The door to 2°C is closing,but will we be “locked-in” ? The world is locking itself into an unsustainable energy future which would have far-reaching consequences, warns the International Energy Association (IEA) in its latest World Energy Outlook report released in...
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The EU Crisis – A Pocket Guide
The economic crisis that has shaken the world may have started in Wall Street but it has been made much worse by the actions of both the European institutions and European member states. Much of the so-called debt crisis was caused not by states spending too much, but...
A looming global recession | by CP Chandrasekhar
All recent economic indicators point almost unambiguously to a new global recession, one which threatens to be more severe and prolonged than the 2007 crisis. While the epicentre of this developing crisis is located in the metropolitan countries, specifically the EU...
Death of an Anti-Imperialist | by Yusuf Ansar
Muammar Gaddafi’s killing will prove to be more beneficial to western powers than Libyans EXACTLY 100 years ago, Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy began its invasion and subjugation of Libya. On 23 October 1911, Italian warships and land forces began the assault of...
Death of an Anti-Imperialist | by Yusuf Ansar
Muammar Gaddafi’s killing will prove to be more beneficial to western powers than Libyans EXACTLY 100 years ago, Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy began its invasion and subjugation of Libya. On 23 October 1911, Italian warships and land forces began the assault of...
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg | by Georg Adler, Peter Hudis, and Annalies Laschitza (editors)
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is the first volume in a projected 14-volume set, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, of all the extant writings of this great revolutionary socialist in English—all available newspaper articles and speeches, significant polemical and...
‘Sound Finance’ Imperilling Democracy | by EPW
What if debt deflation strikes, will the Eurozone’s financial elite still bay for sound finance? Finance capital’s imposition of fiscal austerity on both sides of the Atlantic – and this at a time when private consumption and investment are stagnating – is pushing the...
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...
Greece must default and quit the euro. The real debate is how | by Costas Lapavitsas
Greece is facing an economic and social disaster, the result of its so-called rescue by the "troika" of the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. Greece must change course to avoid a grim future for its people: it must default on its debt...



