Social Movements: Resisting, Defending the Rights of Peoples and the Planet, Reinventing the World
originally posted on the Systemic Alternatives website [Español, Français] An important symposium...
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Global Movement Promises to Fight Inequality
22 February 2017, Manila, Philippines – Civil society and grassroots organizations from...
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Systemic Alternatives
A space for dialogue where pluralism of ideas flourish. A platform for cooperative action that...
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Indigenous Ideas about “Living Well” Can Help Heal the Planet
Plato wrote the familiar phrase: “a true creator is necessity, which is the mother of...
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Learning from our Roots, Advancing our Struggles: More Conversations on Vivir Bien
More than 50 representatives from indigenous communities and social organizations in the...
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Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed goals and indicator
by Walden Bello Published by Dialogue. To download the full text click here The article argues...
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Old power brings capitalism to a new level: controlling nature
Expert of Initiative Post Globalization Dorothy-Grace Guerrero after Counter Summit wrote...
Read MoreIt’s Too Late for Sustainability: What We Need is System Change
Nicola Bullard* By trying to find a balance between the present and the future without a fundamental rethinking of development, the Bruntland Commission’s approach to sustainability looks – in hindsight – naïve. Yet at the...
Read MoreRoundtable debate on Asia European relations
Debate between leading European and Asian analysts on the decline of European power, the economic rise of China and India, the likelihood of global recession, climate change and proposed alternatives to the current global...
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‘There is no alternative to socialism’
by SMITU KOTHARI & BENNY KURUVILLA
Interview with Egyptian economist Samir Amin.
SMITU KOTHARI
Samir Amin: “It was the financial corporations that asked the governments to step in and ‘nationalise’ them. The rescue package was drafted by them, and they are in control of most of the bailout money.”
The financial crisis continues to spread rapidly across the world, crippling banks, stock markets and manufacturing industries and leaving hundreds of thousands jobless in its wake. Two days after the much hyped meeting of the Group of 20 in Washington, D.C., economist Samir Amin shared his insights into and analysis of the arduous road ahead for economic globalisation and the urgent need for a course change from capitalism and the possibilities of a new internationalism in the form of a Bandung II initiative.
Read MoreThe Global Economic Crisis: An Historic Opportunity for Transformation
An initial response from individuals, social movements and non-governmental Organisations in support of a transitional programme for radical economic transformation Beijing, 15 October 2008 Preamble Taking advantage of the...
Read MoreCivil society’s choice at the G8 Summit : the road of Genoa or the road of Gleneagles?
By Walden Bello* (Speech at the opening plenary of the People’s Summit, Sapporo Convention Center, Hokkaido, Japan, July 6, 2008.) The Group of Eight came into being in 1975 as the G7 at a time that the world was embroiled in...
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