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...
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Somalia: Failing Responses to a Failed State | by Hiba Zayadin
Somalis have once again found themselves fleeing starvation, drought, and conflict. Thousands of Somalis with washed-out ribs and blown-up empty bellies roam their country in search of aid. According to the UN, 10 million people are currently on the verge of...
Torture and Historical Memory | by Robert Pallitto
North Americans seem to believe that torture has no history here. It happened in medieval Europe, at the command of dictators in far-off places, or as part of leftist insurgencies. For the United States, torture is anathema to our way of life, violative of our...
Revolutionary Challenges in Tunisia and Egypt: Generations in Conflict | by Stuart Schaar
The great Syrian poet, Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) more than four decades ago called on a new Arab generation to break with their dictatorial, bankrupt, and corrupt leaders and their supporters. Qabbani, from his London exile, hoped that young people would transform the...
Why the Middle East Will Never be the Same Again? | by Robert Fisk
The Palestinians won’t get a state this week. But they will prove – if they get enough votes in the General Assembly and if Mahmoud Abbas does not succumb to his characteristic grovelling in the face of US-Israeli power – that they are worthy of statehood. And they...
“The Fantastic Success of Occupy Wall Street” | by Immanuel Wallerstein
The Occupy Wall Street movement - for now it is a movement - is the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968, whose direct descendant or continuation it is.Why it started in the United States when it did - and not three days,...
Declaration of the European Conference Against Austerity | by ECAA
This European conference meets not a moment too soon.The peoples of Europe face an unprecedented social, political and economic crisis.Our governments are implementing the most savage spending cuts designed to destroy all the social gains of the post-war period. These...
Dexia Krach: The start of a domino effect in the EU ? | by Eric Toussaint
In the early days of October 2011 the virtual bankruptcy of the Franco-Belgian bank Dexia is yet another sign of how deep is this crisis that brings governments to serve public money to private interests. Dexia’s krach shows that it is the private banks that are the...
Has the crisis peaked yet | by Eric Toussaint
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (6/7)In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint...
