Global Economic Justice

Susan George: Leurs crises, nos solutions

July 2010
Susan George

La 'classe de Davos' constitue un monde où la finance détermine l'économique qui détermine le social. Il faut inverser l'ordre des priorités.

What South Africa Really Lost at the World Cup

June 2010
Patrick Bond

Underneath the corporate marketing of the Fifa World Cup being hosted in South Africa is a worrying picture of poverty and exclusion, corporate domination and simmering xenophobic nationalism.

Military victory, political loss

June 2010
Praful Bidwai

The Flotilla Massacre is not the first such event in history - in 1947 a similar aggression by the British state spurred the creation of Israel. Despite the injustice and outrage over the attack and the continuing blockade of Gaza, the signs that the tide of public opinion is turning suggest there is reason for hope.

Creating a Nation of Poor, Sick and Ignorant

June 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

A new bill has been passed in Russia that will extensively roll back Government funding of education, the arts and social services - by introducing per capita financing - that will punish smaller towns and downgrade quality in the larger ones.

India has learnt nothing from the Bhopal tragedy

June 2010
Praful Bidwai

With the June 7 Bhopal judgment, India has been reduced to a Fourth World country. This story of shame can only end if the government appeals against the judgment, gets proper criminal liability restored and seriously pursues the case against all the accused.

Responding to Land Grabbing and Promoting Responsible Investment in Agriculture

June 2010
Harold Liversage

Harold Liversage, the Land Tenure Adviser for the International Fund for Agricultural Development argues that responsible investment in agriculture is possible if voluntary guidelines are backed up by an empowered civil society.

Angola: Reinventing Pasts and Futures

June 2010
David Sogge

Today’s political economy in Angola resembles the colonial order of yesterday: a narrow state-based elite manages the economy to promote a development model that redistributes wealth upward and outward.

Video: Their Crises, Our Solutions, with Susan George

June 2010
Susan George

Susan George talks live at the annual TNI fellows meeting about her new book Their Crises, Our Solutions, on the banks, the economy and justice. 

Kentucky Fried Education: The Market Assault on Reason

June 2010
Tariq Ali

In April 2010, UK Middlesex University decided to close down Philosophy. Ever since, students and staff, and thousands of their supporters, have been battling to save it.

Interview on France Culture - Alter-Globalisation for Susan George

June 2010
Susan George

Susan spoke at length on France Culture talking about the converging economic, social and environmental crises of globalization, and what alternatives exist to the current state of affairs. Susan's new book Their Crisis, Our Solutions has just been published in French (Leurs Crises, Nos Solutions) and Spanish (Sui Crisis, Nuestra Soluciones), and is due out in English in September.