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“It won’t be possible to exit the crisis unless and untill a radical Left dares to take political initiative and build anti-oligarchic, alternative historic blocs. Either Europe will be Left, or there will be no Europe. The European electoral Left rallying as it is now to the idea that “Europe as [...]
- Managing the Euro: Mission Impossible!
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RECESSION FORCING COLOMBIA VENEZUELA PEACE
"The US-Colombian axis was guaranteed to be maintained and to both—continue to be strong. And that's actually one of the factors in ruining the relationship towards Venezuela and towards the other neighbors of Colombia, that the US is constantly pushing Colombia to take a harder line against Chávez or against Correa. But Colombia internally. It's also very interested in strengthening ...
Shock Doctrine and Popular Resistance
The Greek Laboratory:
"There is a shadow of something colossal and menacing that even now is beginning to fall across the land. Call it the shadow of an oligarchy, if you will; it is the nearest I dare approximate it. What its nature may be I refuse to imagine. But what I wanted to say was this: You are in a ...
Trends to Barbarism and Prospects for Socialism
In ancient society ‘barbarism’ and its carriers ‘the barbarians’ were envisioned as threats by outside invaders from outlying regions descending on Rome or Athens. In contemporary societies, the barbarians came from within, among the elite of society, intent on imposing a new order which destroys the social fabric and productive base of society, converting stable livelihoods into insecure deteriorating conditions of daily life. The key ...
Trades Unions
There are plenty of symptoms that the working class of this country is awakening to the consciousness that it has for some time been moving in the wrong groove ; that the present movements for higher wages and shorter hours exclusively, keep it in a vicious circle out of which there is no issue; that it is not the lowness of ...
Social Classes — Necessary and Superfluous
The capitalist class had also become unable to manage the immense productive system of this country; that they on the one hand expanded production so as to periodically flood all the markets with produce, and on the other became more and more incapable of holding their own against foreign competition. Thus we find that, not only can we manage very well ...
The death of the postindustrial dream
Remember postindustrialism? Not long ago, this catchphrase was supposed to define America’s future: no more grubby hard industries, just a clean bright world of services and high technology. Its most succinct formulation is as follows: Manufacturing is old hat and America is moving on to better things.
By Ian Fletcher | Online Journal | July 29, 2010
This ...
Do Spreading Auto Strikes Mean Hope for a Workers’ Movement in China?
A flurry of strikes in Honda parts plants in China has produced the longest and most significant work stoppages and wage gains for workers there in recent years. Is this the opening wave in a tide of resistance that will lead to a transformation of work and labor in China? The beginning of the end of the global race to the ...
The rising power of the Chinese worker
In China’s factories, pay and protest are on the rise. That is good for China, and for the world economy
The Economist, Jul 29th 2010
CHEAP labour has built China’s economic miracle. Its manufacturing workers toil for a small fraction of the cost of their American or German competitors. At the bottom of the heap, a “floating population” of about 130m ...
Where to Begin: New Perspectives on Chinese Labor
Foreign direct investment coming to China created a laboratory for the reform of labor practices, and the politically sensitive reforms to China’s domestic or state-owned enterprise sector could commence as this sector adopted the labor contracts and workplace norms found in the foreign-invested sector. Not that the process went smoothly, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership managed to prevent ...
Workers organizing Independent Unions, The Main Trend Today in Egypt
Egypt's State-Controlled Unions Under Pressure
With the authoritarian state excerting such efforts to manipulate and control the unions - by suspending all resemblance of internal democracy - the line between economic and political demands grows very thin. Any worker raising his or her voice against bad working conditions of low salaries is also engaging in a political act. And ...