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True Cost of Our Tea

A practice that exists in ‘peripheral’ as well as in ‘advanced’ capitalist power relations. Sexual abuse on Kenyan tea farms Related Italy: raped, beaten and exploited Spain: ‘If you don’t want to work like a slave, you’re out’

Qatar Migrant Workers in Global Context

“Exploitation under temporary migration regimes is far from exceptional and should be understood as structural. Certainly, we should highlight exploitation and be enraged about abuse, but this should not be exoticised as something uniquely Qatari. This, after all, is not about Qatar. It’s about the geographies of exploitation inherent in a global economy that succeeds or fails based on its ability to gain the most for the least amount of cost.” The Orientalist discourse hides structural exploitation Related Italy’s Migrant Boot Camp Raped, beaten, exploited “Italy’s Sikh Slaves” Spain: “If you don’t want to work like a slave …”

Marxian Economics: Presentation 1

Marx’s Law of Value

Migrant Workers in Britain

Some call it exploitation. Others call it meeting target and productivity. “We have borrowed a lot of money to come here, we passed long distance, left our relatives, not to get this. We came to work but we can’t work, earn money, we can’t save money and help our families. Sometimes there is a feeling that we can’t prove anything, that no one will help us.”   Low-paid migrant workers ‘trapped’ on Britain’s farms

The Bourgeoisie

“ The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. [T]he bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. [F]or exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades. The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and

US

It must be clearly established ... that the government of the United States is not the champion of freedom, but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world and against a large part of its own population.     —Che Guevara, from a speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations, 11 December 1964

Britain

Britain's persistent racism cannot simply explained by its imeprial history Related: Britain: imperial nostalgia

Capitalism and Imperialism

“International credit...represents the surest means by which the older capitalist states can keep the emerging ones under their tutelage....” Some of Rosa Luxemburg's insights

Exploitation

More propaganda against "our way of life" and "free market values" 1. How are we in the UK, for example, supposed to afford putting food on the table? 2. Aren't our aid organisations, philanthropists and celebrities helping poor people and our students learning how to empower them? 3. Hasn't this been going on for decades (centuries if we include the colonial era)? Why should we care now? Why should we question  capitalist relations nationally and worlwide? Maybe it is just some comapnies that are not "ethical"?   Exploitation and abuse in UK supermarket supply chains, says Oxfam