Thursday, May 24th 2012
The IMF released their latest ‘World Economic Outlook’ (WEO) last week. The WEO is a twice yearly publication in which IMF economists try to predict near and medium term economic developments - the WEO also, quite notably, failed to see exploding house-prices in certain advanced economies as the hazardous bubble which, of [...]
Book Review: In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Greg Albo (PM Press, May 2010) & The Enigma of Capital And the Crises of Capitalism, David Harvey (Profile Books, April 2010)
I’ve always found the economic side of Marxism to be a bit of a chore, [...]
This is a translation of the article by Francisco Herreros originally published in Red Diario Digital in Chile. The translation, by Roberto Navarrete for alborada.net was published on the 27th of August. We’re republishing it here with Roberto’s permission.
Through sheer good luck, the tough character of the trapped miners, and the [...]
This is an interview published in El Público today with Luis García Montero and Joaquín Sabinaby that Hugh Green translated this morning and posted on his own blog. I’m cross-posting the full post with the interview and an introduction with his permission.
While we might get enthralled by cement mixers at the expense of the [...]
David Harvey | Guardian Business Podcast
David Harvey on the Guardian Business podcast talking about his new book The Enigma of Capital, crisis within capitalism and other things such as the current debt crisis in Europe, the economic powerhouse of China, the inability of Obama and the Democrats to challenge the “Party of Wall Street”, the [...]
A comment on the EU’s new strategy
Sometimes no news is not good news - and this is certainly the case as far as Europe 2020 - the European Union‘s proposal for a new overarching strategy is concerned. Most of it copies the Lisbon Strategy, adopted in March 2000, and if you think the past decade [...]
At a well attended press launching in Dublin, human rights activists Andy Storey, Dennis Halliday and Benny McCabe outlined some of the history over the last ten years since Shell arrived in Erris, County Mayo, Ireland.
Human rights organisation AFri is calling for a suspension of all work on the Corrib project in Erris, County Mayo, [...]
The latest Socialist Register, which was published in October 2009, is called Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitialism. As one of the editors, Colin Leys says, the aim was to show that health is a subject that currently isn’t but needs to be considered as part of Political Economy and should be something that is an [...]
One would have to lead the existence of an unrepentant hermit, allergic to our all pervasive media, to have avoided coming into contact with the much discussed and apparently novel new phenomenon of globalisation. Though, of course, globalisation can be traced back several centuries, at least, for political leaders around the globe it has over [...]
In a sign of things to come, whatever the result of the next General Election, Ken Clarke has announced Tory plans to sell off the Royal Mail. The democratic choice facing the electorate will be a Tory full-blooded privatisation or a Labour part-privatisation, with the Liberal Democrats also supporting the latter option. Such a democratic [...]
