Monthly Archives: May 2020

Today, 50 years after his assassination, Martin Luther King is more glorified than ever. In his honour, the conservative US President Ronald Reagan had already introduced a national holiday in 1983. The memory of the social revolutionary was politically instrumentalized, … Continue reading →

When one percent have half of the wealth, mistrust and cynicism drown out public spirit and trust between the generations. A fair tax system means ending tax havens, micro-second trading, stock buybacks and insider trading. Schools, hospitals and community centers … Continue reading →

if the government’s response to the debt accumulated during the crisis is austerity, it will make the situation even worse. It is therefore right to call for a more active and visionary state policy that shows a way out of … Continue reading →

Corona is the trigger but not the cause of the worsening crisis situation. It will accelerate the disintegration of capitalism. Pragmatism and cooperation on an international scale are called for. Sometimes the state protects life and sometimes relaxes it in … Continue reading →

Life in a “fatherless world,” as the English philosopher Shaftesbury wrote around 1700, is cruel and dysfunctional because a person without a father lacks “the relationship to the whole.”A first creeping, then rapid change of values has occurred within our … Continue reading →

The crisis has brought enormous suffering and even death to many people. Corona has thus raised the urgent question of how to live together on this planet in a good and fair way. A crack now runs through our imaginary … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/17/18833096.php The revolution may become conceivable, but it has hardly been thought of so far. The contradictions of the “old world” are deepening, but the contours of a “new world” are not yet emerging, nor is the path to it. … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833047.php Now there are exactly two ways to revive the economy. The first and best option is to push back the neo-liberal agenda, strengthen the trade unions…If we do not succeed in pushing companies back into the role of debtors, … Continue reading →

by Joseph Woss, 4/27/2020, awblog.at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/18832972.php Work, income and wealth must be distributed more fairly, and a number of “rules of the game” in our society must be changed. The upheaval forced by the crisis will hopefully force even hard-boiled … Continue reading →