The G20, a forum constructed by the powerfully rich G8 countries, by drawing in the so-called emerging economies of China, India, Brazil and which also includes South Africa, met at the end of June to tackle the on-going global financial crisis and the threat of a...
financial crisis
U.S. labor in the crisis: Resistance or retreat?
THE ELECTION of Barack Obama last November seemed to promise a new era for organized labor. With Obama in the White House and a solid Democratic majority in Congress, it appeared that unions would finally be able to get action on their main legislative agenda—passage...
The world financial meltdown: What now for African women?
As the global economic crisis takes its toll on Africa’s fiscal revenues and household incomes, Hilary N. Ervin & Caroline Muthoni Muriithi fear that the continent’s achievements in human rights and development may be reversed, worsening the condition of women...
We are not short of alternatives and strategies
Source: Times Online/UK Robin Hahnel's ZSpace Page April 03, 2009 In The Times last week Hugo Rifkind threw down the gauntlet to demonstrators protesting at the G20 summit to "formulate a coherent argument" and "propose some sort of feasible alternative to the world...
A Failed System
The World Crisis of Capitalist Globalization and its Impact on China In referring in my title here to “A Failed System” I do not of course mean that capitalism as a system is in any sense at an end. Rather I mean by “failed system” a global economic and social order...
From infinite war to infinite crisis
Translated by Machetera, Scott Campbell, Christine Lewis Carroll and Manuel Talens March 25, 2009 -- Machetera/Tlaxcala Some thoughts on the current capitalist crisis, its probable “solutions” and the role that a socialist option might play in the present juncture....


