Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by VERCAMMEN François
Nervousness reigns in the highest European spheres as the Nice summit approaches. The Danish setback followed a series of failures: the fall of the Euro and the inability of Duisenburg and his cronies at the European Central Bank (ECB) to develop a coherent policy (from a bourgeois point of (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
A fundamental obstacle fell on October 5 for those who want to establish a genuine “left”. The whole day had been marked more by jubilation than by confrontations; the police presence ’guarding’ the Parliament or state television buildings was derisory - by comparison with what is seen in Paris (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
Contribution presented at the third Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) held, Seoul, Korea, 17-21.
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1. A turning point
In the coming years, the European Union (EU) will have a decisive choice to make in relation to nuclear energy. The first generation of reactors and power plants (…)
, by RICHARDS Gareth Api
Presented at the Trade and Economy Forum: “The Impact of Neo Liberal Globalisation and the Struggles for People’s Alternatives”, ASEM 2000 People’s Forum , Seoul, 18-19 October 2000.
Introduction
For many authoritative commentators the worst of the East Asian economic crisis is over. (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
This year we commemorate the deaths of three leading figures of our movement. Daniel Bensaïd Marxist activist and philosopher, emerging from the May 1968 movement in France, who died too early in 2010 after a life as leader of the French section and the Fourth International. Ernest Mandel whose (…)
, by European Commission
The ASEM Process
, by LE BLANC Paul
IN THESE COMMENTS on the spirit and mind of this great revolutionary thinker and activist, I think it makes sense to begin with a focus on her gender. It isn’t clear that Rosa Luxemburg herself would be inclined to agree. She had, after all, refused to occupy a “safer”and marginalized position (…)
, by SINGER Daniel
Since the collapse of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union, many on the left seem to have swallowed the idea that there is no alternative to capitalism. Debate has been limited to what can (or rather cannot) be achieved within its confines. Here is a powerful book with the opposite message: What (…)
, by KRISHNAN Raghu, SKANTHAKUMAR Balasingham
The New Socialist debate on Social Democracy is taking place in a global context that is markedly different from what it was just a few short years ago.
Two major differences spring to mind.
Firstly, crisis has hit the global economy quicker and more deeply than even some of (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
In the midst of the bombing campaign it is impossible for us to grasp the full significance of the NATO war against Yugoslavia. This is particularly true for those of us living in NATOland since the war, for us, is purely synthetic experience, television images as part of our daily, normal (…)
, by MARIK Soma
“ In 1903, when the RSDLP was facing dissension on the question relating to membership in the Party, Luxemburg stood on the side of the Mensheviks. She criticized the Leninist-Stalinist teaching about the Party of a new type, resulting from an opportunist theory of spontaneity; she vigorously (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Capitalism’s project of globalisation seems to be running into problems. The spectacular worsening of the world economic crisis and Gerhard Schröder’s victory in the German elections suggest that good news may be at hand: the end of our winter of neo-liberalism, to be replaced by a spring of (…)
, by LEWIN Moshe
The figures for September show that 44.4 million Russians are living below the poverty line. Twice as many as this time last year. Meanwhile the wheat harvest, at 50 to 60 million tonnes, has barely reached second world war levels. It will cover only a small amount of the country’s requirements. (…)
, by WEISSMAN Susan
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION is dead. The last of its veterans and contemporaries are gone, and the working class of today has little or no connection to the revolutionary movements of the inter-war generation that were inspired by the Russian Revolution. Revolutionary leftists may still debate the (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
Belgrade’s take-over of the autonomous province of Kosovo nine years ago was the first blow to the system of constitutional balances inherited from the Tito era and marked the rise to power of Slobodan Milosevic. The second was the constitutional change to the status of Serbs in the Croatian (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
During the 1930s, many communists and socialists from Germany and Austria sought refuge from the Nazis in the USSR. But in a shocking betrayal, the Soviet secret police handed over hundreds of them to Hitler’s Gestapo.
The Soviet Union’s 1936 constitution afforded “the right of asylum to (…)
, by BOVÉ José
Following is a statement by Jose Bove, French farmer and unionist, to a French court during a trial on charges of destroying genetically modified maize. Bove is best known for actions against the McDonaldization of food.
The strength of our union movement rests on this determination to (…)
, by VERCAMMEN François
Trotsky made an inestimable contribution to the preservation and development of revolutionary Marxism in the first half of the 20th century, both by his militant activity and by his analyses.
This contribution embraces a vast terrain stretching from the comprehension of particular societies (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
Between the two poles of Blairite accommodation to neo-liberalism and nationalist populist accommodation to xenophobia lies a socialist left of many millions in the former Soviet Bloc in search of socialist advance. These people can be found in the parties from the Ukrainian left in the East (…)
, by Wise
After the 1979 Harrisburg (US) accident the nuclear industry faced a serious decline in selling nuclear power reactors. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster made sales drop off even more, as several countries decided not to build any new nuclear power plants. Since the early 1980s, industry has been (…)
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