Miembros del comité Combine de Lucas Aerospace en la escalinata de Wortley Hall en 1977 / Photo credit Red Pepper... Read more
after the recession [..] these questions [...] of an alternative to run a business came into their own Laura Flanders, host of a The Laura Flanders Show, shares stories of this new economy and how the Next System Project is seeking to analyse and learn from these experiences in order to put forward systemic alternative policies that can deliver a more just and sustainable society.
London anti-austerity march / Photo credit FlickrDos palabras se han convertido en mantras en el balbuceo postelectoral: ‘miedo’ y ‘aspiración’, a veces en contraposición a ‘esperanza’ e ‘igualdad’ respectivamente. Sería útil examinar las dos palabras. Necesitamos reflexionar en los meses venideros en un lenguaje que nos ayude a expresar lo que tenemos entre manos. Se sembraba en efecto mucho... Read more
For the past 15 years, Russia’s labor unions have made sporadic efforts to form a unified organization, but they have had little success. One of the main reasons for this was that the leaders of rival unions were too proud of their independence and too suspicious of one another to join forces at the national level.... Read more
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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.... Read more
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. Each day the team met to compare notes and parse out the major themes of the this years Forum.... Read more
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 both national and global economy.... Read more
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 India.... Read more
