Economic Crisis

The EU's new austerity treaty - Interview with Lukas Oberndorfer

February 2012

Despite the strong and growing resistance in Greece and other European countries to the direction of EU policy responses to the crisis, the process for this new treaty has unfolded with disquieting speed: initiated in November, an agreement was already reached by end of January among the EU25. This comes at the expense of stifling democratic debate and, indeed, shortcutting the normal consultative procedures in the treaty process through legal manoeuvres.

Europeanism from below

February 2012
Paolo Gerbaudo

Paolo Gerbaudo reports on the Routes of Europe conference in Florence, arguing that the Italian left must embrace the participatory democracy of the indignados to achieve political purchase.

Putin and Europe on the same crisis page

March 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

The
current wave of strikes across Europe are only a prelude to what will
come, as the ruling elite are not prepared to change their anti-crisis
policies that have merely supported the corporations that caused the
crisis.

Global governance priorities in an interdependent world - balancing the economic and the environmental crisis

March 2010
Susan George

The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labour to capital.

 

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity

February 2010

Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise society on a more egalitarian  basis.

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity

February 2010

This declaration is the outcome of an international conference on alternatives and transformation paths to overcome the regime of crisis-capitalism, that took place in Brussels in October 2009. Organised by The Transnational Institute, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and World Forum for Alternatives.

Default in Europe

December 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

The Euro zone crisis cannot be staved off. A building with the bad foundation cannot be durable.

This crisis will never end

December 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

Even if Russia manages to extricate itself from the economic crisis, the social disruptions that it has caused are here to stay.

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The World Crisis - and beyond

October 2009
Dot Keet

The multiple crises of the capitalist world economy give the left the unique opportunity to discuss and promote ideas of transformative steps and social alternatives. Which conditions for a post-capitalist world do already exist and what are our responses to this development?

G20 makes molehills out of mountains

October 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

Not knowing how to deal with it, the G20 leaders avoided discussing the crisis, which will come back to haunt us when a new wave of the crisis inevitably hits.