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The drugs debate
The state of play in the last ten years within the EU and UN

Martin Jelsma
Repressive drugs policies have patently failed as drugs are now cheaper and more available, but legalisation doesn’t solve problems associated with the illegal drug economy either. So what are the principles and strategies for effective alternative policies?

 
Eau Yes! Drop by drop, water's going public
As water privatisation goes into reverse and increasing number of communities put water back under public control, a new TNI-supported website tracks the experiences and learning of newly public water utilities.
www.remunicipalisation.org
 

Who really destroyed African agriculture?
Walden Bello
Agrofuel production did not create, but only exacerbated the global food crisis that had been building up for years as a result of World Bank, IMF and WTO policies which encouraged the conversion of largely food-self-sufficient economies into chronic food importers.

 

The Rich and the Rest of Us
John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins
Politicians and their corporate backers have engineered the most colossal redistribution of wealth from the bottom up, from working people to a tiny global elite. We need to learn lessons from organised labour and other progressive social movements who reversed the first Gilded Age in the early 20th Century.
See also Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program
Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati

 


New book

Hijacking America: How the religious and secular right changed what Americans think
Susan George
George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal", right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating, thorough and often chilling account of the decades-long transformation of American society and political culture. Using the four "Ms" - money, media, marketing, management - but above all with a keen sense of mission, the American secular and religious right has made its "long march through the institutions" and changed the way Americans think.

 


Global outlook stories

US trying to "legalize" permanent occupation of Iraq; shifting discourse on Israel-Palestine
The Bush administration’s attempt to make permanent its occupation of Iraq through imposing a “bilateral” agreement on the Iraqi government is facing growing opposition in Iraq.

Now is the Time for Food Sovereignty
As the FAO met in Rome to discuss food prices, more than 100 organisations from five continents argued that just ecological solutions to the crisis would require ending corporate control of agriculture and supporting small-holder agriculture.

National project with a Stradivarius
Boris Kagarlitsky
The tensions that have arisen between Russia and Ukraine about the Eurovision song contest show how public entertainment has become a substitute for political participation

Messy but truly democratic
Praful Bidwai
Recent events in Pakistan give some tempered optimism that the country’s toxic tryst with the "Three A's" (Army, Allah and America) could come to a much-needed end, and that India-Pakistan reconciliation could become genuinely sustainable.
See also India-Pakistan peace survives

“Need for a new social alliance”
Interview with Susan George
Market ideology works to separate people based on competition. Our task is to bring people together and build alliances to defend our interests.

Fighting terrorism the wrong way
Praful Bidwai
The clamour in India for a war-like approach to fighting terrorism modelled on the US is incompatible with constitutional rights and will be counter-productive.

Embarrassment in the Kremlin
Boris Kagarlitsky
Moscow knows well what it wants from the international community: to be left alone for Russian businessmen to line their pockets and for Russian bureaucrats to rule the country as they wish.

Cell phones will liberate Cuba! Pigs will fly!
Saul Landau
Does Bush really think that allowing exports of mobile phones will mean that Cubans will call each other, share their common complaints, then assemble en masse at Raul Castro’s next rally and throw the phones at him?
See also Lying he knew was a sin


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El estado actual del debate sobre políticas de drogas: Tendencias de la última década en la Unión Europea y las Naciones Unidas
Martin Jelsma
Las políticas represivas contra las drogas han fracasado, pues sus precios están en mínimos históricos y su abastecimiento ha crecido, pero la legalización tampoco soluciona todos los problemas relacionados con la economía de las drogas ilegales. ¿Cuáles serían pues los principios y estrategias de las eficaces políticas alternativas?
 

Sí podemos
Susan George
Los excesos del desarrollismo están llevando a la humanidad al abismo, por lo que la nueva idea de progreso debe volver a recuperar la intención de antaño, de unir el progreso con la emancipación de los seres humanos, retomando el impulso del “sí podemos” que ha caracterizado a los movimientos transformadores de la izquierda durante décadas.

Véase también Más verde, menos hormigón

 


Nueva publicación

La nueva izquierda en América Latina
Daniel Chavez, César Rodríguez Garavito y Patrick Barrett (eds.)
Este libro es un esfuerzo colectivo por analizar el espectro de nuevas manifestaciones de la nueva izquierda latinoamericana y por examinar de manera sistemática –y en perspectiva comparada explícita– sus orígenes, características, dilemas y posibles trayectorias futuras.
Prólogo: Más allá de la colonialidad del saber
Juan Carlos Monedero

 


Perspectiva global

Tiempo de aliarse
Entrevista a Susan George
Es necesaria una alianza mundial entre activistas por los derechos humanos, ambientalistas y pequeñas empresas administradas éticamente para salvar al planeta de la autodestrucción.

El Che y la recreación del marxismo
Atilio A. Boron
Una de las mejores maneras de conmemorar el octogésimo aniversario del nacimiento del Che es recuperar una de sus facetas menos conocidas o, tal vez, la más olvidada: su papel como recreador del pensamiento marxista en clave latinoamericana.

Mentir sabía que era pecado
Saul Landau
Para los bushistas, la mentira constituía el método principal de comunicación con el público, la prensa y el Congreso.
Véase también ¡Los teléfonos celulares liberarán a Cuba! Cuando la rana críe pelo




New from our network

Carta del Presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, condenando la política de inmigración de la UE
Alianza Social Continental >>

Letter from the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, condemning EU immigration policy
Read more >>

Quem ameaça a soberania na Amazônia?
Ibase >>

Open letter protesting the European Commission’s defence of Telecom Italia versus the Bolivian people
Corporate Europe Observatory >>

The WTO’s Doha Round will not solve the global food crisis – Time for real solutions (PDF)
Seattle to Brussels network >>

External trade policy and the Lisbon Treaty: Enforcing liberalisation of European trade
Seattle to Brussels network >>

From the archives

How the other half dies: The real reasons for world hunger
Susan George
1986

Events

24 June
South Africa’s energy crisis
Amsterdam, Netherlands

In the media

Avec la plainte d'ATTAC, l'affaire du Nestlégate peut démarrer
Le Courier, 17 June

La Carta de Zaragoza, el legado de la Expo sobre uso sostenible del agua
Terra.es, 13 junio

Arroyo’s ‘failed leadership’ may kill agrarian reform programme
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 16 June

La prédominance du crétin
Coulisses de Bruxelles, 13 June

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