In Bolivia, Morales faces a challenge from below

Thumbnail image for In Bolivia, Morales faces a challenge from below by Jerome Roos May 21, 2013 Development & Dependency

An ongoing two-week strike by miners, teachers and health workers exposes the contradictions at the heart of Morales’ “Andean and Amazonian capitalism”.

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Why Europe can’t just “fix” youth unemployment

Thumbnail image for Why Europe can’t just “fix” youth unemployment by Jerome Roos May 14, 2013 Capitalism & Crisis

Our problems are not due to a lack of innovative ideas; they are due to an excess of financial power concentrated in the hands of an elite of bankers.

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New report: no austerity for EU military spending

Thumbnail image for New report: no austerity for EU military spending by ROAR Collective May 11, 2013 Capitalism & Crisis

High levels of military spending played a key role in the unfolding European sovereign debt crisis — and continue to undermine efforts to resolve it.

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Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright

Thumbnail image for Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright by ROAR Collective May 10, 2013 Capitalism & Crisis

In a grandiose display of Foucauldian irony, one of the greatest anti-capitalist debates of our time has been reduced to an intellectual commodity.

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The Greek workers who took inspiration from Argentina

Thumbnail image for The Greek workers who took inspiration from Argentina by ROAR Collective May 9, 2013 People & Power

Drawing inspiration from the Recovered Factories Movement in Argentina, the Vio.Me factory in Greece has begun production under worker self-management.

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Now online: the historic Chomsky-Foucault debate

Thumbnail image for Now online: the historic Chomsky-Foucault debate by Tamara van der Putten May 8, 2013 Intellectuals & Ideology

Excerpts from the Foucault-Chomsky debate on human nature and power have circulated online for years — now it’s available in full for the first time.

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The City at a Time of Crisis: research project on Athens

Thumbnail image for The City at a Time of Crisis: research project on Athens by ROAR Collective May 8, 2013 Capitalism & Crisis

A collective of researchers, photographers and filmmakers comes together to launch a powerful new multimedia research project on the crisis in Athens.

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IMF chief Lagarde heckled by students in Amsterdam

Thumbnail image for IMF chief Lagarde heckled by students in Amsterdam by Jerome Roos May 7, 2013 People & Power

Dutch, Greek and Spanish members of the Occupy movement interrupt a lecture by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at the University of Amsterdam.

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Financial Empire and the global debtors’ prison

Thumbnail image for Financial Empire and the global debtors’ prison by Jerome Roos May 6, 2013 Capitalism & Crisis

Financial Empire may have reduced us all to debt prisoners, but we can still become the social protagonists of history’s greatest-ever prison break.

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The true meaning(lessness) of the Reinhart-Rogoff debacle

Thumbnail image for The true meaning(lessness) of the Reinhart-Rogoff debacle by Jerome Roos April 29, 2013 Intellectuals & Ideology

Sadly, economic policy is guided by neither facts nor ideas — it is guided by power. Ending austerity will require more than Excel spreadsheets alone.

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