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 [...]

“Today the structural crisis of capital provides the historical setting for a new revolutionary movement for social emancipation in which developments normally taking centuries would flit by like phantoms in decades or even a few years. But the force for such necessary, vital change remains with the people themselves, and rests on humanity’s willingness to [...]

The proletariat class, which is deprived of means of production, is forced to sell his labour as a commodity into the market to those bourgeois who grab them. In a capitalist society, those who produce commodity with the expense of their labour are deprived of appropriating the very product while those who are not at [...]

Paradoxes, Dangers, and Opportunities “The central contradiction of global capitalism is not that between capital and democracy as such. The concentration of capital allows for socialization of the means of production, and thus a solution to this problem. The main contradiction we face is deeper and The wide-ranging and challenging nature of the global “organic” [...]

The future of the dollar is in jeopardy. The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of the main reserve currency any longer. We need a new currency system. by futureofdollar.com Global Research, February 18, 2010 futureofdollar.com – 2010-02-17 The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of the [...]

“Those who believe that the 2008-2009 crisis has been left behind could have a painful awakening. This crisis is not the same as previous ones and the capitalism of our days is dragging too heavy a combination of exploitation, inequality, speculation and aggression to the environment that is making such a recovery in economic, social [...]

This study, from Nagarik Mancha and NESPON, outlines the causes behind the closure of tea gardens in North Bengal, the demand of workers from the ground, the extent of implementation of schemes like NREGA and the role of NGO’s, and the functioning of Operative Management Committees (OMC) which are often glorified as outstanding workers’ initiatives. [...]

“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 essential insight of Che [...]