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![Current surveillance technologies have greatly increased employers' power over workers, says scholar Ivan Manokha.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/2019_0324-polychroniou-400x300.jpg)
Workplace Surveillance Is Central to Capitalist Exploitation
Current surveillance technologies have greatly increased employers' power over workers, says scholar Ivan Manokha.
![A Green New Deal should not be tied to growth.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/2019_0305-degrowth-green-new-deal-b-400x300.jpg)
A Green New Deal Must Not Be Tied to Economic Growth
We must not reproduce the ideology of capitalist growth, which created the climate crisis in the first place.
![Protesters rally in solidarity with the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 1, 2019. Such disasters symbolize capitalism's failure to secure basic human rights and environmental protections in Brazil.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/2019_0303-brazil-400x300.jpg)
Brazil Dam Collapse Is a Human Rights Disaster and Crime
Such disasters symbolize capitalism's failure to secure basic human rights and environmental protections in Brazil.
![Teachers, students and supporters attend a rally at Roots International Academy after a march down International Boulevard in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/GettyImages-1132395684-400x300.jpg)
The Oakland Teachers Strike Is a Direct Challenge to Neoliberalism
The Oakland teachers’ strike is a watershed moment for U.S. labor.
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Death by Charity: the Dark Side of Decluttering
Capitalism kills — and charity is one of its tools.
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When We See the Sacred in Each Other, Social Movements Flourish
We must reclaim our impulse for an authentic collective sensibility that's been co-opted by the market system.
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Is New York’s Amazon Overthrow a Turning Point in Capitalism?
Popular rejection of the begging and bribing system that favors corporations is growing stronger.
![What can be done to reorganize society so wealth is no longer concentrated into so few hands while millions of people live in extreme poverty?](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/02/GettyImages-1044967468-400x300.jpg)
The Growing Wealth Gap Marks the Return of Oligarchy
What can be done so wealth is no longer concentrated with the few? Economist Thomas Weisskopf discusses.
![Employees leave the GM Lordstown Plant on November 26, 2018, in Lordstown, Ohio. GM said it would end production at five North American plants including Lordstown, and cut 15 percent of its salaried workforce.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/02/2019_0212-gm-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Broken Promises to the Land of “American Carnage”
The loss of an Ohio General Motors plant is just the latest dispatch from the heartland of Trump's “American carnage.”
![A once vibrant Joshua tree has been severed by high winds, according to park rangers, on January 8, 2019, at Joshua Tree National Park in Joshua Tree, California. Initial reports had attributed the damage to vandals who had entered the park, but rangers now say the tree was felled by natural causes.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/02/GettyImages-1081008998-400x300.jpg)
The Shutdown as Shock Doctrine
The right wing could use the shutdown as a pretext to accelerate cuts to public services it deems "inessential."