Capitalism: Bringing Your Family Together This Christmas (To Avoid Freezing to Death)

When international charities illustrate the immensity of poverty and deprivation in areas of the ‘Third World’, they often use a statistic of how many children die per minute from preventable diseases due to a lack of cleaning drinking water and sanitation. A common response to the brutal realities of capitalist production, distribution and consumption on [...]

Striking at the World Cup

Leftfield has already reported how the World Cup, far from being an economic benefit to South Africa, has in fact been a license for FIFA and international capitalism to loot the country. Now it looks as if the full force of the law might be used to keep the electricity supply to fans’ TVs running, [...]