socialism
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Bolivia Rising: (Video) Part One – 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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Embedded processes are turning against Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
When the current revolutionary process took power then years ago, some must have foreseen that it was going to bring many contradictions upon itself since each revolutionary process brings with it, its own parallel counter-revolutionary process. Continue reading
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My Dad, me and Nature By William Bowles
Any socialist transformation of our economy must, through its very nature, be one that is in tune with the natural world. It must include the reinvention of skills and processes that capitalism has destroyed simply because they don’t make a profit. Continue reading
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Video: World at a Crossroads: Sydney in April
1 February, 2009 “World at a Crossroads” will be hosted by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the socialist youth organisation Resistance, and is sponsored by Green Left Weekly. For more information go to http://www.worldatacrossroads.org/ Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Time travelling or does Obama have any kind of deal let alone a new ‘New Deal’? By William Bowles
The only real triumph of capital (and a short-lived one at that) is the total erasure of the past as it was really lived, hence the objective is first to rediscover where we come from and to (re)learn and never forget the lessons of the past. Continue reading
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COHA: The Dynamic Debut of Raúl Castro
Picking up the broken pieces of storm-battered, but now oil-rich Cuba, and moving ahead, with mixed prospects Island slammed by monstrous storms, but turns down U.S. aid Reforming Cuba during an epoch when scarcity and low living standards no longer are inevitable Good news from the E.U. and Geneva Offshore oil bombshell Ever since the Continue reading
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Federico Fuentes: Bolivia: Unprecedented Alliance Defeats Right-Wing Assault
LA PAZ: After three months of intense class struggle, there can be no doubt that the U.S.-backed right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales has suffered three important defeats. The right’s offensive to topple Morales, which climaxed with the September 11-12 ‘civic coup’ attempt, has been decisively rolled back by the combined action Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 63
Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life October 30, 2008 www.killinghope.org Don’t tell my mother I work at the White House. She thinks I play the piano in a whore house. The Republican presidential campaign has tried to make a big issue of Barack Obama at one time Continue reading
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Let us speculate By William Bowles
28 October 2008 There’s an awful lot of speculation going on right now, from both the left and right about where the latest crisis of capital is headed, chief amongst them is the notion that this signals the end of the US Empire, that the so-called uni-polar world is over, that a new multi-polar world, Continue reading
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How about socialism for the rest of us By William Bowles
If it wasn’t so tragic for so many millions of ordinary working folk, it would be laughable to read the corporate press as it pees into its corporate pants. So now we’re reminded endlessly, that ‘we’ own a fair chunk of global finance capital, or at least what’s left of it. Continue reading
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Not fit for purpose? By William Bowles
25 April 20008 The word Socialism is unfortunately, much-discredited yet and still the idea lives on regardless, as events in the Southern Americas reveal. But what of us in the so-called developed world? Revolution I hear you cry? In the West? Not likely is it? In fact, both Marx and Lenin, when asked about revolution Continue reading
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The Red and the Green: Part Two – What kind of development?
If we are to deal with the threat to the planet’s biosphere, it should be obvious to all that there has to be both political and economic democracy if we are to stand even a chance of stabilising what we’ve totally buggered up. And judging by the concern people are expressing about what’s happening to Continue reading
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The Red and the Green: Part One – Economic Democracy By William Bowles
29 September 2007 If you’ve been reading the excellent cross-section of articles on Climate and Capitalism (‘Ecosocialism or Barbarism: There is no third way’) you will hopefully have come across the exchanges on the ‘Green versus Red’ issue. If you haven’t then it’s time you did. [1] In a nutshell, the argument goes like this:’Real Continue reading
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Crisis Capitalism By William Bowles
The problem for all of us lefties is not so much in understanding how capitalism actually works, this has been documented, one could say ad nauseum, but in how to apply that understanding to its overthrow. You would think that after 150 years we would by now have a better handle on things. Is it… Continue reading
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Book Review: ‘Haciendo posible lo imposible’ By William Bowles
I really like this book; firstly its straightforward language makes it accessible unlike the verbal diarrhoea that usually afflicts academic writing, especially on the ‘left’ with all its talk of paradigmatic this and the dialectics of that. Continue reading
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Putting Socialism on the Agenda By William Bowles
31 August 2006 The basis of government [is] wrongly confused with the sovereign [or people], whose minister it is …. It is simply and solely a commission, an employment, in which the rulers, mere officials of the sovereign [or people], exercise in their own name the power of which it makes them depositories. This power Continue reading
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Why I’m a socialist By William Bowles
It’s not exactly fashionable these days to call yourself a socialist (unless you live in South America). The idea, we are constantly being reminded, has been totally discredited by the collapse of the Soviet ‘Empire’. Politics is dead, capital triumphs, a reminder of the infamous phrase that ‘history is dead’. What is true is that… Continue reading
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Word Games By William Bowles
What might be generically termed as ‘red scares’ or to bring it up to date, the ‘global terror network’ have an extremely long pedigree, some five hundred years to be exact. In fact, the idea that there are secret networks with the objective of overthrowing the ‘established order’ can be traced back to the witch… Continue reading
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The snail on the (slippery) slope By William Bowles
I’m not too keen on doing end of the year summations but it strikes me that 2005 has surely been a watershed year for the entire planet. No doubt there are many of us who feel very pessimistic about the situation what with a recognition at long last, that the insane economic policies of an… Continue reading
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The Big Picture By William Bowles
It’s an interesting observation I think, that the great majority of ‘left/progressive’ Websites concentrate on the evil doings of the imperialists but aside from the more academically oriented sites, very few pose or investigate directions forward. It is after all, much easier to tear apart the policies and actions of the imperium and although exposing… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 