Corporate

Trump’s MAGA and deregulation

3 March 2025 - by Michael Roberts

Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when he was the boss in the TV show, the Apprentice, he thinks he is running a business and so can employ and fire people at his (…)
Trouble at the tip of the Belt and Road: South Africa’s largest industrial mega-project meets eco-social resistance

14 January 2025 - by Patrick Bond

China’s Belt and Road Initiative has many components, but in Africa, one stands out for its oft-promised mix of industrial development (since 2017) and an ambitious solar energy source (since 2022), together termed the Musina-Makhado Special (…)
Corporate Corruption of South African Politics and Economics

22 July 2024 - by Patrick Bond

‘Accumulation by Dispossession’ as a Structural Process, beyond ‘State Capture’ by Patrick Bond Presented to the conference, Breaking the Chains of Corruption: Whistleblowing as a Catalyst for Social Development in South Africa, University (…)
100 organizations from around the world call on Ecuador to defend its sovereignty against international arbitration: No to ISDS!

12 April 2024 - by Collective

100 organizations from around the world call on Ecuador to defend its sovereignty against international arbitration: No to ISDS! Ecuador must defend its right to say NO to international investment tribunals and to the privileges afforded to (…)
Profits: margins and rates

5 April 2024 - by Michael Roberts

US corporate profit margins are at record highs, despite slowing price inflation and rising wage increases. Looking at the whole US economy, non-financial sector profit margins are at their highest level in the 21st century (over 16%) and not far (…)
Food inflation: The math doesn’t add up without factoring in corporate power

22 March 2024 - by GRAIN

Large farmers’ protests broke out in at least 65 countries over the past year. From India to Kenya through Colombia and France, desperation has hit a breaking point. Farmers warn that without better prices and more protection, their future is at (…)
The US rate of profit in 2021

20 December 2022 - by Michael Roberts

Every year, I analyse the US rate of profit on capital. This is because the US data is the best and most comprehensive to use and because the US is the most important capitalist economy, often setting the scene for trends in global capitalism. (…)
Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick

5 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond, Desmond D’Sa

In 1965, Ho Chi Minh described U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese – and simultaneous threat of endless bombing – as a “rotten carrot and broken stick.” The National Liberation Front’s aim was to achieve (…)
Sign on statement

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO): 19 years is enough

2 December 2022 - by CADTM, Collective, GRAIN, Friends of the Earth

This year’s general assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which begins on 1 December 2022 in Malaysia, marks the alliance’s 19th anniversary. For nearly two decades now, the RSPO has failed in its mission to make the (…)
Moderna’s free ride

29 October 2021 - by Vincent Kiezebrink

A leaked contract between Moderna and the European Commission indicates that the company’s vaccine profits will end up in some of the world’s worst tax havens. The contract signed with Moderna shows that it intends to receive payment for its EU (…)
Moderna’s free ride

7 October 2021 - by Vincent Kiezebrink

A leaked contract between Moderna and the European Commission indicates that the company’s vaccine profits will end up in some of the world’s worst tax havens. The contract signed with Moderna shows that it intends to receive payment for its EU (…)
Global North ‘climate reparations’ to prevent Southern fossil-fuel conflict

19 August 2021 - by Patrick Bond

Abstract The climate crisis is amplified by socio-political and economic injustices everywhere but in 2021, perhaps nowhere as acutely as northern Mozambique. There, the Cabo Delgado province is a site for military intervention against Islamic (…)
AEPF Statement on Bangladesh Factory Fire

12 July 2021 - by Asia Europe Peoples’ Forum (AEPF)

A food and beverage factory in Bangladesh was engulfed in fire killing at least 52 workers and injuring more than fifty others. The workers were trapped inside the building since the only exit had been locked. This illegal practice to force (…)