Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“It operates like a food chain: the French at the top, followed by North Africans who run  the subcontracting companies, and at the bottom, the exploited workers .”

When the US converts the world into a battlefield, how do Americans know where to draw the line? More precisely put, it is not immensely shocking that a country that inculcates its citizenry with a macho, shoot-’em-up attitude vis-à-vis other human populations might end up with some, well, “murderers” on its hands – particularly when the domestic panorama is one of dystopian capitalism and acute alienation. Capitalism is the culprit

“The statistics show very clearly that the cost of living crisis is not being driven by workers demanding higher wages. The combination of the war in Ukraine and disturbances to supply chains that took place during the Great Lockdown are the main factors explaining higher prices. As I argued in  Tribune  last week, the crisis in  global shipping  is particularly important in explaining why prices have risen so much over the last few years. But the issue isn’t simply macroeconomic changes that are beyond our control — it’s also the profiteering of large corporations in response to the inflationary environment.” Rising prices are not driven by rising wages

–Ishmahil Blagrove, Facebook, 22 April 2022

On the pandemic and the vaccine

A comparison between the left’s programme and Biden’s

 An example of class struggle and how the state sides with capital. At War , a film by Stéphane Brizé Related Class struggle with dark realism

  Finland had a free-patent Covid-19 vaccine—but still went with big pharma Related Get rid of patents on Covid-19 vaccine

 A subscription is required to read the whole article. Mass incarceration and profit-making

  They are not mistakes, Deborah ; they are part of the functioning of the nation state. The HIV disaster was tied to the the drug companies, the market and profit. Related Calling the shots

Yves Hayat. — «   Brexit   », de la série «   Parfum de révolte   », 2016. Courtesy Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris The COVID pandemic slump and the underlying weakness of British capital are much more damaging to the UK's economic future than Brexit. Brexit is just an extra burden for British capital to face; as it also will be for British households. The Brexit deal

 Students plan the largest rent strike in 40 years

 The pandemic and the future of work

A short video about COVID19 crisis, its origins and its remedy (more details in the synopsis below). Video is produced by the North African Food Sovereignty Network and has English subtitles (settings: caption ON). Synopsis Capitalist production penetrates brutally to the depths of the earth and disturbs the balance that allows society to live in harmony with its environment. This is the concern of the North African Network for Food Sovereignty as it works towards alternatives to agribusinesses which have aggravated food dependency but have also caused major disruptions in our ecosystems, ultimately leading to epidemics such as Covid-19.

What sort of a PhD candidate in sociological studies who does mention capitalism and profit, but not the word 'class' even once? Could it be that an editor remove the word from the article? I don't know. Protests – and riots – are rebellion against an unjust system

You can't control what you don't own. Big pharma rejected EU plan to fast-track-vaccines in 2017

A good piece. We can't go back to normal

iPhone workers today are 25 times more exploited than textile workers of 19th century England I do not agree with the authors, who are using a Marxist analysis, on calling Eeastern European countries before 1990 'socialist'. Their labbelling throws dust in readers' eyes.  If those countries were socialist, what do today's socialists are fighting for then? And if those countries were socialist, it is more of an argument for the defenders of capitalism: "if that was socialism, we don't want it." The Rate of Exploitation (The Case of the iPhone) Related: "Sucking up"  (Apple's app and Hong Kong protests)

I would say Political Economy + [International] Sociology. Economic Crisis and the Crisis of Economics

Only a rational economy can stop the devastation of nature An economy that abolishes the private ownership of the means of producing wealth and finance, and combines democratic production, distribution and consumption.