Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis: special review forum.

Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis. Published by Adam D. Morton and myself in 2018, this book analyses how these conditions can be understood in terms of their internal relationship so as to capture capital’s connection to the states-system of uneven and combined development, social reproduction, and the contradictions facing humanity within world-ecology. In this blog post, I draw attention to a recently published Forum on this book by the journal International Relations with a range of exciting, critical interventions.

 

The failure of Robin Hood Energy and the missing labour-centred perspective

The attempt to address energy poverty through a municipal, not-for-profit public company was as ambitious as it was path-breaking. And yet the failure of Robin Hood Energy, owned by Nottingham Council, in September 2020 has ultimately undermined all those, who work towards the re-municipalisation of utilities such as water, energy, the railways and postal services. In this blog post, I will reflect on a presentation by Steve Battlemuch about the failure of Robin Hood Energy to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in November 2020. While key reasons for the failure had already been known, this presentation revealed an additional, astonishing factor: a missing labour-centred perspective by the labour movement itself.

 

Call for Papers - Trade unions and Free Trade in the post-pandemic environment: moving towards trade justice?

Free trade has been criticised for some time as being an obstacle to independent development of countries in the Global South supporting working people’s real needs. The assumed benefits of free trade for people in the Global North too have come increasingly under scrutiny. Does COVID-19, which has demonstrated the fragility of the global free trade regime, open up new space for labour movements in their struggles for an alternative regime organised around principles of trade justice?