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, by ALBO Greg, GINDIN Sam, PANITCH Leo
With the recent publication of their new book on the financial crisis and the crisis of the North American Left, In and Out Of Crisis (PM Press, 2010), ZNet took the opportunity to interview Greg Albo, Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch on some of the themes of the book and the struggles that now (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
The Punjab government subsidized scheme of 10 Rupees a kilo for wheat flour (Atta) has made Shahbaz Sharif, the chief minister, very “popular” in Punjab and Pakistan. The Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) is banking on this and other popular schemes introduced by their government in Punjab as the main (…)
, by HUSSON Michel
It is now time to pose the question of what comes after the crisis. Not because it is ending, as we are led to believe by the on-message optimists whose sole concern is that everything goes back to what it was before, but because it is useful to identify the obstacles which a possible recovery (…)
, by POST Charles
ON SEVERAL POINTS there is general agreement among most, if not all, radical and revolutionary anti-capitalists and socialists regarding the current economic crisis:
(1) The crisis is not simply the result of the neoliberal deregulation of the financial sector. While there has been plenty of (…)
, by HOUTART François
United Nations Conference on the Financial crisis and itis impact on development - New York, June 24 -26 2009.
Much has been said on the impacts of the crisis on the fundamentals of the economy and its social consequences, because of the artificial and unequal character of the growth and its (…)
, by La Via Campesina
The food price crisis and the financial crisis are the result of years of ultra-liberal deregulation that can be traced back to the crimes against humanity committed against native Americans and Africans to maximise profit. Investors and speculators looking for the highest profits have used (…)
, by DHAR Sushovan
The first-ever summit of the BRIC [1] countries took place at Yekaterinburg at Russia on 16th June 2009 calling for a more diversified international monetary system. The core focus of the meeting, attended by President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese (…)
, by VIDAL John
Across the globe, as mining and oil firms race for dwindling resources, indigenous peoples are battling to defend their lands – often paying the ultimate price.
It has been called the world’s second “oil war”, but the only similarity between Iraq and events in the jungles of northern Peru (…)
, by HUSSON Michel
The current crisis originated in the financial arena but quickly spread to all of the so-called real economy. This observation raises two questions. A theoretical question: how to analyze the relationship between finance and the real economy and their responsibility for the crisis? And a more (…)
, by Peoples’ Summit of the Americas
As representatives from a wide diversity of trade union, farmer, indigenous, women’s, youth, consumer advocacy, human rights, environmental and, in general, social and civil organizations that are part of hemispheric networks such as the Hemispheric Social Alliance and united here at the IV (…)
, by LILLEY Sasha, PANITCH Leo
Sasha Lilley: This past Wednesday, before the start of the G20 Summit in London, France and Germany asked for more regulation as a response to the unraveling of the financial system, while the US has stated it would like to a see a coordinated global stimulus plan without such regulation. How do (…)
Jubilee Debt Campaign is disappointed that world leaders have not understood the systemic nature of the economic crisis or the need for radical change to address it. The crisis is affecting us all, but is having particularly disastrous effects on the poorest in society and the poorest countries. (…)
, by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
The brave new world of neoliberalism lies in ruins. Its wealth turned out to be robbery, sham and deceit.
The Left is in a new situation. Without its self-transformation and the development of a ca-pacity to act that is adequate to the times, it will squander for a long time any possibility of (…)
, by BELLO Walden
30 March, 2009: The Group of 20 (G20) is making a big show of getting together to come to grips with the global economic crisis. But here’s the problem with the upcoming summit in London on April 2: It’s all show. What the show masks is a very deep worry and fear among the global elite that it (…)
, by ANTENTAS Josep Maria, VIVAS Esther
If anything characterized the recent G20 summit in London it was the grandiloquence of the declarations of its participants, bent on giving historical importance to their decisions and searching for phrases that could make an impact. But what lies behind the agreements announced and the policies (…)
, by MILLET Damien, TOUSSAINT Éric
The G20 summit meeting in London from April 1st onward was loudly announced and publicized. Those 20 industrialized and emergent countries (G20) are meeting to find solutions to the crisis. But long before the end of the summit, it is clear that they will not rise to the challenge. The G20 was (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Socialism’s all the rage. “We Are All Socialists Now,” Newsweek declares. As the right wing tells it, we’re already living in the U.S.S.A. But what do self-identified socialists (and their progressive friends) have to say about the global economic crisis? In the March 4, 2009, issue, we (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Speech delivered at the Conference on the Global Crisis sponsored by Die Linke Party and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, March 20-21, 2009.
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Week after week, we see the global economy contracting at a pace worse than predicted by the gloomiest analysts. We (…)
, by SADER Emir, TOUSSAINT Éric
The first part of this interview, on the Obama team, was already dealt with in a previous article: Economy: Obama chooses those who have a record of failure, but not the two following questions.
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What is your opinion of Team Obama?
Toussaint: Obama picked the very (…)
, by SABADO François
Report given at the meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International in February 2009. This report is situated within the framework of and in continuity with the report submitted at the Executive Bureau meeting in November 2008. .
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We will not (…)
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