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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Turkish Diary TEKEL RESISTANCE 24 February 2010, Wednesday Four labour unions confederations announced their joint decision to end the resistance in case the Tekel workers decide not to continue. The confederations consider the resistance as a success. A view from a recent demonstration in support of dismissed workers from Tekel. TekG?da-?? President Mustafa Türkel, the [...]

John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Aleix Bombila Interview by Aleix Bombila, for En Lucha (Spain), of John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, and author of Marx’s Ecology and The Ecological Revolution En Lucha: In your book Marx’s Ecology you argue that Marxism has a lot to offer to the ecologist movement.  What kind of [...]

“There is a fourth R of global capitalism. The very solution to the crisis that capital introduces — that restructuring which brings the emerging capitalist countries to the central committee — implies the right of the latter to be full members, i.e., to achieve levels of consumption and economic development equal to the present levels [...]