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Mobilisations against Nuclear Power Plants Shut them all down now
It was a sad coincidence: The German anti-nuclear movement had long being planning a huge mobilisation against the decision of the German government to extend considerably the life of the country’s nuclear plants thus to cancel the law, introduced by the former Labour/Green government that they be decommisioned. -> read article... |
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| Economy
A crisis without endAs this article was being completed, two major crises shook capitalism and made the stock markets plunge: the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, together with the debt ceiling cliff-hanger in the United States. It is probable that the governments concerned will resolve these crises, on the brink of disaster. However, three years after the crisis broke out, these serious tensions show that it is far from being resolved and its bill, after having been issued to the public budgets, is now being presented to the people. The aim of this article is to survey the recent trajectory of capitalism and examine its implications for the period opened by the crisis. -> read article... |
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| Economic crisis
Getting to the root causes of the food crisisThe explosion of the economic crisis, the financial crisis and the food crisis in 2007-2008 showed just how interdependent the economies of the world are. These issues remain crucial today so we republish this article by Eric Toussaint written in November 2008. -> read article... |