Economy

Uncle Sam and Latin America

Indignation and resistance to United States President Donald Trump鈥檚 bullying, deportations and economic reprisals are spreading across Latin America, writes Steve Ellner.

Environmentalists say the toxic practices of industrial-scale fish farms damage Tasmania鈥檚 reputation as 鈥渃lean and green鈥. Philippa Skinner reports.

Trade unions have led the fight for peace since the fight against conscription in World War I. Steve O鈥橞rien argues that we need to resist attacks on the trade union movement, because it will stymie the peace movement.聽

woman standing in front of a stall

Latin America is in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis, characterised by rising costs and falling real wages, reports Ben Radford.

Protesters with banners

Workers in Peru鈥檚 Lima and Callao regions went on strike in protest over the Dina Boluarte government鈥檚 failure to combat rising violence and insecurity, reports Ben Radford.

United States President Donald Trump has tried to justify his tariff war on the world on the basis that the US has been聽鈥渓ooted, pillaged, raped and plundered鈥. Peter Boyle聽argues that this is an inversion of reality.

Peter Dutton鈥檚聽new policy to force gas companies to increase supply to the domestic market merely appears to聽stand up to聽the gas corporations. Alex Bainbridge聽argues it does the opposite.

Donald Trump graph pointing downwards

In this interview with Federico Fuentes, Marxist economist Michael Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by United States President Donald Trump and how they fit into Trump鈥檚 broader project to reassert US global hegemony.

Sign reads 'Resist Fascism'

An estimated 5.1 million people mobilised across the United States against President Donald Trump鈥檚 far-right, anti-worker, anti-people agenda, reports Malik Miah.

Adam Hanieh against background of US dollar bills

Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and Global Development, whose research focuses on capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East. 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes sat down with Hanieh to discuss the state of global imperialism today and the significance of Donald Trump鈥檚 presidency.

Trump and tariff list

Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by United States President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion, writes Binoy Kampmark.

A new report found that an income of $130,000 a year is required to avoid rental stress, but Labor has no plan to address extortionate rents, argues Isaac Nellist.