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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...
Mondragon: Uribe's Pyramids
Commentary, February, 15 2008
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
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...
Fox: Building Autonomy, One Co-op at a Time
Znet Article, February, 14 2008
Michael Fox
Fox's ZSpace page
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...
Johnson: The Economic Disaster That Is Military Keynesianism
Znet Article, February, 06 2008
Chalmers Johnson
Johnson's ZSpace page
Global confidence in the US economy has reached zero...
Denton: AustinPPS Gives Its First Talk
Blog Post, February, 04 2008
Marcus Denton
Denton's ZSpace page
Last Thursday the Austin Project for a Participatory Society put on our first talk, "Introducing Parecon: Participatory Economics as an alternative to capitalism."
Klein: Disowned by the Ownership Society
Znet Article, February, 03 2008
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
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...
Wetzel: Guild socialism as a precursor to partcipipatory economics
Blog Post, February, 01 2008
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
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...
Cronan jr: Participatory Economics As An Alternative
Znet Article, January, 29 2008
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
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...
Billet: Picket the Grammys!
Znet Article, January, 28 2008
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
An Open Letter to the Writers Guild of America...
Spannos: Consciousness for Classlessness: A Necessity for the Class War
Commentary, January, 26 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
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...
Fletcher jr.: Organized Labor & the Presidential Candidates
Commentary, January, 17 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
I have been struck, both positively and negatively, by the approach taken by labor unions towards the 2008 Presidential race.
Cochrane: It's time to stop listening
Znet Article, January, 12 2008
D. t. Cochrane
Cochrane's ZSpace page
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.
Cronan jr: Building a Liberatory Labor Movement
Commentary, December, 27 2007
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
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 ...
Burrows: Participatory Economics in Theory & Practice
Znet Article, December, 22 2007
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
A discussion of the theory and practice of participatory economics, via personal reflections on Winnipeg's Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House collective.
Spannos: Anarchy & Participatory Society
Commentary, November, 09 2007
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The title of this panel is "Real Utopia: Paths to a Participatory Society," and is inspired by a book I am editing for AK Press (April, 2008). However, a conference like RAT presents challenges for how to approach the topic of vision for a partici...
Lendman: Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
Znet Article, September, 20 2007
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Naomi Klein is an awar...
Albert: Pat Devine on Parecon
Znet Article, August, 28 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was happy to see a review of Parecon: Life After Capitalism in the journal "Historical Materialism" (Issue 15, 2007). The author, Pat Devine, agrees on the importance of economic vision per se. He is also quite familiar with the model called par...
Albert: Parecon as a New Path for the Balkans?
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The following interview was prepared for ZMag Balkans, a new print magazine, produced by "Freedom Fight collective" f...
Klein: Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories
Znet Article, July, 21 2007
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
As journalists, we had to ask ourselves what we were doing there. What possible relevance could there be in this one factory at the southernmost tip of our continent, with its band of radical workers and its David and Goliath narrative, when bunke...
