SB 1296 is meant to undercut & disempower Florida’s teachers, staff, professors & other public employees. Vote NO on SB 1296.

For over 20 years, India’s national rural jobs program provided a legal right to work for over 265 million people–the majority of them women–serving as a vital lifeline against poverty & a model for social security. Tragically, that lifeline is now being cut. moneyontheleft.org/2026/03/01/c...

CITIES SHOULD SELL MUNICIPAL BONDS TO THEIR OWN PUBLIC BANKS

Vachhrajani contextualizes the sudden 2026 demise of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act & its replacement by arbitrary budget caps & centralized control. moneyontheleft.org/2026/03/01/c...

At the same time, we continue to see new organizing in Florida and union members voting in favor of recertifying their unions, as is now required under state law for most public sector unions with a dues-paying membership of below 60% open.substack.com/pub/caringcl...

For over 20 years, India’s rural jobs program provided a legal right to work for over 265 million people–the majority of them women–serving as a vital lifeline against poverty & a global model for social security. Tragically, however, that lifeline is being cut. moneyontheleft.org/2026/03/01/c...

This is how we do it.

I'm still optimistic overall, but this is a real risk. To the extent the far right has a path after Trump, it involves a fifth column of far right sympathizers close to Democratic Party leadership keeping the left out of power while the GOP is slowly reformed into an "America First" nazi party.

Increasingly concerned about a fifth column of nazi-curious Democrats (Newsom, Platner, Krishnamoorthi) expanding rapidly as Trump sunsets and more of these people rebrand as Democrats. If Newsom is the nominee he will facilitate this while the GOP is taken over by MTG and Tucker Carlson.

Socially necessary Graeber time

We had an incredible conversation with Khush Vachhrajani this month. Khush not only details the current dismantling of India's rural job guarantee program, but also connects the ongoing fight for the jobs program to a broader politics of money. Please have a listen.

A ton of great pre-Codes await you on TCM this month, including all we need from life: a day of Joan Blondell movies! pre-code.com/pre-code-mov...

If everything had gone according to plan, Russ Vought would have fired every CFPB worker within his first week. Fortunately for the rule of law and every American cheated by the financial sector, very little went according to plan because of union power. ✊️

"What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and federal levels who refuse to push back?"

The economic paradigm isn't working, but the proposals to change it are ruled out by the centrists. Finnish parties are focused on the debt brake, except for the Left Alliance. A paradigm runs so deep that the majority perpetuates it's ideology by arguing through its logic.

"The scarcity story – that there is only enough for some of us – is what makes the politics of hate viable"

If you like this topical thread by @robbhawkes.bsky.social, you'll love his piece showing how the Green Party is actually quite well-suited to advance key aspects of the proposal for "Democratic Public Finance" by @moneyontheleft.bsky.social. moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/20/z...

Huge congratulations to @greenparty.org.uk and to Hannah Spencer MP on a truly historic result in Gorton and Denton 🎉 As we build on momentum, all of us on the British left must now avoid falling into a very familiar trap. 🧵 1/

Wow! H/t Kristin Thompson

Sometimes I think about how not very long ago I didn’t know Pete Hegseth existed.

I'm glad to hear that Musk is now a fully-automated luxury post-money communist because it helps reveal what a bullshit stance that is.

Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks

Where we're going, we don't need loans.

#ShareGoodNewsToo: UAW's first union at a foreign-owned auto company in the South (VW) ratifies its first-ever contract. On UAW's unionization campaign at VW, here's a great "how we did it" piece by @chactivist.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2026/02/uaw-...

Launched by the Madison Public Library in 2014, MUSICat has since been adopted by public libraries, including in Pittsburgh, Nashville, Fort Worth, New Orleans, Edmonton and elsewhere.

Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/01/l...

Teaching Economics with Benjamin Wilson

Money Beyond Sovereignty

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Please God no.

Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

first in my line of critical universi-tees

Breaking: Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.

We speak with Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, about his book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.

"A city-run secondary market for used stuff that you’d put out in the street: like a public Facebook marketplace that takes a few cents from transactions or posting fees that go right into specified city programs."

"By cutting out the rentiers, the city thus transforms a parasitic financial drain into a regenerative cycle, guaranteeing that public interest is no longer just a yield for private financiers, but a shared benefit in the public interest."

We’re excited to announce that the 2027 SCMS Annual Conference will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 17–20, 2027, at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel. We look forward to gathering together in this vibrant city and welcoming the SCMS community to Montréal in 2027.

You don't say.

CFPB Union President Cat Farman on the year-long fight to save the CFPB and in turn protection in the financial marketplace for working Americans. #stopvought #savecfpb

Hey hey, ho ho: Russel Vought has got to go! ✊

What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!) Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance. 1/

"Pass a law through city council that gives city pensions first bidding rights in competitive sales of city bonds, even before private banks, lowering the underwriters discount cost to the city."

"[W]hen a public bank purchases its own city’s municipal debt, the result is not a closed loop in which a finite amount of money is passed back and forth. ... Far from an inert circuit, a public bank that purchases city debt is a dynamic design that defies the artificial gravity of austerity."

"In my work, like my recent book on school finance, I try to make the otherwise arcane and hard-to-understand world of municipal finance more comprehensible to the people impacted by it."

Councilwoman Lynn Hurtak files paperwork to join Tampa mayoral race www.cltampa.com/news/council...

"What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and federal levels who refuse to push back?"

"If money is the ongoing process of issuing & deleting credits, it cannot be ... understood as an inert quantity that reflects past accomplishments. ... & it certainly cannot be scarce unless we make it so. Money is, instead, the world-making act of crediting those actors who construct the future."

"When a public bank purchases its own city’s municipal debt, the result is not a closed loop in which a finite amount of money is passed back and forth. ... Because the public bank actively generates money ..., [this] is a dynamic design that defies the artificial gravity of austerity."

"[W]e know that Mamdani and company want to challenge these old dynamics. Why not take up some medium-term measures, and maybe champion longer-term transformations, that make this arcane debt service stuff a relic of the past?"

Next, we need to digitize and automate all sports. No more pesky long-term training. Imagine the productivity gains. The world will finally be a happy place.