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Activists from across Asia explain how the EU’s free trade agenda affects them: (3) Labour rights in the Philippines
November 2010

In the third of a series of interviews with civil society activists from Asia we hear about the damaging impacts of free trade agreements on labour rights in the Philippines.

Norma Rae Would Be Proud
October 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

While intellectuals debate whether Russia has a civil society, union leaders created an organization independent of government control with thousands of members.

Ed Miliband needs trade unions
October 2010
Hilary Wainwright

To create real political change, the new Labour leader must look beyond his party to the unions that helped him win power.

Activists from across Asia explain how the EU’s free trade agenda affects them: (1) Indonesia and China
October 2010

At the Asia Europe People’s Forum in Brussels we interviewed some civil society activists from across Asia, to find out more about the damaging impacts of free trade agreements on the everyday lives of people in their countries.

Public spending, public control
May 2009
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!
March 2009
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
February 2009
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
February 2009
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
December 2008
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
October 2008
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...

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