Marx in Copenhagen
"Goodbye Africa, goodbye South Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you." Such was George Monbiot's dismay as the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference ended.
What if?
What if I told you that by supporting the 1935 Social Security Act you would be selling out the working class and capitulating to right-wing special interests?
Celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall
This week, we are informed, the world is celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Capitalism, socialism, democracy and other letters to the editor
Michael Moore's film on capitalism shows how very limited democracy is under capitalism.
We want our money back
In a true democracy the finance industry would be the servant of the Main Street economy, not its master.
We must incriminate the basic rules of capitalism: An interview with Paul Boccara
Communist economist Paul Boccara has just published a book about the transformations and the crisis of global capitalism, in which he deals with the financial crisis, among other topics. Paul Boccara puts forward proposals to initiate emancipation from this 'gone mad' system.
Blogging from India #7 Meet the Communist governor of West Bengal
COIMBATORE, India — West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and attended the party's 19th Congress here in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
EDITORIAL: Happy birthday, Lenin
More than 60 years ago, the African American poet Langston Hughes wrote, “Lenin walks around the world, Frontiers cannot bar him … Lenin walks around the world, Black, brown and white receive him.”
More on the socialist market economy
We print another reply to Prof. Erwin Marquit’s People Before Profits columns on the “socialist market economy,” published in the PWW earlier this summer. The discussion will continue in subsequent issues. Socialism and commodity exchange
