Comment & Analysis
G8 Rostock: Massive police mobilisation face summit blockaders
State repression will not stop peaceful anti-globalisation demonstrators
Comment & Analysis
Comment & Analysis
G8 Summit Rostock: Thousands of immigrants’ rights protesters defy police repression
Protesters plan to blockade meeting of war criminals and exploiters
Comment & Analysis
G8 Rostock: Mass anti-G8 2 June demonstration in Germany
For people watching the television news, the coverage of the anti-G8 protests has been dominated by reports of violent clashes between police and some protesters.
Comment & Analysis
G8 Rostock: End global poverty, global warming and wars!
Hundreds of thousands of G8 protesters will be in Germany demanding "poverty is made history", wars and occupations are ended, and that ‘climate change’ is reversed.
Comment & Analysis
G8 Rostock: Bosses’ representatives head for June summit
100,000s will protest their policies!
World Economy
World economy: Forever blowing bubbles? What is happening to the world economy?
Financial bubbles and the overaccumulation of capital
Comment & Analysis
Review: The Writing on the Wall – China and the West in the 21st Century by Will Hutton
An unmistakeable message from Will Hutton’s important book is that China is heading for revolution, although the author merely predicts serious ‘convulsions’.
World Economy
World Economy: Micro credits founder wins Nobel prize
Can poor loans system end poverty and hunger?
World Economy
World Economy: The wealth gap widens
Capitalism creates grotesque inequalities
Comment & Analysis
Review: Capitalism Unleashed by Andrew Glyn
Since the early 1980s, world capitalism has followed a trajectory based on globalisation and neo-liberal policies.