World Economy
World economy: Warnings of a “currency war”
IMF summit fiasco
Comment & Analysis
World Economy
“Millenium Goals”: Hunger for profits fuels starvation
In about three weeks, a Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations will be held in New York to review progress in reaching the Milennium Development Goals (MDGs).
World Economy
Economy Slowing: Double Dip Fears Grow
In the past few weeks there’s been a noticeable shift in tone in the business pages and journals. Their confidence in the so-called “recovery” has faded, and has been replaced by anxiety.
World Economy
“Charity”: Let them eat cake, not the crumbs off the table …
Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development in philanthropy” for many decades.
World Economy
Capitalism has failed us: The case for socialism
Wages have been slashed, unemployment has exploded and our public services have been cut savagely as the economic crisis developed in Ireland. All of this is the result of the policies of the right-wing government […]
World Economy
World Capitalist Crisis: Class struggles on the rise
This week, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) is holding its annual Summer School, in Belgium.
Comment & Analysis
ESF Istanbul 2010: Another Social Forum was possible
Support for European-wide protest on 29 September
World Economy
G20: From stimulus to austerity at dizzying speed
The G20 meeting in Toronto of the leaders of the main capitalist governments of the world demonstrated a complete incapacity to solve the huge problems that confront us, particularly those hardest-hit – the poor and […]
Comment & Analysis
People’s Alternative Summit in Madrid – Cumbre Alternativa de los Pueblos
Counter-summit to meeting of European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders discusses alternatives to the current crisis.
World Economy
Banks use microloans to fleece poor
Another way for the banks and finance institutions to earn a quick buck.