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Baker: Economy Loses 83,000 Jobs, Unemployment Jumps to 5.1 Percent
Znet Article, April, 10 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The private sector is shedding jobs at the rate of almost 100,000 per month...
Peters: Newsflash: If it sounds ridiculous, it probably is…
Commentary, April, 09 2008
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
The challenge for activists isn't just that we have legions of crises to face everyday. It's also that we have to operate in a corporate-sponsored culture that constantly barrages us and our communities with the message that individuals are the pr...
Bello: Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
Znet Article, April, 07 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet's climate will be large-scale, irreversible and disastrous.
Simpson: Our Subprime Economy
Blog Post, April, 05 2008
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
Our Subprime Economy
Henwood: Would You Like Change With That?
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Doug Henwood
Henwood's ZSpace page
In this binary world, when you criticize Obama, people immediately include you're a Hillary Clinton fan. Uh, no...
Early: A Purple Uprising In Oakland
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
As an infrequent visitor to the west coast, I’ve never experienced the earthquake tremors that are so familiar to millions of Californians.
Albert: Parecon and Gender
Znet Article, March, 30 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A problem with this discussion, like many others that we will undertake, is that there is as yet very little clarity about what revolutionized kinship relations will be like in a new society...
Albert: Parecon & Education
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
One aspect of education is intrinsic and oriented to the individual. To think about education starting with the student, we examine the process of conveying information and skills to develog talents in students. We ask what is the best way to educ...
Albert: Parecon & Cultural Communities
Znet Article, March, 26 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Humans tend to create diverse communities bound by shared cultures that differ from one another in their artistic, linguistic, and spiritual allegiances and preferences. The problem of cultural communities is not this diversity per se, but that cu...
Albert: Parecon and Art
Znet Article, March, 25 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
One could easily anticipate that people who own factories and have great wealth would have a negative initial--and perhaps long term--reaction to the classlessness of participatory economics...
Tuathail: Marmato’s Gold Bonanza
Znet Article, March, 21 2008
Micheál Tuathail
Tuathail's ZSpace page
Colombia Goldfields, the company’s website announces, is “rediscovering the land of the golden mountain” through two major projects in the region; the Marmato Development Project and the Caramanta Exploration Project, located approximately seven k...
Black: Imperialism and fossil fuels
Blog Post, March, 19 2008
Toban Black
Black's ZSpace page
A speech about oil and natural gas interests in and around the so-called war on ‘terror.’
Majavu: The Mis-education of the Coordinator Class
Commentary, March, 14 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
Chomsky (2004) points out that Harvard trains the people that rule the world, while MIT trains those who make it work. I cannot think of a more succinct way of describing the goals of an educational process that creates and maintains the coordinat...
Simpson: On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5
Blog Post, March, 09 2008
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
On the Global Waterfront tells how the globalization of the labor movement is confronting the globalization of capital.
Wetzel: Barcelona bus drivers strike
Blog Post, March, 03 2008
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
Workers assembly runs transit strike in Barcelona
Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society For The 21st Century
Blog Post, March, 01 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
After three years of organizing and editing, the book Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press) will finally be released in May.
Street: Obama Staffer to Canadian Ambassador: "Don't Take Our Campaign Rhetoric Seriously"
Blog Post, February, 29 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
There is a global and corporate-globalizationist ruling class and there are subordinate, nation-bound working-classes within specific states that make up the many smaller state-specific political units of the world capitalist system. Many of the...
Kagarlitsky: The Labor Movement and Civil Society in Russia
Commentary, February, 26 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
Workers of the 'Ford' plant in Vsevolozhsk wrestled a compromise, but with the invigorated labour movement, the struggle for the amendment of the Russian Labor code is likely to become the most important political issue, writes Boris Kagarlitsky.
Bello: Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood
Znet Article, February, 22 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession.
Spannos: Reviewing Solidarity's Vision: The Self-Managed Society Pt. 2
Blog Post, February, 21 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
This is the second in a series of blogs reviewing the Solidarity groups 1972 pamphlet publication of Workers' Councils and the Economics of Self-Managed Society by Cornelius Castoriadis, first published in 1957 (Number 22 of the French journal Soc...
