transnational corporations

As authoritarian China loses luster, TNCs flirt with democratic Indonesia and Brazil

June 2011

Make way China! Here come Brazil and Indonesia as new kids on the block for transnational corporations' investments in their global search for cheap labour and social stability.

India Inc's Silence Deafening

July 2010

Praful Bidwai

The injustice of the Bhopal disaster in India continues, as corporations responsible for the deaths of innocent people and the destruction of the environment have been let off the hook yet again

Istanbul 2010 European Social Forum: Call for a Just Transition

July 2010

This year's ESF in Istanbul saw social movements from across the continent come together together in the urgent call for a socially and environmentally just transition in the economy.

Interview on France Culture - Alter-Globalisation for Susan George

June 2010

Susan George

Susan spoke at length on France Culture talking about the converging economic, social and environmental crises of globalization, and what alternatives exist to the current state of affairs. Susan's new book Their Crisis, Our Solutions has just been published in French (...

When corporations capture the state: corporate lobbying and democracy

May 2010

Praful Bidwai

Washington-style practices of corporate lobbying have crept up on New Delhi politics, subverting the policy-making process to meet the profit imperatives of private corporations. The new trend of corporate lobbying in India presents a real and serious threat to democracy.

Profiting without producing: the financial crisis as an opportunity to create a world solidarity economy

March 2009

Marcos Arruda

Increasingly centered on and subordinated to the financial sector, the global economy, based on the myth of "infinite" growth and resource exploitation, has come up against serious limits. New forms of development which put people at the center, rather than profit, urgently need addressing....