https://znetwork.org/author/bselwyn/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:25:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/bselwyn/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-is-attracting-investment-to-the-us-but-at-a-huge-cost-to-workers-and-the-environment/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-is-attracting-investment-to-the-us-but-at-a-huge-cost-to-workers-and-the-environment/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:25:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291614 Early in his second presidency, Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs was met with widespread scepticism. Critics warned of economic decline and a global backlash. Yet the current landscape for the United States paints a more complex picture. Less than a year into his second term in office, the White House claims that Trump is bringing manufacturing back to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-is-attracting-investment-to-the-us-but-at-a-huge-cost-to-workers-and-the-environment/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/decolonising-development-with-frantz-fanon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/decolonising-development-with-frantz-fanon/#respond Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:53:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1253818 The great cultural theorist Stuart Hall called Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth ‘the bible of decolonisation’ as it encapsulated the urge for freedom across the colonial world (1). Fanon illuminates how racism represented an organising principle for capitalist classes by systematically devaluing the lives of the majority of the world’s population. ‘For centuries the capitalists have behaved [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/decolonising-development-with-frantz-fanon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/amartya-sens-work-shows-us-the-human-cost-of-capitalist-development/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/amartya-sens-work-shows-us-the-human-cost-of-capitalist-development/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1238363 Amartya Sen is one of the most influential thinkers about development in the contemporary world. Since the 1970s, he has published widely across the disciplines of economics and philosophy. He received the Nobel Prize for Economic Science in 1998. In 2010, Time magazine rated Sen as one of the world’s one hundred most influential people. There is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/amartya-sens-work-shows-us-the-human-cost-of-capitalist-development/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rethinking-recovery-poverty-chains-and-global-capitalism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rethinking-recovery-poverty-chains-and-global-capitalism/#respond Sun, 24 Jul 2016 09:00:44 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=988640 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rethinking-recovery-poverty-chains-and-global-capitalism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-working-class-does-the-job/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-working-class-does-the-job/#respond Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:00:06 +0000 http://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=298723 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-working-class-does-the-job/feed/ 0