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    Venezuela's CANTV: What should a 21st century "socialist” telecommunications company look like?
    Daniel Chavez

    Venezuela's revolution has often been tied to the slogan “Socialism in the 21st Century.” What might that might mean concretely in changes under way in the renationalised state telecommunications company, CANTV?

    The modernization trap
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The peculiar form of capitalism that has developed in Russia is incompatible with modernization and democracy alike.

    A flu for all seasons
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    Swine flu is quite handy to politicians, who can use it to postpone elections, or justify a state of emergency, if needed.

    Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull, 2009)
    Hilary Wainwright

    Reclaim the State sets out on a journey from Brazil to Britain to discover how people are creating new, stronger forms of democracy. The book shows that the foundations for new political directions for deepening democracy already exist, and provides imaginative and practical tools for building...

    Water: a common good, public management, and alternatives
    TNI

    Water justice activists gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia in August 2008
    to envision just and sustainable models of water stewardship and to
    build alliances that will bring these visions to fruition. A compelling
    visual insight into a dynamic international movement building...

    The great capitulation
    Praful Bidwai

    Indians and Pakistanis have to develop a common, rational understanding of the partition story that is free of nationalist prejudice -- although Jaswant Singh makes little contribution to this.

    Why Obama will read the riot act to Arroyo
    TNI
     Walden Bello

    Reading Arroyo the riot act would not be a gesture of benevolence on
    the part of Washington. It is one that would serve the US’s current
    interests as Obama discerns them.

    Democracy-promotion: doctrine vs dialogue
    Mariano Aguirre
    George W Bush made democracy-support a central theme of his presidency. Barack Obama, by contrast, has downplayed it. Yet the latter's approach may achieve more effective results.
    Burma: Neither War Nor Peace
    Neither War nor Peace report cover

    Whilst a twenty year ceasefire still holds, there is unlikely to be peace and democracy in Burma without a political settlement that addresses ethnic minority needs and goals.

    "We are preparing a massive reception for Zelaya"
    TNI

    Honduras, 30th June 2009.- Exclusive interview with Rafael Alegría, leader of the National Field Worker's Center (CNTC by its Spanish initials), founder member of the Democratic Union and the farmers organization Vía Campesina; adviser to President Zelaya in recent years on agrarian issues....

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