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如果法国的黄背心抗议者获胜，将会发生什么？

如果抗议者的要求得到满足，就会有其他人被迫支付这笔费用。最有可能数千万或数亿人将被“征税”。他们不会生活在法国，欧盟，甚至是附近的任何地方。

12月 20th, 2018

What if protesters in Paris win, and the French government gives in to all their demands? What if taxes are reduced, wages increased, President Macron steps down? I am not talking only about the fuel tax; attempts to impose it have been already abandoned. I am not talking about an increase of the minimum wage – the government already agreed to

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Andre Vltchek

Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. Five of his latest books are “China Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting Countries, Saving Millions of Lives”, “China and Ecological Cavillation” with John B. Cobb, Jr., Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism, a revolutionary novel “Aurora” and a bestselling work of political non-fiction: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire”. View his other books here. Watch Rwanda Gambit, his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo and his film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky “On Western Terrorism”. Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the Middle East and continues to work around the world. He can be reached through his website and his Twitter. His Patreon

Is Venezuela on the Verge of a Social Explosion?

Marxist analyst Jorge Martin examines the causes, responses and solution to Venezuela’s current economic crisis.

7月 24th, 2018

作者 Jorge Martin

Is Venezuela on the Verge of a Social Explosion?

The aggravation of the economic crisis is making life unbearable for working people in Venezuela. The destruction of the purchasing power of wages has been combined with the collapse of all basic infrastructure (water, electricity and public transport). Workers in different sectors have started to organize and protest, demanding higher wages; while

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主导资本主义高糖：公司回购年龄

特朗普的减税政策引发了企业股票回购浪潮，这可能会稳定股市，但几乎没有提高工资或创造就业机会。

5月 25th, 2018

作者 Jon Jeter

WASHINGTON -- Weeks after he was sworn in as president, Donald Trump met with Harley-Davidson executives and union representatives at the White House, to win support for his tax-plan proposal: I think

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Jon Jeter

Jon Jeter is a published book author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent on two continents, as well as a former radio and television producer for Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life.”

The US Is One of the Only Countries That Doesn’t Recognize International Workers’ Day

It’s not a coincidence that while most Americans are struggling, just three individuals—Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett—together own as much wealth as half of the country combined.

5月 01st, 2018

作者 Saurav Sarkar

The US Is One of the Only Countries That Doesn’t Recognize International Workers’ Day

Most of the world recognizes May 1—May Day—as International Workers’ Day. Here in one of the few countries that doesn’t, it’s worth pausing to ask how U.S. workers are doing. At an event last December, Fight for $15 organizer Terrence Wise recalled “going to bed at night, ignoring my own stomach’s rumbling, but having to hear my three little

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Saurav Sarkar

Saurav Sarkar is the research coordinator for the Poor Peoples Campaign at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Data Shows Trump Tax Cuts Did Not Raise Wages, Instead Went to Corporate Executives

Companies are choosing not to share the wealth, even on the heels of the massive corporate welfare program that is the new tax law.

4月 16th, 2018

作者 Brian Wakamo

Data Shows Trump Tax Cuts Did Not Raise Wages, Instead Went to Corporate Executives

Once again, President Trump touted the supposed benefits of the new tax law at an April 12 ceremony in the Rose Garden. “Our massive tax cuts are growing paychecks all over our country [and] creating jobs and expanding the American dream just like we said would happen,”

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Congressional Budget Office Report Reveals The Rich Are Once Again Outpacing Everyone Else

The Congressional Budget Office has just released the latest iteration of its U.S. household income distribution series, and this new research rates as the nonpartisan agency’s most comprehensive yet.

3月 26th, 2018

作者 Sam Pizzigati

Congressional Budget Office Report Reveals The Rich Are Once Again Outpacing Everyone Else

Back in the 1980s, the decade that saw researchers start detailing America’s increasing concentration of income and wealth, flacks for the emerging Reagan economic order disdainfully dismissed the significance of the alarming new data. The United States isn’t getting more unequal, the Reaganites pronounced, and the middle class

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Sam Pizzigati

Sam Pizzigati co-edits Inequality.org. Among his books on maldistributed income and wealth: The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970. His latest book, The Case for a Maximum Wage, will appear this spring. Follow him at @Too_Much_Online.

“令人不安的里程碑”：美国前12位富豪如今拥有1万亿美元的财富

政策研究所的最新数据显示，尽管一场大流行使经济停滞了几个月，但美国的亿万富翁阶层却变得比以往任何时候都更加富有，自3月份全国范围内的封锁以来，他们的财富增加了近7,000亿美元。