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!"
Reflections on globalisation
10 December 2000, bySecretary 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.
On Fausto Bertinotti’s book
10 December 2000, byThe 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.
Seoul: a new stage in the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation
10 December 2000, byThe 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.
The Nice summit or a superpower in search of a leadership
10 December 2000, byNervousness reigns in the highest European spheres as the Nice summit approaches. The Danish setback has been followed a series of failures.
Fundamental social rights at risk
10 December 2000, byAsk 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.
Uprising of workers and youth overthrows Milosevic regime
10 December 2000, byThe 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.
Ten days that shook Serbia
10 December 2000, byA 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.
Trotsky and culture
10 December 2000, byIs 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?
