NB: This is an excellent portal for regular political/economic commentary on world affairs. This one has many essays on South Asia. The generalised implosion of political institutions is a symptom of the endemic unsustainability of global capitalism. Unfortunately this state of affairs will continue (ie the ruling establishments will carry on with their ‘austerity economics’; violent conflict and chauvinist ideologies) unless they are confronted by democratic popular movements. DS

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• Pakistan’s debt from China becomes burden as CPEC does not generate enough growth
• Pakistan Collapsing
• India – Precarity: The perilous lives of Indian workers
• Debt crisis – Ukraine: Resisting the Shock Doctrine: Ukraine, Debt, and Reconstruction
• France – Social movements: France Shown Yellow Card
• France: What happens when Macron has already been defeated but the great popular movement has not won?
• Spanish State – Vulture funds: Madrid Manifesto against illegitimate debt and investment fund actions
• Debt in History – Illegitimate debt: The urgent need to repudiate debt

• Agrarian Distress – Food Sovereignty – Ecology/Climate – Natural Resources The Avocados of Wrath
• Monarchy – Tax Justice – United Kingdom Britain’s royal rip-off
• Crisis – Inflation Rates up, economy down
• Banks – Financial crisis – USA: First Republic – the case for public ownership
• Belt and Road – China – Imperialism: China’s Overseas Investment in the Belt and Road Era
• BRICS – Capitalism – Crisis: A multipolar world and the dollar
• Banks, Capitalism, Crisis – Neoliberalism: Banks on the Brink? The Origins, Nature, and Trajectory of the Crisis
• Capitalism – Crisis – Financial crisisWell founded pessimism
• Feminisms – India – Microcredit: Microfinance Institutions in West Bengal: A Death Trap?
• Poverty – World Bank: Incoming World Bank President Ajay Banga’s predatory-finance background threatens even more prolific Bank poverty-creation
• Banks – Financial crisis – United States of America (USA)The Mechanics of a Bond Market and its Impact on the Banking Crisis
• Debt crisis – IMF – World Bank: Éric Toussaint, “The IMF and the WB bear a great responsibility in weakening countries that have to face external shocks”
• Austerity/Structural Adjustment – France: What’s the problem with pensions?
• Ecology/Climate – Europe: The Last Winter of Gas in Europe

The Sacrificial Altar of Extractive Capitalism: Notes on Abolition and Transition

Lee Camp: The Dark Secret History of Capitalism

Robert Urquhart: Capital accumulation as eternal recurrence: theology of the bad infinity

Money as Empire?

Walter Benjamin: Capitalism as Religion (1921)

Clara Mattei: How Economists Invented Austerity / Anwar Shaikh: What Happens When Economics Doesn’t Reflect the Real World?

A Summary of Marx’s Critique of Capital

‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village

Sam Kriss: ‘Neoliberalism’ isn’t a left-wing insult but a monstrous political system of inequality