The Party of Wall Street has ruled unchallenged in the United States for far too long. It has totally (as opposed to partially) dominated the policies of Presidents over at least four decades (if not longer), no matter whether individual Presidents have been its...
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Greece: going under | by Michael Roberts
The Greek prime minister George Papandreou’s call for a referendum on the bailout package agreed with the EU leaders and the IMF sounds like a move towards democracy. The Greek people are apparently going to be asked whether they want to accept or reject massive cuts...
Economic crisis and post-capitalism | Interview by Mat Little
Mat Little interviews the economist Harry Shutt about economic crisis and the left alternative. What marks Harry Shutt out as an economist is not that he predicted the financial crisis that struck in 2007 (two years before he warned of ‘an unavoidable financial...
The End of Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity | by Wang Hui
The publisher of Wang Hui’s book described it as follows: "arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, Wang Hui calls for alternatives to both its capitalist trajectory and its authoritarian...
Relax: alternative hedonism and a new politics of pleasure | Kate Soper
A predictable consequence of the current recession has been a renewal of interest in the politics of welfare and community values. As they seek to patch up a fresh consensus amidst the fallout from the latest crisis of capitalism, both sides of the party political...
Recovering from AIDS: Re-balancing social health priorities and practice | by Brian K. Murphy
‘Schmalhausen’s Law is a general principle that organisms in unusual or extreme conditions, at the boundary of their tolerance for any one aspect of their life conditions, are extremely sensitive to stressors in all aspects of their life conditions … A whole-system...
Recovering from AIDS: Re-balancing social health priorities and practice | by Brian K. Murphy
‘Schmalhausen’s Law is a general principle that organisms in unusual or extreme conditions, at the boundary of their tolerance for any one aspect of their life conditions, are extremely sensitive to stressors in all aspects of their life conditions … A whole-system...
The Struggle – for Socialism – Continues | by John S. Saul
This article seeks to identify ways in which those engaged in socialist practice in South Africa might hope to more clearly navigate their way forward. It asks, in short, what is to be done – and how?I. Beyond the “working class”: expanding the constituencyMarx had...
What anarchism and syndicalism offer the South African left | by Lucien van der Walt
The 21st century is a tiMe of both despair and hope: despair at the evils of contemporary society, hope that a new world is possible. The ideas of the broad anarchist tradition can contribute greatly to this new world. They are integrally tied to an inspiring body of...


