Publications by Public Services & Democracy

  • Is Congress worth running for?
    April 2010
    Walden Bello

    For the most part, conservative interests still rule the Philippines' Congress, but it is not at all hopeless as a platform for change.

  • Lenin’s Loss Is Stalin’s Gain
    April 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The dumbing-down of the masses is the primary achievement of the last two decades of so-called "reform” in Russia. Society has changed radically, and the mechanism by which cultural identity is formed has been seriously undermined, if not completely destroyed.

  • A perfect social storm
    April 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The world is changing before our eyes, but the underlying causes are poorly understood. The sudden recent collapse of the political regime in Kyrgyzstan is a case in point.

  • This is managed democracy
    April 2010
    Mike Marqusee

    Given the actual consensus among the party leaders of the three main political parties in Britain, it was amazing to see how many differences they managed to manufacture during last week's televised debate.

  • Receding Right
    April 2010
    Praful Bidwai

    India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is in decline, its ideology is in retreat and it is unable to enthuse the Hindu middle class. Now is the time to reassert secularism.

  • Communitarian socialism in Bolivia
    April 2010
    Roger Burbach

    What does Morales' promise for a "communitarian socialism" amount to?

  • The left lacuna
    April 2010
    Mike Marqusee

    Although there will be left candidates and groups on the ballot in many constituencies in the coming British general election, there will be no single, widely-recognised, nationwide, left alternative. That is a tragedy from which no one can take comfort.

  • Cameron's 'big society' is a toy town
    April 2010

    Britain's Conservative Party plans to cut the power of the state whilst doing nothing to give people control over big business, where inequality breeds.

  • UK election: democracy and inequality
    April 2010
    Mike Marqusee

    The media frenzy and the ferocity of political competition in the coming general election in Britain will be in inverse proportion to the enthusiasm of the voters, who are being offered little in the way of real political choice.

  • Silicon Valley’s Time Is Over
    April 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The Russian government's modernization plans are outdated and mis-directed.