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Women’s oppression in globalizationThe existence of women’s oppression pre-dates not only globalization, but also capitalism itself. Moreover, due to its specific characteristics, the consequences that globalization exerts on it are not a foregone or one-sided conclusion. Globalization implies an unequal and different extension of capitalist production relations, in the north and the south alike. Today, women are at the heart of this process. To grasp its complexity, we must review the specific nature of gender oppression, and the particular means by which it interplays with the capitalist mode of production. -> read article... |
| Obituary
Livio Maitan 1923-2004Italian revolutionary socialist and long time leading member of the Fourth International, Livio Maitan has died. -> read article... |
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| World Social Forum
Reflections on the Indian processThe fourth World Social Forum was held in Mumbai in January 2004. Moving it from Porto Alegre to a different continent in which the social forum movement was less developed and much more disparate, and notably to the specific political situation in India, was a real challenge - successfully met. -> read article... |