socialism
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«Arab Spring» is Arab Socialism’s Fall By Wayne Madsen
The fall of autocratic regimes in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, which had more to do with skyrocketing unemployment and inflation than in a desire to «democratize,» gave the circling vultures of Western «pro-democracy» think tanks and foundations the opportunity to put stakes in the hearts of governing pan-Arab socialist political parties long… Continue reading
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Syria’s Uprising in Context By Stephen Gowans
Since the beginning of the unrest in Syria, “the government has said that while some protesters have legitimate grievances, the uprising is driven by militant Islamists with foreign backing.”This hardly squares with the view of Western state officials and media commentators who say that an authoritarian regime is killing its people and violently suppressing a… Continue reading
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Republican primaries: Fooling some of the people By Eric Walberg
As the primary race heats up for the Republicans, Eric Walberg looks at the “radical centre” Continue reading
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Marx, Keynes and China Today
China’s economic structure, because it allowed ‘a socially controlled rate of investment’ and a ‘somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment’, could utilise policy tools developed by Keynes but the US and European economies could not. Although Keynes explicitly wished to save capitalism it turned out that Western capitalism could not use his tools, but China’s ‘socialism… Continue reading
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OWS in a bind: Doesn’t want to mention the S-word By William Bowles
Although many on the established Left are claiming OWS as their own, latching on to the anti-capitalist theme that figures prominently, at least in some locations, it’s clear that the focus of the OWS ‘movement’ varies greatly from place to place. Thus where it all started, in downtown Manhattan, the focus is very much on… Continue reading
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The Violent Silence of a New Beginning By Slavoj Žižek
We should avoid the temptation of the narcissism of the lost cause. What new positive order should replace the old one the day after, when the sublime enthusiasm of the uprising is over? Continue reading
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Occupy The World! To the barricades comrades? By William Bowles
What an irony that the Left—led largely by middle class intellectuals—fails to see what has happened, trapped as it is in its own patronizing and nostalgic vision of the working class aka George ‘middle class’ Orwell’s ‘Road to Wigan Pier’. Continue reading
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Book Review: Cooperatives and Socialism in Cuba
This book arises from the urgent need for us to make a modest contribution to the healthy “birth” of the new Cuban cooperativism and its subsequent spread. Continue reading
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A Civil Society Strategy for Revitalizing the Left By Steve D'Arcy
What happened to the North American Left? Why is it that, even now, when capitalism seems so obviously unappealing, unsustainable and unfair, the Left cannot mount a more serious challenge to the Right or its grim austerity agenda? Continue reading
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Marxism has an ecological heart By Ash Pemberton
In the past two decades several scholars have gone back to the writings of Marx and other early socialists. They have found that humanity’s relation to the planet’s ecology was a key element to a Marxist analysis of political economy. Continue reading
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Global Research: The Debt Ceiling Crisis in America Selected Articles
The devil is always in the details. And Wall Street lobbyists always have such details tucked away in their briefcases to put in the hands of their favored congressmen and dedicated senators. And in this case they have the President, who has taken their advice as to whom to appoint as his cabinet to act… Continue reading
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Video: The Return of Socialism
On June 23, John Nichols, author of The “S” Word: : A Short History of an American Tradition … Socialism, joined Phil Gasper, author of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document in Madison, WI for an event to discuss the history of socialism in America and its increasing popularity… Continue reading
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Socialism Is Dead!' Long Live the Commons and Social Accounting! By Tom Walker
While not wanting to downplay either the potentially transformative role of shorter working time or its prospects as a transitional element to a post-capitalist society, there is an important aspect of this issue that both writers appear to have overlooked. The result of shorter working time, increased time at the disposal of the individual worker,… Continue reading
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Putting humans back into socialism By Federico Fuentes
The onset of the global economic crisis in mid 2008, symbolised by the collapse of some of Wall Street’s most iconic companies, led to soaring sales of Karl Marx’s seminal work Das Kapital, as many sought explanations to the tumultuous events unfolding. Although written more than 100 years ago, this devastating and insightful dissection of… Continue reading
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Book review by Konrad Read, “A New Vision of Socialist Transition and Development”
It is probably fair to say that revolutionary socialism does not come naturally to everyone. Some of the young and curious pick up a grimy, twenty-page manifesto in a second-hand bookstore and never look back, but for myself it was a long, gruelling process full of twists and hesitations. One of the last barriers to… Continue reading
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Book review by Konrad Read, "A New Vision of Socialist Transition and Development"
It is probably fair to say that revolutionary socialism does not come naturally to everyone. Some of the young and curious pick up a grimy, twenty-page manifesto in a second-hand bookstore and never look back, but for myself it was a long, gruelling process full of twists and hesitations. One of the last barriers to… Continue reading
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The Spectre of Barbarism and its Alternative Michael A. Lebowitz
When commentators stress signs of recovery, it is essential to remember that this pattern differs not at all from that of 1929 to 1933 – in other words, the period between the stock market crash and the bank failures – a period before much of the depression of the 1930s. At best, although capitalism itself… Continue reading
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Are we getting good Marx? I think not By William Bowles
I often wonder how Karl Marx would react were he to find himself here, right now? After all, he too lived through momentous and world-changing times, perhaps even more so than the changes we are experiencing, given that his was the world that gave birth to the rise of the Machine and capitalism as we… Continue reading
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Bolivia Rising: (Video) Part Three – Interview with Evo Morales about socialism and Bolivia today
Video: Bolivia’s indigenous people are rising up and reclaiming a new homeland. An exciting national revolution is unfolding in Bolivia today, with its indigenous peoples at its core. Continue reading
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Bolivia Rising: (Video) Part Two – Interview with Evo Morales about socialism and Bolivia today
Video: Bolivia’s indigenous people are rising up and reclaiming a new homeland. An exciting national revolution is unfolding in Bolivia today, with its indigenous peoples at its core. The movement to refound Bolivia is an inspiration to many around the world. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 