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    The War on Colombia’s Poor
    January 2012
    Ross Eventon

    The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

    Eric Holt-Giménez: What's wrong with the industrial food system and the challenges facing food justice movements
    January 2012
    Eric Holt-Giménez

    In the industrial or corporate food regime, hunger is a staple commodity. Agrarian and food justice movements have come a long way in building an alternative system, but there are still many challenges.

    Olivier de Schutter: What is agroecological farming? And why should it be upscaled?
    January 2012
    Olivier de Schutter

    The food crisis and the environmental crisis are two sides of one coin, so any solution to hunger and food security must also be sustainable and contribute to ecological integrity.

     

    Occupy Wall Street: New politics and new milestones
    November 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    The occupy movement has achieved an incredible and much-needed shake-up of a long-standing political stasis in the US and elsewhere, but it is crucial now to highlight the connection between failed foreign policy, bloated military spending and illegal wars, and the economic crisis at home.

    Land, conflict and the challenge of pro-poor peace-building
    October 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    There is a lot of contention over approaches to land reform policy, in terms of how to involve the state, the market and communities; but what matters most for a socio-economically and politically sustainable solution, is that the policy is genuinely 'pro-poor'.

    A Coup D'Etat in the European Union?
    October 2011
    Susan George

    European Union workers’ pretentions to better pay and working conditions, shorter working lives, munificent retirement benefits, long holidays and time off for this and that have got to be brought under control!  Enough is enough! 

    As COP17 approaches: Dirty Durban’s manual for climate greenwashing
    August 2011
    Patrick Bond

    Will the host city for the November-December world climate summit, COP17, clean up its act? The launch of Durban's strategy, Towards a Low Carbon City suggests the new municipal leaders are climate greenwashers, disguising high-carbon economic policies with pleasing rhetoric.

    Global Inequalities, Alternative Regionalism and the Future of Socialism
    August 2011
    Tom Reifer

    This paper examines global inequalities and the future of capitalism and socialism through an investigation of the oligarchic wealth on which the current global order is based and also looks at growing challenges to these social foundations of the present global system.

    Shining and starving
    August 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    Under neoliberalism, income and regional disparities have got bloated to a point where the country's rich and the poor live in two separate worlds.

    Spain: The 'Indignant’ and the Paris Commune
    June 2011
    Atilio Boron

    One hundred and forty years after the Paris Commune similar demands for democratic change resonate strongly in Spain. Recent mass mobilisations show the Spanish people have had enough of politics that serve only the interests of a few, while public interests are subordinated to the profit...

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