This article was acquired from Green Left Weekly.
Capitalism, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative
Ian Angus
21 June 2008
Below is part two of a special feature on the global food crisis. Green Left Weekly published the first part in #750. Both parts are reprinted from http://socialistvoice.ca. The author edits http://climateandcapitalism.com.
“Nowhere in the world, in no act of [...]
World stock markets are again reeling, this time on rumors that the two largest financial institutio...
Read more »The important student organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is holding their National Convention from July 24th to the 27th in College Park, Maryland.
Kasama will be posting a series of articles relating to current controversies in the organization. Our aim is, as usual, not to endorse the perspectives of these articles, but to [...]
1. We know where you are.
If you have a cell phone, and a lot of people do, the phone company knows where you are. It has to. Otherwise it couldn’t get any phone calls to you. Your cell phone reports its position fairly often to the cell towers in its area, and the phone company [...]
Hedge funds are in the news again. They don't much like
being in the public gaze. We wonder why. Does their speculation cause prices to
go up? Do they drive firms into bankruptcy so workers lose their jobs? These
are the questions being asked. Let's see what they get up to.
by Mike Ely
As everyone probably knows, Jesse Jackson was overheard saying that Obama was “talking down to Black people” over Black fatherhood and religious faith, and adding that this made Jesse Jackson want to cut his nuts off.
The mainstream media jumped all over Jackson — saying he was outdated, eclipsed, wrong and spiteful.
Fox’s African American [...]
“I’m thinking to myself how marvellously civilised the US has become since the 1960s when soccer players were approached by slack jawed yokels who’d point at the lettering on their shirts and drawl: “So what’s saucer?” (true story). But then….”
by Steven Wells
[Originally published in the British guardian, thanks to the threewayfight blog for posting it.]
It’s [...]
APOC NORTHEAST REGIONAL CONFERENCE
August 8th-9th in Philadelphia, PA ...
On July 9th tens of thousands of workers and
peasants took to the streets in Peru
as part a national strike. The strike had been called to protest against the
right wing economic policies of the government of Alan García.
By Malik Miah, from Against the Current, July/August 2008, No. 135.
Now that Illinois Senator Barack Obama has become the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, what does it say about U.S. civil society? What stance should progressives and socialists take?
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Read more »El asesinato en 1948 de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, de la izquierda del Partido Liberal y casi seguro vencedor en las elecciones presidenciales anunciadas, desencadenó el Bogotazo y, en toda Colombia.
Read more »El Partido Comunista de Venezuela se une a la movilización de protesta por visita del presidente narcoparamilitar y terrorista, Alvaro Uribe Vélez, para el 11 de Julio próximo.
Read more »Durante todos estos meses hemos asistido a un festival mediático donde se obligó al pueblo argentino a optar entre Guate-MALA (el gobierno del PJ) y Guate-PEOR (la gran patronal sojera).
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a period of relative stability everything is now beginning to unravel in Britain.
Blairism is finished, the economy is in decline, and living standards are being
hit hard. Labour is staring defeat in the face, as the Tories get ready to come
back. All the conditions are being prepared for a huge upsurge in the class
struggle.
We have just received the sad news of the death of Terry
Fields, a Militant supporter and Labour MP for Liverpool Broadgreen (1983 -92).
He died over the weekend after a long struggle with cancer. Terry is remembered
by all the comrades who knew him as a true class fighter and a man who stuck to
his socialist principles throughout.
Traducción de la declaración de la coordinadora que organiza las manifestaciones contra el G8 en Japón, realizada por el Centro de Estudios Anarquistas Germinal de Costa Rica. ...
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