Civilization crisis, limits of the planet, inequality, assaults to democracy, permanent war state and people in resistance. There is no time Other than the one that has touched us. Joan Manuel Serrat Crisis of the hegemonic civilizational pattern We are experiencing...
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Will the G20 save the world? | by Peter Wahl
The financial crisis, which is haunting the industrialised countries – with heavy effects on the entire world – served as a catalyst for the emergence of the G20 as the ‘premier forum for economic cooperation’, as the G20 defined themselves in their mandate.But the...
Rethinking Marxism | by Michael Burawoy
What should be our orientation to MarxisM today? The most common response is to bury it. Marxism, as Talcott Parsons used to say, was a theory whose significance was wholly confined to the 19th century – a version of 19th century utilitarianism of no relevance to the...
Whose Terrain?
By Jeremy Cronin, SACP deputy general secretary The mainstream press today has made much of Cronin’s comments as anti-Vavi statements with regards to the Civil Society Conference convened by COSATU recently. Below, read what Cronin had to say in Umzebenzi Online and...


