trained a comparable network of scholars of the highest ...

In Appreciation of Leo Panitch The sudden death our friend and comrade Leo Panitch has led to an extraordinary outpouring of sadness and appreciation across the world. Very few intellectuals on the left have had the intellectual impact on progressive thinkers and activists that Leo has had, as the flood of testimonials shows; and fewer still have in addition personally trained a comparable network of scholars of the highest calibre who are now carrying forward his distinctive project of critic...

The democrats are not substance the engaged in problem solving on the issue at the border. but still the media continues to carry the water for them. but when reporters begin acting like pundits, kellyanne conway showed us yesterday exactly how they should be treated. >> can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight? will he tell the truth? >> yes, can you promise that you will? the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god. make sure that goes viral. this is why im...