Globalization/Capitalism

The market is a god that has failed

The market is a god that has failed.

In earlier centuries, societies were centered on monarchs who derived their authority from divine will and today "markets" are treated in the same way — as a "natural order" ordained from above. European medieval peasants were kept in their place by church and lord, cementing the rule and wealth of the privileged. The lords made the laws and controlled the courts, and the churches provided the propaganda and justifications. God willed the arrangement, and who was a peasant to challenge it?

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Support Oil Workers in Kazakhstan

This is the 5th installment of the 3 Minute News Update series. A quick overview of the oil workers struggle in Kazakhstan and the recent visit by <a href="http://www.paulmurphymep.eu/" target="_blank">Paul Murphy</a> Socialist MEP.

For more information and updates visit: http://www.socialistworld.net/

 

Capitalism in Crisis

If one watches the business channel on cable television, they seem to have a multitude of different explanations for the recent financial crisis from letting Lehman Brothers go under to misspending the government bailout money to not giving the capitalists even more money, etc., etc. They say the consumer has stopped spending, but this seems to mystify most of these commentators, who evidently believe consumers are sitting on a pile of cash and just being stubborn and petulant about spending it.

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The global crisis is a crisis of capitalism

It is time for the workers and the poor in the Philippines to prepare for the worse the moment its government keeps on repeating the mantra that the economic fundamentals remain good and thus there is little to worry about effects of the global recessionary trend. The world found itself in the present mess precisely because of such blind faith in neoliberal fundamentalism.

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Lloyd Hart Live

Lloyd Hart will take your questions from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET today on shit we are wading through this election and this economy.

If you have a question send it to dadapop@dadapop.com or at the chat box at USstream.tv

www.ustream.tv/channel/the-hart-report

Lloyd Hart discusses the New Fascism, the Military Dictatorship in the U.S and its long partnership with Corporate Interests here in the U.S and around the world as it plays out before our eyes.

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Why Push For Impeachment?

There is no better time than right now to support the case for impeachment against George Bush and Richard Cheney. There is no better time to stop supporting the myths we tell ourselves and each other on why we, the people, should not act against tyranny and aggression. There is no better time than right now to begin building the case for prosecution of war crimes.

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Video Interview: IWW Denied Access to Mall of America by Riot Police

As an act of solidarity, several dozen local Industrial Workers of the World members and supporters, along with National Lawyer's Guild observers, intended to peacefully escort the fired then reinstated Erik Forman to the Mall of America. In line with recent police aggression in the Twin Cities related to the 2008 RNC in St. Paul (see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/30/18531223.php), police massed at the IWW rally point at the light rail station at Lake & Hiawatha.

ICC, "Food Riots and the Connection to Credit Crunch"

Food Riots Show the Need to Overcome Capitalism

During the past weeks a series of revolts, protests and strikes against the rising food and energy prices have broken out in many countries of the capitalist periphery. At recent meetings the guard dogs of the capitalist institutions - IMF, World Bank and G 8 - have warned of a gigantic destabilisation and conflicts in almost 40 countries around the world.
It is no coincidence that the hunger revolts are erupting now, since the sharp rise in food prices is not a natural disaster but a result of the sharpening of the capitalist crisis.

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