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UK: Feral Capitalism Hits The Streets By David Harvey
12 August 2011 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 535 “Nihilistic and feral teenagers” the Daily Mail called them: the crazy youths from all walks of life who raced around the streets mindlessly and desperately hurling bricks, stones and bottles at the cops while looting here and setting bonfires there, leading the authorities… Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Newslinks 24-25 July 2011
25 July 2011 — williambowles.info 25 July 2011 What’s New: Sleaze of the world Socialist Project Today at 09:00 Good riddance to bad rubbish. That’s what many in Britain are saying after the shutdown of the notorious tabloid News of the World following revelations about how low the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper sank in its drive… Continue reading
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From Copenhagen and Cancun to Bonn and Durban, Climate Meetings are Conferences of Polluters By Patrick Bond
Judging by what transpired at the global climate negotiations in the former West German capital, Bonn, it appears certain that in just over five months’ time, the South African port city of Durban will host a conference of climate procrastinators, the COP17 (Conference of Parties), dooming the Earth to the frying pan. Continue reading
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Why Recent Bad Economic News Means It’s Time for Working Less By Juliet Schor
More recession may also be the future of the countries enforcing these once-discredited policies, as weak demand across the region represses consumer demand, investor confidence, and government spending. Continue reading
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Gaza: A View From the Ground A South African Perspective By Patrick Bond
Here in Palestine, disgust expressed by civil society reformers about Barack Obama’s May 19 policy speech on the Middle East and North Africa confirms that political reconciliation between Washington and fast-rising Arab democrats is impossible. Continue reading
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Spain: The ‘Indignant’ and the Paris Commune By Atilio A. Boron
Perhaps it’s one of history’s surprises that the popular uprising surging through Spain today (and which is beginning to reverberate throughout the rest of Europe) was sparked on the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune, a heroic moment in which the fundamental demand was also that of democracy. Continue reading
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The Tunisian Revolution Did Not Come Out Of Nowhere
The Tunisian revolution has been the detonator of the wave of protests and uprisings which have spread across North Africa and the Middle East since January, 2011. Sparked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on December 17, 2010, the Tunisian revolution quickly spread from the towns in the central mining and agricultural regions of the… Continue reading
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Germany and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis: the Lessons of History By Hugo Radice
In the short term, forcing the repayment of debts through savage cuts in public expenditure is having exactly the consequences that Keynesian economics predicts: slashing public sector employment and incomes leads to a worsening of the public sector deficit, as tax revenues fall Continue reading
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Libya and the Danger of ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention By Matthew Brett
Events are rapidly unfolding in Libya and the surrounding region, and military intervention appears to be an increasing reality as the hours pass. Continue reading
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The World Social Forum and the Battle for COP17 By Vishwas Satgar
In a world plunged ever deeper into an uncivilized global capitalist condition, the World Social Forum (WSF) is a crucial beacon of hope. At its recent gathering in Dakar, Senegal the news of the unfolding democratic revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt electrified the spirit of optimism pervading the multiple axes of deliberation. Continue reading
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Revolution in the Arab World… TUNISIA… EGYPT… and Beyond
13 February, 2011 — Left Streamed Toronto, February 13, 2011. With Gilbert Achcar – Professor of Development Studies, University of London, author of The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder and The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. Moderated by Mary-Jo Nadeau – CAIA. Sponsored by: Centre for… Continue reading
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A European Strategy for the Left Michael Hudson
The global effects of the crisis have been made even worse by what is happening in Europe. For thirty years the contradictions of capitalism have been overcome with the help of an enormous accumulation of phantom rights to surplus value. The crisis has threatened to destroy them. The bourgeois governments have decided to preserve them… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 