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Cuba Undertakes Reforms in Midst of Economic Crisis
Roger Burbach

The long food queues in Cuba are still causing frustration, but the open process Raul Castro is following to resolve these issues heralds a new path to socialism in the 21st century.

La crise, et après? Agir pour la reprise, inventer un nouveau modèle (Video)
Susan George
 Jean-Michel Baylet, Olivier Dartignolles, Pierre Moscovici, Vincent Peillon, Thomas Philippon

Séance plénière de l'université d'été de Parti Socialiste. Animé por Laurent Fabius.

The virtues of deglobalisation
Walden Bello

The Economist has attributed the term "deglobalisation" to Walden Bello. Whilst the magazine considers the term a negative one, Bello argues that it is fast becoming a reality and offers a paradigm for escaping the neoliberal straitjacket.

Wishful Thinking Won’t Solve the Crisis
Boris Kagarlitsky

The more the authorities refuse to change the system, preferring stop-gap measures, the more they will be caught in a downward spiral and the more they will lose control of their policies — and the economy as well.

No Bernie Madoff for the most vulnerable to blame
Saul Landau

Amidst interminable “reporting” on the “poor” victims of Ponzi maven Bernie Madoff -- would anyone care if people had blown $65 billion trying to get richer in Las Vegas? An alarming July 5 NY Times headline informs: “Safety Net Is Fraying for the Very Poor.”

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Confessions of Cassandra
Boris Kagarlitsky

The change of technological cycles, exhaustion of resources and market saturation, class struggle and even growing grassroots wariness of propaganda will lead to change, even it is only short-term.

No Consensus on the Washington Consensus
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 ending in the development arena.

U.N. General Assembly president urges rich countries to better address the economic crisis
Nick Buxton

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, the elected president of the United Nations General Assembly, d'Escoto has touched a raw nerve among the world's most powerful nations.

Why is the UN ignoring the financial crisis?
Nick Buxton
UN conference was convened to find new ways of dealing with the global financial and economic crises and give voice to those most affected by them. But the rich countries have opposed any real change, and the result is an anemic UN document.
UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development
TNI

Spearheaded by the current President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D´Escoto Brockmann, the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development took place from June 24-26, 2009.

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