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Universal basic income and the end of ‘democratic capitalism’
The idea of UBI is becoming popular on some parts of the left, but SEBASTIAN MULLER believes it would herald the final death-blow to the gains of the post-war era
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN MUCH of the Western world the period immediately following the second world war saw major changes in the nature of capitalist economic management and planning.
In response to the threats of renewed economic depression and of socialism (from both within and without), several of the major capitalist states expanded the role of the state in their national economies.
From interventionist fiscal and monetary policy to ensure full employment to outright nationalisations, the remit of governments to determine the broad parameters of the national economy expanded significantly.
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