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...
How the 1 percent rules | Lance Selfa

How the 1 percent rules | Lance Selfa

The Occupy movement’s most powerful unifying factor has been its clear and simple identification of the key problem in American society: the divide between the vast majority of the population–the 99 percent–and the richest and most powerful 1...
Where Did the Left Go? | by Serge Halimi

Where Did the Left Go? | by Serge Halimi

The Occupy Wall Street protests in the US are also directed against the Street’s representatives in the Democratic Party and the White House. The protesters probably don’t know that Socialists in France still consider Barack Obama exemplary, since, unlike President...