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United-States : Where is the help for the workers?

2 October 2009 - by Daniel Munevar

At the onset of the worst economic crisis in the global economy since the Great Depression, employment losses are starting to mount at a dramatic pace. According to the ILO (International Labour Organization) more than 50 million workers are (...)
International Trade Union Confederation denounces

Doing Business 2010: World Bank Discourages Extension of Social Protection

10 September 2009 - by ITUC-CSI

Brussels, 9 September 2009: Even though the World Bank has endorsed improved social safety nets to protect the millions of workers who have lost their jobs due to the global economic crisis, the latest edition of the Bank’s highest circulation (...)
Conference at the Socialism 2009 organized by the Center for Economic and Social Change, Chicago, July 20^th 2009.

The impact of the world crisis in Latin America

4 August 2009 - by Claudio Katz

Thank you for this invitation and congratulations for this conference In my opinion, the effect of the world crisis in Latin America pose different types of discussion. The immediate economic effect, the political effect and the social measures (...)
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 4)

The 1970s: Liberal ideology returned with a vengeance

25 June 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

The 1970s: Liberal ideology returned with a vengeance (Part 4) Liberal ideology returned with a vengeance in the 1970s, in response to the economic crisis in the main industrialised capitalist countries. The crisis marked the beginning of a (...)
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 3)

The 1930s to the 1970s: liberalism eclipsed Eric Toussaint

19 June 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

Although a strong influence throughout the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth century, liberal thinking was eclipsed for the long period that lasted from the middle of the 1930s to the end of the 1970s . Yet during the 1920s (...)
A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 2)

Neo-liberal ideology is a hard nut to crack

13 June 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

neo-liberal ideology has conquered so many of our collective representations that it has largely dominated political and economic thinking over the last three decades. Although it is currently questioned, it is still deeply embedded in the minds (...)
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 1)

Adam Smith is closer to Karl Marx than those showering praise on Smith today

12 June 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

In the following citations, we discover that what Adam Smith wrote in the 1770s is not so distant from what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would write 70 years later in the famous Communist Manifesto. According to Adam Smith: “The labour of a (...)
After the European Parliament elections

Let us act to eradicate capitalism and all forms of oppression

8 June 2009 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The partisans of capitalism, and among them, prominently, the EU leaders, have lost all credibility. For years now they have trampled on the rights of peoples while not wavering when it came to making decisions directly opposed to their (...)
Why it makes sense to be anti-capitalist

31 May 2009 - by Olivier Bonfond

“Man has always waged war . ” ; “Man is fundamentally selfish. ”;”Capitalism has always existed and always will exist “;”Despite its defects, the capitalist system is the lesser evil “;”Capitalism is the only model which has proven itself. All other (...)
Special interview with Eric Toussaint

The socialist project has been betrayed and must be reinvented in the 21^st century

8 April 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

As he assesses the international crisis and the proposals made by the Left to meet a fast deteriorating global situation, Eric Toussaint distinguishes between two very different kinds of Left that suggest different ways of of resolving the (...)
Capitalist Crisis and Alternatives

15 January 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

Download the presentation of Eric Toussaint on Capitalist Crises and alternatives, in Katmandou for a South Asian CADTM network meeting.
The interdependency of the capitalist crises

28 October 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

The explosion of the economic crisis, the financial crisis and the food crisis in 2007-2008 shows just how interdependent the economies of the world are. Resolving the situation calls for radical remidies. The economic and financial crisis. (...)
Which development facing poverty?

24 September 2008 - by Nicolás Angulo Sanchez

When we speak of human development and the reduction of poverty, we must not refer to the unleashed consumption of goods (from cars, computers, increasingly powerful cell phones down to an almost unlimited variety of any product), but to the (...)
The new Chinese capitalism

21 September 2008 - by Esther Vivas , Josep Maria Antentas

The recent Olympic Games have been a great showcase for the new ascendant Chinese capitalism. China has today been through a long process of capitalist restoration initiated three decades ago. The reforms began in 1978, and extended and (...)
Thousands demonstrate against neo liberal agenda and price hike in Pakistan

7 June 2008 - by Farooq Tariq

Over 3000 activists and supporters of Labour Party Pakistan took part in rally at Lahore against the ongoing neo liberal policies of present Pakistan People’s Party government. They were chanting slogans against the price hike, American (...)
From false to real solutions for climate change

22 May 2008 - by Patrick Bond

Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva’s ZNet commentary (December 13, 2007) also made this point: “The Kyoto Protocol totally avoided the material challenge of stopping activities that lead to higher emissions and the (...)
Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood

22 May 2008 - by Walden Bello

An apocalyptic mood has seized the highest levels of global capital as the global financial system continues to implode. This implosion is but the latest financial crisis to wrack global capitalism. Financial crises are inevitable since (...)
Someone must speak up for Kenyans

8 May 2008 - by KENGO

Kengo is a coordination of grass roots organizations in Kenya, which the CADTM international network collaborates with. Here is their call for a campaign of solidarity with Kenyans being illegally detained. Comrades, Hundreds of poor, sick (...)
The Proof Is in: Third-World Debt Is Erasable

27 March 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

Published in Le Monde and www.truthout.org Since August 2007, North American and European banks have been experiencing a very severe crisis, now poised to spread to the entire neo-liberal free-market system as a whole. The actual sum of asset (...)
Three Lessons for Latin America

Seven Myths About NAFTA

30 November 2003 - by Alejandro Nadal, Francisco Aguayo, Marcos Chávez

the Bush administration and international financial bodies insisted that the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) was the region’s best economic integration choice, as well as the solution to the development crisis in Latin American and (...)