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Achieving tactical success without a strategic vision

Gerard Greenfield — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

In the neoliberal ice-age of the early 1980s through to the end of the 1990s, global capitalists and their supporters expressed supreme confidence in their victory over us. This confidence is symbolized in the posters and billboards launched by the Financial Times in the mid-1990s, declaring: "Capitalists of the world unite!"

- IV326 - December 2000 / Economy, Global Justice

Reflections on globalisation

Fausto Bertinotti — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

Secretary of Italy's Party of Communist Refoundation, Fausto Bertinotti has just published a new book called Le idee che non muoiono ("Ideas that do not die"). Believing that the problems approached in this book are of interest to activists in the workers' movement and left intellectuals in other countries, we publish here some extracts.

- IV326 - December 2000 / Italy, Marxism, Global Justice, Reviews

On Fausto Bertinotti's book

Livio Maitan — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

The index of the book that Fausto Bertinotti has just published with his collaborator Alfonso Gianni is revealing of the ambition of the author: Liberty - equality - work - value- need - communism.

- IV326 - December 2000 / Italy, Marxism, Global Justice, Reviews

Seoul: a new stage in the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation

Éric Toussaint — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

The mobilisations at the 3rd Asia-Europe Summit (ASEM) which met on October 20 and 21, 2000 in Seoul (South Korea), represented a new stage in the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation.

- IV326 - December 2000 / Asia, Social Forum

The Nice summit or a superpower in search of a leadership

François Vercammen — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

Nervousness reigns in the highest European spheres as the Nice summit approaches. The Danish setback has been followed a series of failures.

- IV326 - December 2000 / Europe

Fundamental social rights at risk

Marie-Paule Connan — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

Ask a cook to make you an apple tart with some leeks, some potatoes and a vegetable mill. They'll tell you it's impossible and leave you high and dry with your non-conformist ingredients. But in the European kitchen things don't happen that way and this is very much the case with the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights.

- IV326 - December 2000 / Europe

Uprising of workers and youth overthrows Milosevic regime

Radoslav Pavlovic — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

The overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic on October 5 marks a new stage in Balkan history. The state of mind in Serbia has changed from top to bottom. Nothing will be as it was before.

- IV326 - December 2000 / Serbia

Ten days that shook Serbia

Catherine Samary — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

A fundamental obstacle fell on October 5 for those who want to establish a genuine "left". The whole day had been marked more by jubilation than by confrontations.

- IV326 - December 2000 / Serbia

Trotsky and culture

Michel Lequenne — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

Is the recent republication of a French edition of Leon Trotsky's "Literature and Revolution" a sign of a resurgence of interest in Trotsky in our epoch of (anything but innocent) confusion between Bolshevism and Stalinism?

- IV326 - December 2000 / Trotsky

Prague: Joint Declaration - 28 September 2000

2000-11-10T00:00:00Z

We, the members of non-governmental and community-based organisations from different parts of the world, gathered in Prague and signing this statement, note the unprecedented early suspension of the 2000 annual general meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Given the number of scheduled sessions, including meetings with non-governmental organisations, that will evidently be cancelled, the claim that they have simply finished their business rings hollow.

- IV325 - November 2000 / Global Justice