World Economy
World economy: Debt Relief – Empty words from Bush, Blair and G7
Finance Ministers and central bank chiefs from the seven richest imperialist states, the G7, meet in Washington at the start of October.
Comment & Analysis
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Review: Why Fahrenheit 9/11 makes Bush fume
It’s not surprising that Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 is storming the US. The film’s release coincides with Americans’ growing anger at George Bush and his right-wing regime.
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Review: Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win!
Builders Labourers fight deregistration, 1981-94, by Liz Ross.
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Review: ‘The Basque Ball’
IN ONE of the most controversial and the highest-grossing Spanish films ever, ’The Basque Ball’, director Julio Medem examines the Basque question through hundreds of interviews.
World Economy
World economy: New shocks cast cloud over recovery
The recovery in the world economy continues to assume an anaemic character.
Comment & Analysis
Review: How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
Among members of the Socialist Party, Francis Wheen is certainly most widely known as the author of an excellent biography of Karl Marx. Equally worth reading is his latest work, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World.
World Economy
World currencies: Turbulent times ahead?
Eurozone leaders attending the recent G7 summit of finance ministers from the richest capitalist nations let out a howl of impotent anguish. The statement issued after their meeting (7/8 February) at Boca Raton, Florida, deplored […]
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world social forum: Mumbai – the politics of the wsf and socialism
Intervening in the World Social Forum in Mumbai was very much like intervening in one six day-long demonstration. The activity was more or less constant from eight in the morning until nine or ten at […]
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Film review: Goodbye Lenin
Goodbye Lenin is a political love story set in East Germany (GDR) around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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world social forum, Mumbai: Mass struggle to overthrow imperialism and capitalism
A socialist world is possible and necessary