real utopias

Here, Slavoj Zizek describes the use of neoliberal economics on the global scale. Neoliberalism is used haphazardly, sometimes ignored to the benefit of those ...

It is now sometimes hard to remember -- and for the generation that is now in college and wasn't necessarily reading the opinion pages at the time, it may seem nothing short of perverse -- but there was a period following the onset of the crisis...

Neoliberal economic policies, with their emphasis on market-led development and individual rationality, have been exposed as bankrupt not only by the global economic crisis but also by increasing social opposition and resistance.

Afshin Rattansi goes underground with Noam Chomsky on the crisis engulfing the West. From drone strikes in Yemen to potential conflict with Russia over the ...

The occupied territories are
trapped in global structures of neoliberal capitalist exploitation, within
which the PA and, indeed, Israel itself, increasingly resemble auxiliary
nodes.

Neoliberalism devours other competing world-views through the commodification of cultural difference—turning a tidy profit. Wrest this monopoly on political readings of Islam away from capital and authoritarianism.

Neoliberalism is an international phenomena. It is not enough to challenge it in Britain alone, we must also understand it and oppose it as a global system.

The mode of contemporary living is in many ways dysfunctional. There are the obvious and painful daily signs that affirm this: the 13 or so wars taking place; the fact that half the world’s population live impoverished lives on less than USD 2 a day, 80 per cent on under USD 10 a day.

In its Working for the Few briefing paper, Oxfam has called attention to a worrying trend: the wealth of 1% of the world’s richest people is equivalent to a total of US$ 110 trillion – 65 times the total wealth of the poorer half of the world’s population. In the last 25 years, wealth has been increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few; leading to a tiny elite owning 46% of the world’s wealth. An aggravating factor in this situation is that this wealth is mostly from profits derived from capital, property and assets, rather than from wages, as French economist Thomas Piketty recently showed in his outstanding book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A large number of highly profitable businesses are often under-taxed – an unacceptable trend across stock markets around the world. Ultimately, this contributes to economic inequality and creates a new Belle Époque, in which the social mobility of the working class is severely limited by the system of “patrimonial capitalism”.