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Events
Tax Justice seminar
21/05/2008
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Linking Alternatives 3
13/05/2008
Lima, Peru

The future and poverty reduction
13/05/2008
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Can the free-market stop climate change?
08/05/2008
London, UK

Humans & Habitats: rethinking rights in an age of climate change
26/04/2008
London, UK

Linking Alternatives 3

The third Linking Alternatives encounter will be held from 13-16 May in Lima, Peru, sponsored by various social movements and non-governmental organizations in Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The encounter will coincide with the Fifth Summit of Heads of State and Government of LAC and the EU, and will create opportunities for critical analysis of relationships between the EU and LAC.

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Features

Examining relationships between European Union policies and migratory pressures

Instead of relying on the border police, the EU should assess the effects of its own policies on the poor, migrant-sending countries. Unless the policies that perpetuate the conditions for poverty and injustice are changed, the reasons for migration will remain, argues Susan George.

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UNGASS - 10 years review

To mark the occasion of the start of a year-long review of UN drugs policy, as set out in the political declaration and action plans of the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs in 1998, TNI has launched a new website with critical background on the key issues at stake.

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European economic policies from a civil society perspective

This report puts forward a critical civil society outlook on the EU’s 2007/2013 Financial Perspectives. Written by a Europe-wide civil society network it guarantees full expertise on the different topics and issues listed in the Multiannual Financial Framework's headings.

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Challenges and dilemmas of the public intellectual

Truth is not just there, it is made real and ratified by action, but although to realize it and bring about a more just order one needs power, the truth cannot be allowed to be ensnared by power in the process. This is the role of public intellectual: to point out truths that are not convenient from the point of view of one’s politics.


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  News

Vive la revolution!

The issues raised by the May 1968 upheavals in France and elsewhere about the iniquities of capitalism and the need for a just alternative have not gone away.


The Left's prospect is looking up

Any remedies introduced by the newly elected right-wing governments in Europe will not halt the unprecedented crisis of neoliberalism, while the changes introduced by the Left, and not only in Latin America, have more durable prospects.


Latin America needs a new drug policy approach

TNI's Martin Jelsma participated in the inaugural meeting of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy which revealed growing political support for alternative global drug policies on the continent.


In the shadow of debt

The 25 year long stagnation of the Philippine economy is the consequence of the government’s reduced capacity to invest - as it prioritises debt repayments, and of the loss of revenues due to trade liberalisation.


A defeated Left tries to recompose

In Italy, the whole left spectrum from communists to greens has lost political representation in the space of one election. What are the lessons that can be learnt from this defeat and how can the left rise again, asks Paolo Gerbaudo


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Publications
We the Peoples of Europe
Susan George

Iran in the crosshairs
Phyllis Bennis and the Iran team at the Institute for Policy Studies

China's New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective
Edited by Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji

 
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