YOUNG people, more than anybody, are interested in the future. Until very recently, there was discussion as to the kind of society in which we might live. Today the discussion is about whether human society will survive. These are not dramatic sentences. One has to get used to real facts. The last thing that human [...]

Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition by David Harvey The historical geography of capitalist development is at a key inflexion point in which the geographical configurations of power are rapidly shifting at the very moment when the temporal dynamic is facing very serious constraints.  Three-percent compound annual growth (generally considered the minimum satisfactory growth rate for [...]

Analysis of Classes in India: A Preliminary Note on the Industrial Bourgeoisie and Middle Class Mao’s analysis had identified a tiny proletariat in China, which, according to him, would be the leading force in the revolution. In contemporary India, in sharp contrast to China, the proletariat is significantly larger, not only in absolute terms but [...]

NEWS arriving from the Danish capital paints a picture of chaos. After planning an event in which around 40,000 people were to participate, the hosts have no way of keeping their promise. Evo, who was the first of the ALBA presidents to arrive there, expressed certain profound truths emanating from the millenary culture of his [...]

The recent revival of industrial growth in India does not seem sustainable as factors that have slowed down industry for long are still at work. A worker sprays water on fabric during a power cut in a dyeing unit at the SIPCOT Industrial Estate at Perundurai in Coimbatore. Fabric has to be kept wet until power [...]

World Federation of Trade UNIONS (W.F.T.U.) Announcement to the International Trade Union Youth Conference Lima, Peru – November 18-20, 2009 The organizing committee, the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP) and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) call upon all affiliated and frieldy organizations to participate in this 1st International Trade Union Youth [...]

Over the last quarter century, the unionized workforce has changed dramatically, according to a November 2009 report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008 [see www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/changing-face-of-labor]. In 2008, union workers reflected trends in the workforce as a whole toward a greater share of women, Latinos, Asian  Pacific Americans, [...]

This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot. Today the capitalist economies of the world are in deep trouble. Some economists have theorized that the linkages between the United States and the rest of the world had been weakened [...]

20.11.09 Interview with Michael D. Yates: The ABCs of the Economic Crisis by Allen Ruff Allen Ruff: What do working people need to know about this current economic crisis? Michael D. Yates: The first thing you need to know is that these kinds of crisis are built into the economic system.   There’s really I don’t [...]

“letter from Cambodia” and entitled “Shopping for Sweat New Orleans An article by Ken Silverstein in Harper’s Magazine in the January 2010 issue labeled a “letter from Cambodia” and entitled “Shopping for Sweat:  The Human Cost of a Two-Dollar T-shirt” caught by eye immediately because of the controversy around Jeff Ballinger’s critique on the infinitesimally [...]