The Battlefields Chosen by Contemporary Imperialism: Conditions for an Effective Response from the South by Samir Amin Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. “In the art of war, each belligerent chooses the terrain considered most advantageous for its battle for the offensive and tries to impose that terrain on [...]
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Capitalism and socialism
Capitalism, Crises, and a Socialist Alternative: In Conversation With Michael A. Lebowitz by Rebekah Wetmore and Ryan Romard reposted from Monthly Review Press Rebekah Wetmore and Ryan Romard (RW/RR): The crisis of world capitalism starting in 2007 was the most severe crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression and thus far the recovery, both globally [...]
Organising against the Right
Dear friend, SEARCH Foundation decided at its last AGM to make building an alliance against the Right our main political priority for this year. On the 7th of April at the Secure Jobs Green Future Conference Sydney there is a panel plenary session on strategies for the left to which I will contribute as SEARCH [...]
Support the Burrup december 2nd
In Darwin at Parliament House on Sunday December 2nd at 1pm our group will join the Global Stand Up for the Burrup. This campaign is to gain UNESCO World Heritage Listing for the Murujuga/Dampier. Please join us. Bring camera and post on facebook. Archipelago estimated to contain more than one million rock engravings (petroglyphs). A [...]
European crisis
Please download this New booklet and order hard copies. Capitalism in Crisis: Europe, Austerity and the Left, 2012 The SEARCH Foundation has published a 112 page booklet which is a collection of recent articles on the political economy and politics of the European expression of the global capitalist crisis. The SEARCH Foundation has produced this [...]
Brand Olympics the worst corporate criminals
As we watch our local TV, sponsors’ ads include gambling, polluting jeeps, duolopy retail and Channel 9! Corporate “Sin-Washing” – Embracing the Olympic Brand Pays Off for Sponsors By Will Dooling Global corporations like Dow Chemical, Adidas, and McDonald’s are paying upwards of $100 million USD to sponsor the 2012 London games and associate themselves [...]
USA: the weather
The Coming Hunger Wars: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest by Michael T. Klare The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America’s counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, [...]
A participatory society
An Open Message to All Who Seek A New and Better World We are members of what is called the the Interim Consultative Committee of the International Organization for a Participatory Society – or IOPS for short. IOPS is actually an interim entity, pending a future founding convention. IOPS was convened just a few months [...]
Class unionism
Australian Unionism Today – Class Unionism? Report 1: to US unions By Chris White July 2012 Australian unionism remains strong, despite relentless corporate and government attacks on the living standards and rights of workers to unionise and struggle over our interests. Campaigning militants are in struggle and in organising union structures. Progressive ACTU policy emerged [...]
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