Laura Basu is openDemocracy's economics editor. She is the author of Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis and co-editor of The Media & Austerity.
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Publicado no/na: ourEconomy: OpinionThe assault on the Capitol was shameful. But defending the status quo isn’t the answer
Instead of taking sides in a civil war within the establishment, we should ask a simple question: how can we build a...
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Publicado no/na: ourEconomyStep aside progressive patriotism – intergalactic humanism has arrived
Nationalism will always be racist, no matter how ‘progressive’ it is. What would it mean to imagine a world beyond...
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Publicado no/na: PodcastsPodcast: Is capitalism racist?
With Black Lives Matter protests raging around the world, the latest ourVoices documentary asks how we can build an...
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Publicado no/na: ourEconomyCharles Mills: "There is an opening for a transracial class alliance"
In the latest episode of ourVoices podcast, Charles W. Mills speaks to us about racism, capitalism, and 'the racial...
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Publicado no/na: ourEconomyGargi Bhattacharyya: "racism is a state-sponsored predilection to early death"
In the latest episode of ourVoices podcast, Gargi Bhattacharyya talks to us about racial capitalism.
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Publicado no/na: ourEconomyourVoices podcast: Vijay Prashad on “is capitalism racist?”
In the latest episode of ourVoices, we ask historian Vijay Prashad if racial hierarchies are a necessary component...