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Economic Crisis

Putin and Europe on the same crisis page
March 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

The
current wave of strikes across Europe are only a prelude to what will
come, as the ruling elite are not prepared to change their anti-crisis
policies that have merely supported the corporations that caused the
crisis.

Global governance priorities in an interdependent world - balancing the economic and the environmental crisis
March 2010
Susan George

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

 

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity
February 2010

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 society on a more...

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity
February 2010

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...

Default in Europe
December 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

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

This crisis will never end
December 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

Even if Russia manages to extricate itself from the economic crisis, the social disruptions that it has caused are here to stay.

The World Crisis - and beyond
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October 2009
Dot Keet

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?

G20 makes molehills out of mountains
October 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

Not knowing how to deal with it, the G20 leaders avoided discussing the crisis, which will come back to haunt us when a new wave of the crisis inevitably hits.

Everyone has his own problems
September 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

While the decline in industrial output will cost thousands their jobs, the Russian officials are more concerned with themselves and their friends.

Profiting without producing: the financial crisis as an opportunity to create a world solidarity economy
March 2009
Marcos Arruda

Increasingly centered on and subordinated to the financial sector, the global economy, based on the myth of "infinite" growth and resource exploitation, has come up against serious limits. New forms of development which put people at the center, rather than profit, urgently need addressing....

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