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Blog Post Simpson: On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5

Blog Post, March, 09 2008 Bob Simpson
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On the Global Waterfront tells how the globalization of the labor movement is confronting the globalization of capital.

Blog Post Wetzel: Barcelona bus drivers strike

Blog Post, March, 03 2008 Tom Wetzel
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Workers assembly runs transit strike in Barcelona

Blog Post Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society For The 21st Century

Blog Post, March, 01 2008 Chris Spannos
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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.

Blog Post Street: Obama Staffer to Canadian Ambassador: "Don't Take Our Campaign Rhetoric Seriously"

Blog Post, February, 29 2008 Paul Street
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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...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Labor Movement and Civil Society in Russia

Commentary, February, 26 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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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.

Znet Article Bello: Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood

Znet Article, February, 22 2008 Walden Bello
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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.

Blog Post Spannos: Reviewing Solidarity's Vision: The Self-Managed Society Pt. 2

Blog Post, February, 21 2008 Chris Spannos
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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...

Commentary Mondragon: Uribe's Pyramids

Commentary, February, 15 2008 Hector Mondragon
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Uribe's government has ridden the global economic tidal wave generated by the war in Iraq that started in 2003. First, the government used as a base public, internal debt by selling bonds (called TES) at high interest rates (like all pyramids) ab...

Znet Article Fox: Building Autonomy, One Co-op at a Time

Znet Article, February, 14 2008 Michael Fox
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It's a social movement and a housing cooperative. A massive self-help program for the poor and a new way of life for thousands. With 20,000 member-families living in cooperatively owned homes in 400 communities across the country, it is one of the...

Znet Article Johnson: The Economic Disaster That Is Military Keynesianism

Znet Article, February, 06 2008 Chalmers Johnson
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Global confidence in the US economy has reached zero...

Blog Post Denton: AustinPPS Gives Its First Talk

Blog Post, February, 04 2008 Marcus Denton
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Last Thursday the Austin Project for a Participatory Society put on our first talk, "Introducing Parecon: Participatory Economics as an alternative to capitalism."

Znet Article Klein: Disowned by the Ownership Society

Znet Article, February, 03 2008 Naomi Klein
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Remember the “ownership society,” fixture of major George W. Bush addresses for the first four years of his presidency? “We’re creating…an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where t...

Blog Post Wetzel: Guild socialism as a precursor to partcipipatory economics

Blog Post, February, 01 2008 Tom Wetzel
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In the World War 1 era ideas of workers managing industry had gained a certain popularity in the labor movement in the US and Britain. Thinkers like G.D.H. Cole and R.H. Tawney in England responded to this by developing a vision of a decentralized...

Znet Article Cronan jr: Participatory Economics As An Alternative

Znet Article, January, 29 2008 John Cronan jr
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Margaret Thatcher is credited for coining the phrase, “there is no alternative”, or TINA for short, referring to her assertion that there is no alternative to neoliberalism—meaning that economic activity is better left to the dictates of unrestric...

Znet Article Billet: Picket the Grammys!

Znet Article, January, 28 2008 Alexander Billet
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An Open Letter to the Writers Guild of America...

Commentary Spannos: Consciousness for Classlessness: A Necessity for the Class War

Commentary, January, 26 2008 Chris Spannos
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Analysts and pundits alike all have common understanding of the following words for explaining and remedying the current state of the U.S. economy: "recession," "inflation," "housing crisis," "economic stimulus package," "rate cuts," and "injectio...

Commentary Fletcher jr.: Organized Labor & the Presidential Candidates

Commentary, January, 17 2008 Bill Fletcher jr.
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I have been struck, both positively and negatively, by the approach taken by labor unions towards the 2008 Presidential race.

Znet Article Cochrane: It's time to stop listening

Znet Article, January, 12 2008 D. t. Cochrane
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Economists have played an important role in getting our economy and our environment into their current dire straits. They have little to offer but more of the same.

Commentary Cronan jr: Building a Liberatory Labor Movement

Commentary, December, 27 2007 John Cronan jr
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In the United States, we can see the roots of an emerging militant labor movement. Though in its infancy, rank-and-file initiatives are becoming more common as traditional Labor continues to fail us. A militant labor movement will be comprised of ...

Znet Article Burrows: Participatory Economics in Theory & Practice

Znet Article, December, 22 2007 Paul Burrows
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A discussion of the theory and practice of participatory economics, via personal reflections on Winnipeg's Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House collective.

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