Global Economy
We look at the economic background to the rioting and looting in Argentina, and the factors which led to the social crisis there.
The World Trade Organisation represents the interests of the capitalist class and is a product of the lessons they have learned for protecting their system.
The call for a Tobin tax—a tax on financial transactions—is not anti-capitalist, as some in the anti-globalisation movement seem to think.
Introduction to a three part study of globalisation
Part of a three-part study of globalisation
Part of a three-part study of globalisation
Part of a three-part study of globalisation
Debt crisis for the world’s poorest nations.
The IMF and Ghana.
Reflections on the Ugandan election.
Diamonds, Death and Profits.
United States enters Central Asia, seeking control over oil resources.
Thirty countries covering a quarter of the world’s population are officially in recession. Even defenders of capitalism are now compelled to use the term world economic crisis.
Russia is in trouble; and its economy is in dead crisis.
China’s move from state-run to free market capitalism.
Africa, a continent with virtually all the resources it takes for development, is the worst hit by hunger, starvation, armed conflicts, instability, displacement and abject poverty. Politicians, jockeying for the little resources left by the capitalist class, display the politics of hide-and-seek, repression and oppression.