Thu 11, June 2009 @ 23:58
It's officlal. The World Health Organisation has declared
the swine flu outbreak as a pandemic. Clare Heath explores the role
of globalisation and capitalism in the new strain and its future
spread.
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Wed 25, March 2009 @ 00:09
The G20 meeting in the UK next week brings together the leaders
of countries that account for 80% of the world economy. They are
contemplating the fate of their capitalist economy as it falls into
the abyss.
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Tue 02, December 2008 @ 17:38
Mike Davis is a professor of history at the University of
California, and a leading Marxist in the US. His latest collection
of essays, mainly collected from Socialist Review, covers a wide
range of subjects: Inuit protestors in Greenland, the US’s attempts
at military global domination, Soviet fighters against fascism,
cotton workers’ strikes in the 1930s and a history of early
terrorism.
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Mon 24, November 2008 @ 11:33
Last week PR London Branch held an excellent informative meeting
on Women & Globalisation.
We began with a
film by Paul Mason (Newsnight journalist) about China’s migrant
workers. In it one young woman told how she had severed the nerves
of two of her fingers in an industrial accident. She won
compensation but the company has refused to pay for the operation
she needs. Worse was to come as, in tears, she described how one of
the factory managers had told her that they would rather pay for a
hit man to kill her than give her the money for the operation!
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Sat 04, October 2008 @ 12:53
Steal food from the hungry in the global south, then use it to
create fuel to ferry obese car owners around in gas-guzzlers in the
global north. UN food specialist Jean Ziegler proclaimed this “a
crime against humanity” in May. It is hard to imagine a more
striking example of the madness of the market.
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Tue 27, May 2008 @ 22:58
Strong world economic growth has transformed the economies of many countries in the global south, with large scale industrialisation, a reduction in debt and a growing working class. But, Keith Harvey asks, have these developments really broken the chains of exploitation by the major imperialist powers and their mega-corporations?
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Sun 05, August 2007 @ 16:55
Against the background of uncertain prospects for the world economy, Clinton and the US ruling class must overcome their divisions. They must decide whether to attempt to hold onto their present global dominance or to concentrate their attention either on Europe or the Pacific rim, with the less ambitious aim of being the strongest of all the regional powers in the new millenium.
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Sun 20, May 2007 @ 15:22
WHEN THE FRENCH tricolour was replaced by the Stars and Stripes in Indochina in 1954, the US military 'advisers' and the Diem regime in South Vietnam had good reasons to feel confident, write Keith Harvey and Mark Hoskisson...
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Sun 07, January 2007 @ 17:54
Between 10-14 September 146 member countries of the World Trade Organisation will meet in Cancun, Mexico. Targets are being set for a further opening of third world markets to exploitation. Keith Harvey looks at the plans
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Thu 30, November 2006 @ 18:02
The threats to another American century
For the Bush administration, the only threat to globalisation comes from those forces who oppose further liberalisation of trade and investment. Among these can be counted anti-capitalist activists, critical NGOs and Third World governments who remain suspicious of further opening up their countries’ markets to Triad multinationals.
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Wed 29, November 2006 @ 23:58
The informational revolution
Hardt and Negri write, ‘It has now become common to view the succession of economic paradigms since the Middle Ages in three distinct moments, each defined by the dominant sector of the economy:
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Mon 09, October 2006 @ 18:47
The Twentieth Century ends in economic crisis and deepening political instability the League for a Revolutionary Communist International analyses the period ahead and the tasks facing the working class.
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Thu 14, September 2006 @ 11:43
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Tue 05, September 2006 @ 01:11
Although Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt present Empire as principally a post-modernist study in international relations, the book offers a comprehensive, if obscure, account of the economics, politics and culture of the present era of global capitalism. Indeed, its scope is so comprehensive that it could accurately, if ironically, be labeled a post-modernist meta-narrative. Since it discusses the origins, evolution of, and resistance to, a system of exploitation and oppression, it is of natural interest to Marxists; all the more so given its unexpected resonance within the anti-capitalist movement.
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Sun 03, September 2006 @ 17:09
A collective sigh of relief from EU, US and Japanese governments could be heard last week. The reason was that the so-called Doha Round of international trade talks was still on track after into-the-night negotiations reached a series of compromises to produce an agreed text and keep the process alive.
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Sun 27, August 2006 @ 20:23
The G8 summit in July in Gleneagles, Scotland is the second to be hosted by Tony Blair. In Birmingham in 1998 the summit was surrounded by 70,000 people who formed a human chain around the city centre to press their demands for debt cancellation. Blair decided to relocate the main meeting elsewhere at the last minute.
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Wed 09, August 2006 @ 15:17
In the Nineties, multinational corporations vied with each other to take over the industries and services of much of the world. Commentators coined the term "globalisation" to describe their domination. Keith H explores the roots of this phase of imperialism in the growing contradictions of US capitalism in the decades after the Second World War and concludes that its days are already numbered.
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