BREAKING: Explosions have been heard and smoke is rising over the Venezuelan capital, according to Al Jazeera correspondent, as tensions with the US spiral. Parts of the city’s south, near a major military base, have reportedly lost power aje.io/pv5l3e

If Mamdani is indeed as progressive as he says he is then he would realize that YIMBY is a total scam. utahvanguard.medium.com/mamdanis-yim...

#OtD 2 Jan 1905 @IWW union was conceived in the US at the Conference of Industrial Unionists in Chicago. Formally constituted at a subsequent conference in June, the IWW was a new kind of revolutionary, multi-racial union to unite all workers. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...

Enjoying this series. Part I: sawicky.substack.com/p/questions-... Part II: sawicky.substack.com/p/questions-...

Europe’s pursuit of defense security embodies the adoption of an economic stimulus model that utterly contradicts the means for social security. utahvanguard.medium.com/the-crumblin...

Interesting article on the sociological approach to freedom at @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Adem Elveren and I introduce the concept of the security trilemma to argue that to simultaneously maximize national security, social security, & trade security is challenging, especially for the periphery, given the nature of neoliberal world-system. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

where do people think al-Qaeda came from in the first place?

AI embodies capitalism’s ultimate drive for accumulation but simultaneously dismantles the very structural mechanism required for the system’s self-preservation. utahvanguard.medium.com/is-ai-capita...

The victory of Mamdani in New York City is a breath of progressive fresh air. To help ensure that he commits to his promises, I offer some constructive criticism. utahvanguard.medium.com/mamdanis-yim...

YIMBY helped make NYC one of the most expensive cities in the world for housing, so how is YIMBY going to make it affordable?

An internment camp for the unsheltered far outside the city. This is YIMBY.

I spoke with Salvadoran journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social about the rise of fascism, militarism, and tech-bro gentrification under Nayib Bukele's indefinite state of exception.

“Unbridled desire to work”…they really want your soul don’t they? Your labor, it seems, is not enough.

Award-winning Palestinian author on Israeli prison, exile and homeland flip.it/_05WlO

Returning to Gaza City, a family finds bulldozed graves and little hope flip.it/kZRjP6

A classic! (now with a new transcript and art)

Politics as a vocation

The sham prize awarded to three white males for the most insipid Schumpeterian theory of technological change…

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Capitalism cultivates psychosocial, cultural syndromes, of which liberalism exacerbates that sets in motion the conditions for fascism to take root and metastasize. realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

#Capitalism suffers from psychosocial pathologies, and by blaming the marginalized, it inevitably paves the way for #fascism in our society. @austerityismurder.bsky.social & @profdavidfields.bsky.social

The confluence of profit redirection from the real economy towards financialization and the simultaneous erosion of social protections fundamentally engenders human deprivation. utahvanguard.medium.com/securing-pro...

Instead of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to deserving persons, like the journalists of Gaza or Sumud Flotilla Activists, in particular Greta Thunberg, it is given to a right wing, US funded, Venezuelan Zionist who has tirelessly worked to undermine the Bolivarian Revolution.

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility" authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Recurring fiscal crises afflicting U.S. municipalities are neither isolated nor accidental occurrences; rather, they constitute a deliberate political strategy engineered to achieve specific, capitalist class-based outcomes. utahvanguard.medium.com/from-manager...

Inequality is the modus operandi of the economy. utahvanguard.medium.com/on-economic-...

My latest post…...https://annpettifor.substack.com/

Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Fair Trade ostensibly presents itself as an oppositional force, aiming to forge direct, more equitable international trading partnerships. Alas, it constitutes an illusory promise, which ultimately reinforces unequal exchange. utahvanguard.medium.com/the-fair-tra...

The conventional conception of business competition postulates a static, zero long-run rate of profit. This is fallacious. utahvanguard.medium.com/a-short-note...

A graphical summary of Nicos Poulantzas argument about the rise of totalitarianism in Italy and Germany in his book Fascism & Dictatorship. The graphic is from Dylan Riley's brilliant forward to the book. It is hauntingly familiar, and almost echoes in our own time.

I have an essay in the latest issue of New Labor Forum. The whole issue looks great… especially the @cgmaisano.bsky.social article on the future(lessness) of conservative leftism. Thanks to @micahuetricht.bsky.social for the editing help!

This recent Fed rate cut credit will primarily facilitate short-term investments and benefit capital positions, as opposed to stimulating the real economy, owing to insufficient effective demand. utahvanguard.medium.com/a-short-note...

The prevailing atmosphere of widespread frustration, cynicism, and despair is not a series of disconnected or random events. Rather, it represents a direct and causal consequence of the anomie inherent in capitalism. utahvanguard.medium.com/the-cultural...

The housing crisis in America won’t be solved by more markets or endlessly tinkering with the fine print in the zoning laws. If we want our cities filled with working people rather than empty second homes, consider what the socialists of Paris are doing. From The Big Read at the @financialtimes.com:

Güne Fields'tan bir okuma önerisi hediye etmiş olalım. Kendisi bizde de epey meşhur ve dillere pelesenk "maliye politikası para politikasına eşlik etmiyor" şarlatanlığına dair de iyi bir tablo hazırlamış.

Looking forward to this discussion with comrades that are familiar with the German socialization debates ca 1919 and the calculation debates a decade or so later. Excited to learn something new.

The current weakness of the US labor market, as manifested by a four year high in the official unemployment rate, which excludes discouraged workers, constitutes a long-run expected outcome of monetary & fiscal austerity. utahvanguard.medium.com/weakening-u-...

The world is characterized by a multifaceted crisis of systemic exploitation. It’s not isolated but resonates across all societal strata, Amidst this widespread distress, an undercurrent of revolutionary impetus endures. utahvanguard.medium.com/praxis-reima...

Old @nytimes.com headline of a fight between the President and the Fed. This was before the Treasury-Fed Accord of 1951. Eccles was for supporting of fiscal expansion in the '30s, providing a guarantee for the 2.5 interest on long-term bonds, and then for independence, after he was demoted by Truman

Positing the economy as a demand-led, inherently unstable system constrained not by a static productive capacity but by its own structural contradictions, offers a far more accurate understanding of macroeconomic dynamics. utahvanguard.medium.com/economic-gro...

The US Constitution is revered like the Bible. Far from an emblematic celebration of democracy, it is a foundational social and ideological document whose reactionary origins have enabled a uniquely US trajectory of fascism. utahvanguard.medium.com/the-us-const...

Brief impressions of two books: Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards and Wasserman's Marginal Revolutionaries. On the rise of paleo-libertarians and the relation with the Austrian school nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/2025/08/marg...

Just one more footnote to my reading of Wasserman's book, on his comments on Bob Heilbroner. I didn't have much contact with Bob, but enough to think that some of his points seem incorrect to me. At any rate, for those interested nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/2025/08/was-...

"The outlook and changes to the framework from Powell may be perceived as hawkish, especially at a time when financial markets expect imminent rate cuts. More accurately, this is what the Fed looks like when navigating risks to both sides of its mandate." stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/framing-up...