Around the world, progressive groups have been quick to associate the unfolding financial crisis with concurrent crises of climate, food, energy, health care and militarism. Hailing the apparent breakdown of the neoliberal experiment, they have called for the building of integrated popular movements for greater “democratic control over financial and economic institutions” – a “new paradigm” that: “puts the financial system at the service of a new international democratic system based on the satisfaction of human rights, decent work, food sovereignty, respect for the environment, cultural diversity, the social and solidarity economy and a new concept of wealth.”
When Markets are Poison
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