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Globalization and the global justice movement
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Global gap between rich and poor
The global justice movement
Globalization's terrible trio
Free Trade Assault on the Americas
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Let them eat ethanol
For the 3 billion people who survive on less than $2 a day, the upward spiral in global food prices has meant a struggle for the right to eat.
GLOBAL GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR
The draining of Africa's wealth
Author and activist Patrick Bond looks at the neoliberal project in Africa today, and the social movements that are opposing it.
Mike Davis on a Planet of Slums
The rising tide of urban poverty
Author Mike Davis talks about the economic, social, political and environmental consequences of the rising tide of urban poverty.
Why the world looks flat to Thomas Friedman
About 50 pages into his new book The World Is Flat, you start to wonder how New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman found the time to write so much about so little.
Rich countries put conditions on debt relief
The G8's debt scam
The world's most powerful countries have long used debt to dominate the world's poorest countries. Now they're using debt "relief" to accomplish the same thing.
Strings attached to Washington's disaster relief
Bush's insult to tsunami victims
U.S. government aid to the desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis is finally arriving. But it has strings attached.
Mike Davis on the political factors in "natural" disasters
"The burden falls on the poorest societies"
Bhopal: The making of a disaster
The Bhopal industrial disaster of 20 years ago wasn't some nightmarish aberration from the free-market "new India," but its inevitable accompaniment.
Two survivors speak out on the 1984 industrial disaster
"We want real justice for Bhopal"
Hunger in a world of plenty
In a world that has sent people into outer space and cured all manner of disease, why do so many people suffer and die from one of the oldest causes in human history--not enough food?
THE GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT
Naomi Klein on capitalism and the free market
A system built on crisis and violence
A discussion with the author of The Shock Doctrine, an indictment of the free market in the era of neoliberalism and the "war on terror."
In the era of globalization:
Has the class struggle been "offshored"?
In a "globalized" world, isn't the very idea of class struggle outmoded? On the contrary, class and class struggle remain central in the U.S. today.
The story of Argentina's reclaimed factories
With workers in charge
Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis' forward introduces a book that provides a history of the dozens of Argentinian workplaces where workers took control and restarted production.
Arundhati Roy:
Public power in the age of empire
Author Arundhati Roy is one of the leading voices in the international struggle against war, poverty and injustice. Her recent speech in San Francisco raises crucial questions about the future of our movement.
Do we consume too much?
It's a commonly held belief that we could go a long way to ending world hunger, poverty and pollution if Americans would stop consuming so much. But this lets the real culprits off the hook.
Crisis and resistance: Where are we headed?
With war looming in Iraq and the world economy still slumping, what does the future hold? Socialist Worker talked to a panel of socialists about the international political situation--and the growing resistance to both Washington's wars and the madness of the free market.
Lessons of Genoa
Socialist Worker talked to two participants in last month's protests against the Group of Eight in Genoa, Italy--about the aftermath of the demonstrations and the challenges ahead.
"They are eight, we are 6 billion"
The battle of Genoa
Activists came to protest a world of grotesque inequality and poverty. But the leaders of the eight most powerful countries on Earth wanted to show who's boss. Here is SW's collection of eyewitness reports from the protests against the Group of Eight summit in Italy.
GLOBALIZATION'S TERRIBLE TRIO
A structural adjustment for Wolfowitz?
The scandal involving World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is only one aspect of the crisis at the Bank and it sister organization, the International Monetary Fund.
Indispensible book for global justice activists
Handbook on neoliberalism
Eric Toussaint's Your Money or Your Life provides an excellent framework for understanding the institutions of global capital and the neoliberal model.
Wolfowitz goes to the World Bank
From hawk to global loan shark
Paul Wolfowitz will use his experience wielding U.S. military power around the world in his new job--imposing Washington's economic might on the world's poor.
The IMF-World Bank loan sharks:
Prescribing poverty
Bankers and bureaucrats in the U.S., Europe and Japan are determined to use the debt of the world's poorest countries to bolster their imperial power.
World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz takes on the IMF
Crimes of the free market
Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank chief economist, has written a controversial book attacking the IMF and its free-market policies.
Latin America suffers the consequences of "neoliberalism"
Pushed to the edge by the IMF
The Brazilian economy remains in turmoil even after an IMF bailout. It is the victim of U.S.-backed free-market policies that have caused economic crisis from one end of Latin America to the other.
How the IMF gang wrecked Indonesia
Australian socialist Max Lane explains how the IMF's "rescue" of Indonesia after the 1997-98 economic crisis helped to turn a crisis into a disaster for Indonesia's 200 million people.
FREE TRADE ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAS
What they won't say about NAFTA
Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's criticisms of the North American Free Trade Agreement make it seem like the U.S. is the biggest loser.
CAFTA trade deal sparks struggle across Central America
Resisting the bosses' free-trade agenda
A proposal to extend NAFTA southward has triggered mass opposition in Central America--and could even be in trouble in the U.S. Congress as well.
Report from the anti-FTAA protest
Defying the police state in Miami
"Welcome to the police state of Miami." That's Florida AFL-CIO President Cynthia Hall's greeting to thousands of union members arriving for a protest against the FTAA.
Uproar over steel tariffs
Steel and the politics of "free" trade
Is American steel a rust-belt relic or a pillar of the U.S. economy? This question came to the fore after the World Trade Organization announced that the U.S. had violated WTO rules by placing tariffs on imported steel.
Preparing to protest in Miami
Why we oppose the FTAA
Thirty-four countries with 800 million people--all under Uncle Sam's thumb. That's the essence of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.
THE SOCIAL FORUM MOVEMENT
Thousands flock to U.S. Social Forum
More than 10,000 activists mobilized from across the U.S. to attend the first ever U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta from June 27 to July 1.
Is the WSF movement in crisis?
The 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi highlighted some of the strengths--but also problems and limitations--of the international conferences.
World Social Forum comes to a crossroads
More than 100,000 activists are expected to converge on Caracas in Venezuela January 24-29 for the fifth edition of the World Social Forum.
World Social Forum 2005
This year's World Social Forum highlighted crucial debates for the left in Latin America and internationally.
Social Forum of the Americas:
We demand justice across the Americas
Ecuador was a perfect site for the first Social Forum of the Americas. Everyday life sharply illustrates the forum's theme that it's urgent to fight for economic equality and social justice.
The World Social Forum in Mumbai
World of resistance
SW reports from the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India--and describes the political backdrop for this enormous gathering.
Report from the European Social Forum
A Europe of rights, a world without war
Socialist Worker reports from the European Social Forum, where more than 50,000 representatives of left-wing organizations, unions and social movements met to discuss today's--and tomorrow's--struggles.
Report from Porto Alegre 2003:
Building the fight for another world
SW reporters provide a firsthand account of the third World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil--and look at the movement to build an alternative to a world dominated by economic crisis and war.
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