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world social forum, Mumbai: the cwi at the wsf
Pictures from Mumbai
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world social forum, Mumbai: No workers’ alternative in Indian election
"Many multinational corporations feel their mouths water at the mention of the opening up of the Indian economy. India offers a good ground for plunder. Even if only 10 per cent of the population of […]
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World Social Forum 2004, Mumbai: A demonstration of demonstrations
Over 120,000 people have attended the World Social Forum in Mumbai.
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world social forum: Mumbia – Garments workers and General Electric workers fight the bosses
cwi interviews striking workers’ leaders
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Review: Empire defeated by Peter Taaffe
THE STRUGGLE over the war was as much for the ’hearts and minds’ of the American people as it was for those of the Vietnamese.
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Review: Is this how to dump Bush?
Michael Moore said "barring success", Stupid White Men, (reviewed in the socialist, issue 254), would be his last book. But last year when George W Bush was supposedly so popular, it was the leading non-fiction […]
World Economy
World economy: Will there be a recovery?
THE BOOMS of the 1980s and 1990s were both driven by frenzied international financial speculation. They have left deep problems for capitalism, and now form a massive barrier to a new, sustained economic upswing in […]
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Review: Fears about anti-capitalism beset The Economist
“Capitalism and poverty reduction has just had its best few decades in the whole of history…” and yet “…Anti-capitalist demonstrations on May 1st in cities around the world attracted sizeable crowds”.
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review: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
ON A bright June day in Liverpool in 1977, hundreds of trade unionists and socialists took part in a march to rally at the final resting place of Robert Noonan – known more popularly as […]
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W.E.B. Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk revisited
In 1903, sociologist, scholar, and historian W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963) wrote his book The Souls of Black Folk, which would make a vital contribution to the struggle of African Americans in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction […]