Capitalism

Work

'Empty labour': Is skiving off work at the office unavoidable?

Researchers have looked at the moments of the day when employees are not working in the office. Does it mean our modern labour system isn’t as productive as we think?

29/09/2023

Climate

‘I’m part of the solution’: How Bill Gates justifies his private jets

Taking about his climate innovation, Bill Gates addresses a glaring contradiction.

09/02/2023

Culture news

Culture Re-View: A look back at this day in history

The legendary board game first went on sale in its current form on this day in 1935. But what happened to bring the famous family splitter to our tables? Roll your dice and read on...

06/02/2023

Earth News

Billionaire Patagonia boss gives company away to fight climate crisis

The outdoor fashion brand predicts it will give €100 million away a year to environmental causes under the new ownership structure.

15/09/2022

Earth News

Euroviews. The new IPCC report proves ‘green capitalism’ doesn’t work

The capitalist approach to ‘fixing’ climate change is failing slowly, which is a disaster, it needs to fail fast so that a new approach can replace it.

28/02/2022

Italy

Pope Francis says COVID-19 has proved capitalism does not work

Francis said the grave loss of millions of jobs as a result of the virus as evidence of the need for politicians to listen to popular movements, unions and marginalised groups.

04/10/2020

Earth News

Konnie Huq: Schools should teach environmental issues better

Students need to learn that it’s ‘cool’ to be environmentally-friendly, says Blue Peter's Konnie Huq.

03/09/2020

Germany

Euroviews. Global business must follow Germany’s private sector in linking COVID19 aid to climate action ǀ View

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the global economy. But it has also caused a respite in global emissions which some have interpreted as the dawn of a new chapter in the fight against climate change. But that new chapter is already taking a turn for the worse.

05/05/2020

Korea

Euroviews. Oscar-winning film Parasite has exposed the parasitic lives we all live under capitalism ǀ View

As long as we live within the framework of capitalism, where private ownership of property is allowed, we are not all free from the parasitic survival instinct in such an institutional framework. That’s why we can’t just blame such behaviours on the two families in the movie.

17/02/2020

USA

Euroviews. A free market brings freedom. Just look at what could be without a strong market ǀ View

When the Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet Union collapsed, a lot of us thought the war was over and the “good guys” had won. Capitalism was the dominant economic system and the free market was accepted almost everywhere as the path to prosperity and human happiness. Or so we thought.

06/11/2019

Sport

Meet the Swiss league that's the antidote to football's super rich

Meet the Swiss league that's the antidote to football's super rich

20/07/2019

World News

Euroviews. Capitalism is failing us all. Could Islamic economics be the answer? ǀ View

Once we strip away the Arabic terminology, concepts like zakat can return our economies to the common sense-based, transparent and equitable set up that the architects of modern capitalism envisaged.

16/04/2019