Lee Brown explains how Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Debt, a core tool of capitalism
Far from being opposed to it, capitalism depends on debt as a way of enforcing loyalty to the profit system from those that have the least to gain from it, explains JOHN GREEN
Debt, a core tool of capitalism
MARY ADOSSIDES of the London May Day Organising Committee calls on all to join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Although Musk’s cuts left a massive funding hole for reactionary projects ranging from subversive TV stations to hip-hop music, NATASHA HICKMAN warns that the money tap to anti-Cuban agitators will never be shut off under Trump
Mountains of research show that online hardcore material harms children by direct exposure and often indirectly - by those men porn inspires. Yet there are still no simple measures like age and content regulation in place, writes JOHN GREEN
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony
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BEING in debt and being unable to pay it off is one of the recurring nightmares for so many people and it has been the basis for many tragic lives in novels — most famously in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield.
In David Copperfield, the clerk Wilkins Micawber was incarcerated in a debtors’ prison after failing to meet his creditors’ demands. His long-suffering wife Emma stood by him, despite his financial exigencies that forced her to pawn all her family’s possessions.
Micawber’s name has become synonymous with someone who lives in hopeful expectation but is always financially on the edge. This has formed the basis for the Micawber Principle: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
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