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, by PANITCH Leo
Workers’ Liberty. What is your assessment of the relationship between this serious financial crisis emerging foremost in the U.S. and American power and economic decline?
I don’t think that U.S. hegemony has waned, and I don’t think it’s about to wane in the very near future, despite the (…)
, by STEDILE João Pedro
The Brazilian Landless Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – MST) has been at the forefront of militant struggles against neoliberalism and capitalism in Latin America for many years now. They continue to be a key pole of militancy in the upsurge of socialism and renewal of (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Week after week, we see the global economy contracting at a pace worse than predicted by the gloomiest analysts. We are now, it is clear, in no ordinary recession but are headed for a global depression that could last for many years.
The fundamental crisis: overaccumulation
Orthodox (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
With the global capitalist crisis continuing to escalate Alan Thornett examines its general character; the responses of governments; the turn to interventionism; nationalisation and what it represents, the response of the working class and the kind of demands the left should put forward. (…)
, by BBC, BELLO Walden
A much longuer version of this paper has been puboished by the Philippine Daily Inquirer and can be found on ESSF website too. See: The global collapse: a non-orthodox view
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The dramatic downturn gripping the global economy has breathed new life into old questions (…)
, by PATO Thadeus
According to Karl Marx historic tragedies repeat as a farce. Considering, what is nowadays labelled as “Neo-Keynesianism” concerning the official crisis management of the bourgeois state, one gets the impression, that what Keynes intended origi nally, in fact is re-performed as a farce….
For (…)
, by ALTVATER Elmar
This paper on the crisis has been presented at the World Social Forum gathered in the Amazon city of Belém.
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There is no historical proof that the ten biblical plagues that the God of the people of Israel inflicted upon the Egyptians, according to the second book (…)
, by BRENNER “Bob” Robert P. , SEONGJIN Jeong
ROBERT BRENNER, AN editor of Against the Current and the author of The Economics of Global Turbulence (Verso, 2006), was interviewed by Seongjin Jeong for Hankyoreh, Korea’s leading daily newspaper. This interview was published on January 22, 2009 and has been slightly edited for publication (…)
, by Movements (Europe)
More than 150 representatives of trade unions, farmers’ movements, global justice groups, environmental groups, development groups, migrants’ groups, faith‐based groups, women’s groups, the have‐not movements, student and youth groups, and anti‐poverty groups from all over Europe gathered on the (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
Peter Gowan, activist and academic, born 15 January 1946; died 12 June 2009. The article we are reproducing below is the last one he wrote for the New Left Review. We are and shall be posting online on ESSF website articles on and from Peter.
For the articles on Peter, click GOWAN Peter
For (…)
, by PORTER Jim
The crisis of 1929 unleashed inter-imperialist trade conflicts which then contributed to transforming the crisis into a long depression and a world war. The capitalist crisis unleashed in 2008 will be all the deeper in that it has been delayed by a level of indebtedness without precedent in (…)
In the thirty five years since the first oil crisis world car production has doubled, going from 33 million in 1975 to 73 million in 2007. In most developed capitalist countries, the usual mode of management of this growth has been that of crisis with restructuring among firms, factory closures (…)
, by AMIN Samir, KOTHARI Smitu, KURUVILLA Benny
Samir Amin: “It was the financial corporations that asked the governments to step in and ‘nationalise’ them. The rescue package was drafted by them, and they are in control of most of the bailout money.”
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THE financial crisis continues to spread rapidly across the world, (…)
, by HUSSON Michel, THOMAS Martin
The world economic crisis took a sharp turn for the worse in September 2008. Some of the Marxist economists who had discussed the crisis in our first series of interviews, March-July 2008, have commented again. No.1: Michel Husson.
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1. Do you think that the (…)
, by KILMISTER Andy
The current economic crisis has broken the temporary solutions which have ruled the world economy since the mid-1980s. Profits had been created through production but, in contradiction, were realised through circulation and exchange. British is now exceptionally vulnerable to the crisis. (…)
, by PANITCH Leo
The world economic crisis took a sharp turn for the worse in September 2008. Some of the Marxist economists who had discussed the crisis in our first series of interviews, March-July 2008, have commented again. No.3: Leo Panitch.
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Last time we (…)
, by PANITCH Leo
First let’s be clear about capitalism – and with it the character of the state under capitalism. There is a conventional assumption, a leftover of the cold war perhaps, that somehow capitalism is essentially about the market and socialism is essentially about the state. In fact, a central (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
November 30, 2008 — Ernest Mandel called the market crash and global recession of 1974-5 the second slump’’ – the first one being of course that of the 1930s, initiated by the stockmarket crash of 1929. We now know that the crash of 2008-9 is more severe, and will have more devastating (…)
, by GINDIN Sam
Over the last quarter century, the left in most of the developed world has been marginalized as a social force. The ’culture of possibilities’ for left alternatives has correspondingly narrowed. But historic changes, above all the discrediting of neoliberalism, hold out the potential of at long (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Not surprisingly, the swift unraveling of the global economy combined with the ascent to the U.S. presidency of an African-American liberal has left millions anticipating that the world is on the threshold of a new era. Some of President-elect Barack Obama’s new appointees – in particular (…)
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