Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Crisis in the Eurozone, Part II – progressive ways out of the crisis!

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Costas Lapavitsas and his colleagues show in their book Crisis in the Eurozone (Verso, 2012) that it is not German people, who have to pay...
Friday, 21 September 2012

Crisis in the Eurozone, Part I – the fundamental unevenness between core and periphery!

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With their book Crisis in the Eurozone (Verso, 2012) Costas Lapavitsas and his colleagues have accomplished an impressive assessment of t...
Friday, 14 September 2012

Karl Marx and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

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The notion of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ is widely vilified. Often linked to Stalin’s authoritarian rule in the Soviet Union, th...
Thursday, 30 August 2012

Samir Amin, Global Capitalism and the impossibility of developmental catch-up – Part II.

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Is developmental catch-up within the global capitalist system possible? ‘The current success of emerging countries in terms of accelerated...
Friday, 17 August 2012

The precariat – a new class agent for transformation?

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In this blog post, I provide a critical engagement with Guy Standing’s powerful book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury A...
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Monday, 13 August 2012

Samir Amin, free trade in agriculture and the impossibility of developmental catch-up.

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Free trade in agriculture has increasingly become a focus for discussions about a potential path of development for countries in the Globa...
Friday, 3 August 2012

The global economic crisis and the challenges for trade unions in the UK!

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The financial market crisis has led to global economic recession. While many banks were bailed out by governments at high costs, it is now...