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    The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labour to capital.

     

    Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which
    threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and
    the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act
    now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise...

    This declaration is the outcome of an international conference on alternatives and transformation paths to overcome the regime of crisis-capitalism, that took place in Brussels in October 2009. Organised by The Transnational Institute, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and World Forum for Alternatives...

    Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work. A bolder initiative is required at the United Nations level, moving from recommendations...

    Armin Thurnher

    People have been literally robbed over the last thirty years as money has moved up from labour to capital. And as people have less money to spend, we are constantly in a crisis of overproduction.

    The Euro zone crisis cannot be staved off. A building with the bad foundation cannot be durable.

    Sergio Marchi

    The WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (the "GATS")  has very much underpinned expansion without regulation and supervision, so the financial corporations had the guarantee that their expansion would be underpinned. But financial services are not the same as other services – they...

    The major causes of the economic and social crises are now being even more blatantly promoted by the EU - both within the multilateral WTO negotiations and bilateral and bi-regional FTA/EPA negotiations - as the fundamental solutions.

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    The multiple crises of the capitalist world economy give the left the unique opportunity to discuss and promote ideas of transformative steps and social alternatives. Which conditions for a post-capitalist world do already exist and what are our responses to this development?

    Why does the ideology of neoliberalism still exercise such influence in the Philippines despite the challenges it has faced from both the Asian and now global financial crisis?

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