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Articles from March-July 2008 are now in archive 15 (left column). Embedded videos may not work with Opera, try Firefox or Flock.
5 Oct: Walter Benn Michaels - Against Diversity (NLR)
5 Oct: Walden Bellow - A Primer on the Wall St Meltdown (Focus on the Global South)
4 Oct: Their Crisis, Our Consequences: is this what 1931 looks like? Charlie Post (Solidarity)
4 Oct: "If the US carries out terrorism, it didn't happen" - interview with Noam Chomsky
4 Oct: The God Question - Terry Eagleton (Aganst the Current)
4 Oct: Capitalist Crisis, Marx's Shadow - Rick Wolff (MRzine)
2 Oct: The current crisis - a socialist perspective: Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
29 Sept: After Kemal - Perry Anderson on the curve of development of post-Attaturk Turkey (LRB)
29 Sept: Cityphilia - John Lanchester (LRB)
29 Sept: Ellen Meiksins Wood reviews Quinten Skinner's 'Hobbes and Republican Liberty' (LRB)
29 Sept: Dan La Botz - Nationalise the Banks?
28 Sept: Light on the left leads his comrades towards France's mainstream (New York Times)
28 Sept: Red postman knocks at Sarkozy's door (Times, London) 'Seldom have France’s opposition Socialists seemed in a more pitiful state. Overtaken long ago by the right, they were also being outflanked by the left last week as the public fell under the dubious spell of “the red postman”'.
28 Sept: Robert Fisk: Why does the US think it can win in Afghanistan?
28 Sept: Robert Fisk: Six years in Guantanamo
28 Sept: New coup d'etat rumblings in Venezuela
28 Sept: Villagers hand over suspect in Sally Grace case
28 Sept: Sally Grace - another US activist murdered in Oaxaca
23 Sept: Peter Camejo tribute, by Barry Sheppard (Word document)
21 Sept: Bolivia - a visit to a roadblack. Bolivia solidarity activist Steve Wagstaff, currently living in Cochabamba, outlines the brutal chaos of the right-wing offensive
21 Sept: 150 years after the Grundrisse, the importance of Marx - interview with Eric Hobsbawm
21 Sept: Eric Toussaint - A new debt crisis of the third world?
21 Sept: Immanuel Wallerstein - Georgia, The New World Geopolitical Order:
End of Act I
20 Sept: Hurricane management in Cuba - Cuba was the only country with no loss of life as a result of being hit by Hurricane Gustavo. Widespread material damage however could not be avoided. By Salim Lamrani.
20 Sept: To Die For - Mark Thomas on death squad threats to union organisers at Colombia's Coca Cola bottling plants
20 Sept: VIDEO - Mass arrests of peaceful demonstrators at the Republican convention (AlterNet)
19 Sept: New on the embedded video page - Pakistan on the flightpath of American power
19 Sept: Tariq Ali - Asif Ali Zadari: the Godfather as president of Pakistan
19 September: Tariq Ali - War widens to Pakistan
19 Sept: Seumas Milne - The political class can't face up to the scale of this crisis
19 Sept: Lance Selfa - Can the Left take over the Democratic Party? (ISJ)
19 Sept: Forrest Hylton: Reactionary rampage in Bolvia
17 Sept: Crunch Time for Capitalism - British leftists and others give their views
17 Sept: The Machine Gun and The Meeting Table: Bolivian Crisis in a New South America - Ben Dangl (Upside Down World)
16 Sept: Gilbert Achcar - A balance sheet of US imperialism
CRISIS IN BOLIVIA AS REACTIONARY RIGHT UNLEASHES VIOLENCE AGAINST WORKERS AND PEASANTS
15 Sept: Morales calls unrest an attempted coup
14 Sept: Death toll in Bolvian fighting reaches 28 (BBC)
14 Sept: As reactionary coup unfolds, solidarity is needed! (Jorge Martin IDOF)
14 Sept: Soldiers hunt rebel governor in Bolivia unrest
14 Sept: Evo Morales denounces "fascist, racist coup"
14 Sept: Fascist Violence in Bolivia - an eyewitness report
14 Sept: "Socialist reforms or death" says Morales
14 Sept: A coup in the making? - Jeff Webber, New Socialist
14 Sept: US envoy expelled for backing Bolivian rebels
14 Sept: Evo Morales denounces massacre of peasants by right-wing rebels
Death of Peter Camejo
14 September: Louis Proyect - Reflections on Peter Camejo (1939-2008)
14 September: Peter Camejo dies (SF Gate)
12 September: Anti-Chavez coup plot exposed
12 September: Venezuela expels US ambassador (Al Jezeera)
11 September: Peter Gowan - Twilight of the Non-Proliferation Treaty? (NLR)
11 September: Celia Hart, a personal tribute - Liam Mac Uaid
11 September: Ructions in British SWP over Respect/Left Alternative
6 September: Tijuana - Empire's Slum (Rocky Neptun, Indybay)
6 September: Myths of Male Dominance - Ealeanor Burke Leacock
6 September: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Phase 2 of the Financial Crisis - Jack Rasmus, ZMag.-> Get this as a pdf without illustrations
6 September: NATO tries to cover up Afghanistan massacres - Socialist Worker, UK
6 September: Half measures and tinkering don't make a recovery plan - Seumas Milne
6 September: Naomi Klein - Obama got Hurricane Gustav wrong
3 September: Demystifying Obama - Paul Street (Znet Book interview)
3 September: Applying Leninism in a Time of Retreat - Mary Scully (Socialist Democracy)
1 September: Bolivia: Two years of post neo-liberal nationalist development - by the Bolpress editorial board, translation by Sean Seymour Jones, Links
1 September: Development and Desert - Border Land Struggle Turns Bloody In Cuidad Juarez (Karl Lydersen, Upside Down World)
1 September: New on the embedded videos page - John Mearsheimer on Iraq, the Neocons and the Israel Lobby
31 August: Mass marches in Mexico protest crime epidemic - "I think the first thing that needs to be done is a clean-up of the police. Because everyone knows that they are the ones who commit the crimes. Even the chiefs are involved, because there's a lot of impunity, the law is not observed and there's corruption everywhere." Fernanda Solis, whose son was murdered three years go.
31 August: China's Pyrrhic Olympic Victory - Boris Kagarlitsky. "The new Asian capitalism, marching forward under red Communist Party banners, has combined the most abhorrent elements of both systems -- the harsh, one-party dictatorship coupled with the blind and equally harsh pursuit of profit at any cost, which includes widespread violations of workers' rights."
31 August: Russia's upside in Georgian conflict - Boris Kagarlitsky
31 August: Robert Fisk - Why do we keep letting politicians get away with lies?
31 August: Manufactured famine: how Europe steals food from the poor - George Monbiot
30 August: New Video page. new video page
30 August: Video: The New Left in China - Minqi Li (Real News Network)
30 August: Afghanistan: Mirage of the 'Good War' - Tariq Ali (NLR)
30 August: War resister sentenced to 15 months in US - Sarah Lazre, ZNet . See also video: Canada refuses to allow war resister to stay
29 August: Video - Conversations with history, Perry Anderson interview: see transcript here
24 August: How Globalisation Works - Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (TMMTX) -- A Case Study
by Richard D. Vogel
24 August: Bolivia - right wing rebellion spurs left offensive (Frederico Fuentes, GLW)
24 August: Morales sends troops to guard oil and gas installations (AFP)
24 August: Bolvia split in two as wealthy aim to defy Morales revolution (Observer UK)
24 August: Land and Freedom - Kashmir is in crisis: the region's Muslims are mounting huge non-violent protests against the Indian government's rule. But, asks Arundhati Roy, what would independence for the territory mean for its people?
24 August: Book Review - Rethinking Venezuelan Politics:
24 August: Past its Peak: Michael Klare on the oil crisis (LRB)
24 August: Kick Over the Scenery: Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick (LRB)
23 August: Food riots, anger as floods sweep South Asia (Reuters)
23 August: Why we need to talk about...toilets. Maggie Black on the international sanitation crisis (NI)
23 August: End Game in the Amazon - Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa has said that his government is prepared not to extract nearly a billion barrels of oil from Yasuní National Park - Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist
23 August: Hugo Chavez bashes CEMEX after nationalisation - Mexican cement giant CEMEX is challenging the nationalisation of their Venezuelan subsidiary (Associated Press)
23 August: Left gaining momentum in El Salvador (Alby Dallas, Green Left Weekly)
23 August: Does 'Sex and the City' represent women's liberation? - Virginia Brown, Direct Action
23 August: Video - Murray river crisis threatens Australian wetlands
23 August: Water mafias put stranglehold on public water supply - National Geographic
23 August: Michael Moore dare to ask: What's so heroic about being shot down while bombing innocent civilians?
23 August: Gus Horowitz talk on the American SWP 1960-80 (pdf)
23 August - The Economics of a New Cold War (Newsweek)
23 August: Miliband means more of the same, Labour needs change - Seumas Milne
17 August: US holding thousands of prisoners with alleged terror ties in Iraq - Basil Adas, Alternet
17 August: Has working class consciousness collapsed? Phil Hearse
15 August: This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression - Seumas Milne
15 August: As economic troubles bite, Italian holidaymakers are turning against the super-rich. It's about time.
13 August: Huge stakes in Caucuses War - Sungur Savran (MRzine)
13 August: War in the Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation? - Michael Chossudovsky
13 August: Evo Morales wins critical vote (text, audio, video) - Democracy Now interview with Jim Shultz , executive director of the Democracy Center in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
13 August: Evo Morales promises constitutional change after rewferendum victory: see also Bolivia remains bitterly divided despite morales poll win
7 August: New on the Ecosocialism page - Why the Flooding Worsens, CS Monitor
7 August: Video - István Mészáros: The New Crisis of Capitalism
6 August: Daniel Miller - Sterilizing Cyberspace (NLR)
6 August - Hiroshima Day: John Pilger "The lies about Hiroshima live on 63 years after the bombing"
6 August: Stefan Collini - Re-assessing Raymond Williams (LRB)
6 August: Putin and capitalism in One State - Boris Kagarlitsky
Bill Gates speaking in Davros January 2008
5 August: Idle Dreams of 'Creative Capitalism' : Bill Gates' plan to solve world poverty - Phil Hearse
4 August: Company that led torture training for Mexico police is Risks Incorporated of Miami - Kristen Bricker, Narcosphere
4 August: The Historical Significance of the Cochabamba Factory Workers Strike - Oscar Olivera
Former UK tennis star Tim Henman endorses Beijing's Olympics
3 August: The Bitter Truth behind the Olympics - Phil Hearse
3 August: Miliband, Labour and the British Crisis - Phil Hearse
2 August: Gary McKinnon extradition - America's cracked code (Duncan Campbell, Guardian UK)
