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Public spending, public control
Hilary Wainwright

Local experiments in public reform are more democratic and cost-effective than the government's centralised bailouts

Public service reform … but not as we know it!
Hilary Wainwright

The need for convincing alternatives to market-led politics is urgent, especially as the government continues to defer to the financial markets rather than to challenge them.

Asia: the coming fury
Walden Bello
With the sudden end of the export era, East Asia may be entering a period of radical protest and social revolution that went out of style when export-oriented industrialization became the fashion three decades ago, writes Walden Bello.

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Voices from the World Social Forum
TNI

The Networked Journalism Project, organised by TNI's Networked Politics, brought together a team of journalists from around the world to report on the World Social Forum.

The Coming Capitalist Consensus
Walden Bello
Economic and political elites are converging on Global Social Democracy as a solution to the current economic crisis. But we need more than social management, argues Walden Bello: we should aspire to paradigms of social organisation that aim for equality and participatory democratic control of...
Tata Motors move to Gujarat less than secular
Praful Bidwai

NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (IPS) - Tata Motors' decision to shift the production site of its ultra-cheap, iconic Nano car from communist-ruled West Bengal state to Gujarat -- scene of the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom -- has caused consternation and dismay among liberals and secular-minded people all over...

Development Redefined
John Cavanagh
 Robin Broad

Today, just as faith in deregulated markets has evaporated in the nightmare on Wall Street, so too is the long reign of market fundamentalism (or neoliberalism) ending in the development arena. And, a debate over the best route to development has returned.

Labor code as an instrument of social revolution
Boris Kagarlitsky
The Russian labour code, written to suit the interests of employers, has pushed workers to unite and oppose its draconian terms.

Recently Russian mass media have focused on labor movement. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Russian journalists are writing...

A Labor Code in Bad Need of Revision
Boris Kagarlitsky
There is growing realisation that it is better to renegotiate the pro-business Russian Labor Code than to face the consequences of spontaneous and uncontrollable strikes.

The labor movement has been making a lot of headlines lately. Workers at multinational companies were the first to...

Labor movement and civil society
TNI
 Boris Kagarltisky
The strike at the Ford factory in Vsevolozhsk has invigorated the labour movement, which could turn the struggle for the amendment of the Russian Labour code into the most important political issue of the year.

The confrontation between employees and administration of the “Ford” plant...

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