Page 8 - Robert Brenner News Today

Robert Brenner's influential essay on the origins of capitalism, arguing that the balance of class forces in the countryside was crucial to the rise and dominance of capitalist wage labour relations.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, K2 Integrity announced Jason Wright has joined the firms London office as a Managing Director in its Investigations and Risk Advisory...

TWO countries have made the front pages and lead stories in our lemming-like capitalist media: Haiti and Cuba. One country — Haiti — has earned the ire of the self-styled Western democracies by overthrowing its colonial slavemasters and establishing a free state in 1803, the first country in history to liberate itself from European-imposed slavery. The Europeans and elites in the US never forgave the rebellious followers of Toussaint L’Ouverture and their descendants. Through occupation...

DGAP-News: Comcast Washington 23.07.2021 / 00:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Comcast today announced Dave Mandapat as the new Director of Marketing for Comcast Business in Washington. In this role, he will be responsible for the overall marketing and sales efforts for Comcast Business across the state. "The business community in our state is seeking ways to innovate and improve as it reopens, and connectivity and technology are resources they need now ...

People waiting in line at a job fair in New York, USA – April 26, 2013. Photo: rblfmr / Shutterstock.com The fourth industrial revolution (or Industry 4.0) is upon us. From artificial intelligence to cultured meats to 3D printing, new innovations appear to be on the verge of ushering in a world of both stunning material abundance and human leisure. Such is the forecast of the World Economic Forum, which welcomes this impending technological transformation as an “opportunity … to create an...

Decline of the USA, Rise of the Struggles? The USA, as the world’s leading capitalist nation, is economically, politically and morally bankrupt. Resistance is picking up steam at home: in 2018 and 2019 there were more strikes, and more large ones, than at any time in more than two decades. In 2020, there were only seven strikes with 1,000 or more participants, but the country witnessed the largest wave of protests in its history. [1] Rising unemployment and poor health care during the pandemi...

Email Address Lest we forget. The fear, the weeks of waiting, the vivid force of the eyewitness testimony; the replaying of grisly footage and then the shock of the conviction: the whole drama of the Derek Chauvin trial—its obscenity and thin catharsis—would not have taken place at all were it not for last year’s riots. Police trials are rare. So is national uprising: looting, acts of vandalism, and the nightly carnival of torched police cars are what vaulted George Floyd’s death from ...

Post Growth by Tim Jackson review – life after capitalism The ecological economist adds to his message that relentless economic expansion is killing the planet with a set of more philosophical reflections. But does ‘post growth’ offer as many answers as the Green New Deal? ‘ Steam gives way to sail is the oldest rule in the book.’ Jackson recalls a yacht trip on the River Thurne in Norfolk. Photograph: David Grimwade/Alamy ‘ Steam gives way to sail is the oldest ...

China Daily, May 10, 2021. Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and president of the World Association for Political Economy. He can be reached at 65344718[at]vip.163.com. Lu Baolin is a professor at the School of Economics, Qufu Normal University. Neoimperialism is the specific contemporary phase of historical development tha...

Through storytelling, podcast series offers an inside look at real-world investigations and the tactics that investigators used to solve them NEW YORK, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- K2 Integrity today announced the launch of a new investigative podcast series, Digging Deeper, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at the investigations industry. Guests will explore real-world cases and share what they uncovered along the way to crack the code for clients. In a recent episode, Jules Kroll, found...