March 1, 2008
Jean Batou directs the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and teaches international history there. He has published numerous books and articles on… READ MORE
March 1, 2008
Ricardo Alarcón is president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Cuba’s legislative parliament. He was ambassador to the United Nations (1966–78 and 1990–91) and Cuba’s foreign minister (1992–93). From… READ MORE
January 1, 2008
The victory of the No vote in the Venezuelan constitutional reform referendum in December is being treated by Washington as a major defeat for Chávez’s efforts to promote a socialism… READ MORE
January 1, 2008
Robin Hahnel is professor of economics at American University in Washington DC and currently visiting professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. This article is adapted from a… READ MORE
December 1, 2007
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thorstein Veblen, the greatest critic of U.S. capitalism in the early twentieth century and one of the foremost social theorists… READ MORE
November 1, 2007
Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan’s new book The Age of Turbulence (Penguin 2007) set off a firestorm in mid-September with its dramatic statement on the Iraq War: “I… READ MORE
November 1, 2007
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker graduated from the Latin American studies masters program at the University of California, Berkeley. This article is part of a larger project on workplace democracy and social… READ MORE
September 1, 2007
We have been arguing in these pages for more than three decades that the dominant economic reality of advanced capitalism is a tendency toward stagnation of production accompanied by financial… READ MORE
September 1, 2007
George Ciccariello-Maher is a doctoral candidate in political theory at UC Berkeley, who is writing a dissertation on revolutionary subjectivity in Sorel, Negri, and Fanon. His work has appeared or… READ MORE
September 1, 2007
Claudio Katz teaches economics at the University of Buenos Aires, does research at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research), and is… READ MORE
