The seemingly frivolous laws passed by the Kenyan state serve to entrench the hegemony of the elite and the extractive and exclusionary patterns of economics that...
Nick Bernards argues that placing African labour in capitalism requires that we think seriously and in historical perspective about the politics of irregular forms of work....
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What matters now is not a question of profitability, not a question of productivity, not a question of production rates. And no, it is not a...
The Progressive International is mobilising with Amazon workers and their allies around the world. Here’s why.
In a major analysis of current developments at the level of the world and multinational market of late capitalism, Esteban Mora grapples with the phenomenon of...
A keynote by Naomi Klein, followed by a panel discussion with Aruna Roy, Tasneem Essop and Carola Rackete.
A keynote speech by Yanis Varoufakis, followed by a panel discussion with Ece Temelkuran, Vijay Prashad and Nick Estes.
Stefan Ouma provides a critical account of Africapitalism as well as an assessment of the future/s it imagines, what it silences and its potential to transform...
DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis on capitalism in crisis, and what should come next. Video by Double Down News. Support DDN: http://www.patreon.com/DoubleDownNews
The tale of Elkhorn is not one of a town laid low by rampant diphtheria but one of business as usual in spite of that awful...
By seeking to transform postcolonial Africans into entrepreneurs, neoliberal economic interventions misread Africa’s past. One outcome of this has been a profound transformation in the very...