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Znet Article Rebick: Socialism in the 21st Century

Znet Article, January, 29 2006 Judy Rebick
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Socialism in the 21st Century

Znet Article Albert: Anti Capitalist Strategy

Znet Article, January, 26 2006 Michael Albert
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A viable and desirable strategy for transcending capitalism will certainly include leaving capitalism behind. Capitalism is despicable. It will also include, however, attaining something worthwhile in capitalism's place. What we win must be de...

Znet Article Chatterji: Now, Hindu Nationalists Rewriting California Textbooks

Znet Article, January, 08 2006 Angana Chatterji
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The attempts of diasporic Hindu nationalist organizations in the United States to intervene in revising segments on India, Indian history, and Hinduism in 6th grade textbooks in California State schools is disturbing. On December 2, 2005, the Curr...

Znet Article Early: Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz

Znet Article, January, 03 2006 Steve Early
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Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, student...

Znet Article Scipes: Labor Rights: If Unions Won't Fight for Them, Then What Good are Unions?

Znet Article, December, 17 2005 Kim Scipes
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On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney pointed out that, "For all practical purposes, Americans have lost the freedom to form unions." Accordingly, the AFL-CIO and its allies engaged in a series of protest...

Znet Article Albert: Venezuela's Path

Znet Article, November, 06 2005 Michael Albert
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Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is revolution. This October I spent a week in Caracas. That's not much information to work with but for what ...

Znet Article Albert: Interview with Michael Albert

Znet Article, October, 10 2005 Michael Albert
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AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...

Znet Article Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...

Znet Article Wainwright: Lula's Lament

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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'When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of this disaster, you begin to question your whole life. Why so many years of sacrifice and struggle?' Congressman Fernando Gabeira expresses the feelings of many petistas -...

Znet Article Davis: The Struggle Over The Future Of New Orleans

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Mike Davis
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THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster” in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S. government was universally condemned as a failure. What happened? HURRICANE KATRINA occurred on the ...

Znet Article Albert: Hannover Talk

Znet Article, September, 12 2005 Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...

Znet Article Albert: Business As Usual

Znet Article, September, 03 2005 Michael Albert
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The growing outrage over the willful ignoring of warnings and overt cutting of local expenditures that paved the way for New Orleans’ disaster is of course valid. The growing outrage over the unavailability of resources spent on immoral ...

Znet Article Aronowitz: On the AFL-CIO Split

Znet Article, August, 19 2005 Stanley Aronowitz
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In some respects it was fitting that four important affiliates declared their withdrawal from the AFL-CIO in the days running up to the 50th anniversary convention in July 2005. A merger which was conceived in a unity that signified complacency wa...

Znet Article Holloway: Can We Change The World Without Taking Power?

Znet Article, August, 16 2005 John Holloway
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John Holloway: I don’t know the answer. Perhaps we can change the world without taking power. Perhaps we cannot. The starting point—for all of us, I think—is uncertainty, not knowing, a common search for a way forward. Bec...

Znet Article Bacon: Unions At War

Znet Article, August, 11 2005 David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In Chicago's cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the floor. San Francisco's Nancy Wohlforth stood at mic number 2. She'd been waiting for this moment for two y...

Znet Article Albert: Exploring Parecon

Znet Article, July, 25 2005 Michael Albert
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In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people like Michael Albert creatively searching for salves for the ills in our economic system.  With his books "Movin...

Znet Article Fletcher jr.: Labor Needs a Hard Left Turn

Znet Article, July, 23 2005 Bill Fletcher jr.
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Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of John Sweeney was elected in 1995, Fletcher became the labor federation's director of...

Znet Article Choudry: Monkey-Wrenching the Globalization Gang

Znet Article, July, 23 2005 Aziz Choudry
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I went to Bretton Woods, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Amazingly, it's not a 'one size fits all' and it's not full of holes. Walking through the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods two years ago, in the New Hampshire mountain resort a...

Znet Article Hahnel: Winnowing Wheat From Chaff

Znet Article, March, 26 2005 Robin Hahnel
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For the Political Economy Seminar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on March 8, 2005 Social Democracy: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due I mean it as a great compliment when I say that capitalism functions poorly indeed without soc...

Znet Article Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 Walden Bello
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Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20 Global Protest against the War in Iraq. Over the next few days, millions of people throughout the world, from V...

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