Tag Archives: Capitalist crisis

Workers control

Posted 02 December 2009 | By chriswhite | Categories: Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Workers Rights | No Comments

How Workers Run Argentina’s “Recuperated Workplaces” From Global Labor Strategies In a previous post, we described the process by which workers in 200 workplaces in Argentina occupied their workplaces and began running them themselves. In this post we will examine how the workplaces are actually run and how their workers are dealing with the managerial, [...]

Pensions and Superannuation

Posted 15 May 2009 | By chriswhite | Categories: Capitalist Financial Crisis | 1 Comment

Pensions and Superannuation from the Search Foundation. What has happened? Total estimated superannuation assets decreased by 7.6 per cent in the period October December 2008 to $1.05 trillion. Over the 12 months to December 2008, there was a 14.8 per cent decrease. That is a loss of $183.3 billion in a year, with the biggest [...]

Talk on capitalism’s ills

Posted 21 April 2009 | By chriswhite | Categories: Capitalist Financial Crisis, Social justice | No Comments

Michael Lebowitz marxist economist on ills of capitalism. http://links.org.au/node/995 Lebowitz is part of the US Monthly Review group, that I recommend. On this blog I recommend a reading of his Path to Human Development Capitalism or Socialism? Here it is published in MRP http://www.monthlyreview.org/090223lebowitz.php