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- Socialism: The Goal, The Paths, and the Compass
“A process of producing rich human beings with confidence and dignity, both the people and the party will be inoculated against the infection that can prevent us from reaching the socialist goal. That won’t be achieved, however, by a one-sided focus upon developing productive forces. In short, we should never forget the [...]
- Socialism: The Goal, The Paths, and the Compass
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- February 2010 (46)
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Global Capitalism and the Emergence of Transnational Elites
World Institute for Development Economic Research
United Nations University UNU-WIDER project on The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Working Paper No. 2010/02
Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational Elites
By William I. Robinson* January 2010
Abstract
The class and social structure of developing nations has undergone profound transformation in recent decades as each nation has ...
Rising Tide of Workers struggle Across Europe
Europe
Greece comes to standstill as citizens focus anger on EU
Greece came to a standstill on Wednesday as millions of workers, both public and private, stayed away from work in protest at the government's austerity programme and anger at the European Union's role in enforcing the cuts.
An estimated 2 million people downed tools, although according to both organisers and commentators, ...
Upsurge of Workers Protest in Egypt
Asia
The Solidarity Center Press Release:
Increasing number of strikes, protests in Egypt, Egyptian labor policies must change
Posted by the Center for Trade Union & Workers' Services http://www.ctuws.com/Default.aspx?item=423
Today in Egypt, thousands of workers are taking to the streets in strikes and sit-ins around wages, working conditions, demanding their rights for freedom of association, right to organize ...
’21st century socialism should be socialism for human development’
"We have to go back to Marx’s premise and goal -- the concept of human development.It is no accident that the Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 with Frederick Engels, talked about how the free development of each depends upon the free development of all.
By free development, they meant the development of human potential and capacities. In Marx’s writings from 1844 ...
POSCO: Tribal Dispossession, Environmental Destruction and Imperialism
Orissa is the poorest State with an official estimate of 39.9 per cent of people living below the poverty line, yet in regard to proposed investment it stood at second position after Gujarat. According to Assocham Investment Meter, recorded investment proposals in Orissa reached Rs. 2,00,846 crore in 2009. The cause is the availability of rich mineral resources such ...
Exploring the Dialectic of the Bolivarian Revolution
There is a dialectic at work in Venezuela.The dialectical relationship between Chávez and the masses has driven the process within Venezuela forward so far; whether it continues, will depend on the initiatives of both sides. That means the necessity from the top and the bottom to struggle against the obstacles
Michael A. Lebowitz
Iain Bruce, The Real Venezuela: Making Socialism ...
U.N. Report Presents a Richer View of Poverty
What does it mean to be poor in 2010? In monetary terms, the number of people living below the official extreme-poverty threshold of $1.25 per day in developing nations has declined. In fact, according to the World Bank's benchmarks, the extreme poverty rate worldwide has tumbled from about 50 percent in 1981 to about 25 percent in 2005. So are we ...
Greek Economic Crisis (Cartoon)
Greek Economic Crisis
by Carlos Latuff
Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian cartoonist.
A wave of workers struggle across Europe
Europe's winter of discontent
Strikes threaten to cause paralysis as workers reject government attempts to cut spending and wages
By Sean O'Grady, Economics Editor
The Independent, Wednesday, 24 February 2010
A wave of industrial and social unrest is building across Europe as workers resist attempts by governments and private companies to impose austerity policies, drive down wages and rescue some nations from ...
Clashes erupt at Greek strike march
Clashes erupted after a group of youths attempted to storm a building [AFP]
Greek police have fired tear gas at a group of protesters at an anti-government march in Athens after they attempted to storm a university building.
The clashes occurred on Wednesday on the sidelines of a demonstration in the capital involving at least 20,000 people protesting government plans to ...