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Book-Review for Social Democracy After the Cold War, edited by Bryan Evans and Ingo Schmidt, 2012, Edmonton: AU Press – Published on new Socialist, by James Cairns, August 30, 2013.

The nine chapters in the edited collection Social Democracy After the Cold War describe the development of that trend and analyze its relevance for anti-capitalists. It claims to provide “a comprehensive examination of a politics that has come to be identified as the ‘new’ social democracy.” Comprehensive is a bold word and isn’t the best descriptor of a book that offers case studies of social democracy without including chapters on experiences in Southern Europe (think Greece and Portugal) or anywhere on the Asian, African or South American continents.   Continuer la lecture de « The Neoliberalization of Social Democracy »

Volker Pispers: Das politische Elend in Deutschland, 8.31 min, von Deepskies am 27. Juni 2008 hochgeladen: doch, auch heute noch gültig.

a centennial update with additions from long wave theory and Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation – Published on Linke Zeitung (left journal), by Ingo Schmidt, August 15, 2013.

The period of economic and political crises that began with the Wall Street crash in 2007 in many ways resembles the conditions of global capitalism at the time Rosa Luxemburg published her Accumulation of Capital. This article argues that Luxemburg’s political economy entails the theoretical tools necessary to understand capitalist development since the early 20th century and that capitalism indeed faces as great a crisis as it did at that time.   Continuer la lecture de « ROSA LUXEMBURG’S ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL »

Israel: The Raging Grannies Anti Occupation Club (no website found), uploaded by Ogniana Film, May 2013, different dates: All across Israel, the film accompanies 76-year old Hava and her friends – Full Movie Docs:

• in english, 88.49 min;

same film:  Continuer la lecture de « Raging Grannies … »

Published on Labour List.org, August 29, 2013 (see also our new blog: politics for the 99%).

Yesterday we asked you to have your say on how Labour MPs – and the Labour leadership – should act on Syria. 2676 of you have voted in the last 18 hours (our biggest ever response to a LabourList survey). Here are the results:   Continuer la lecture de « UK: LabourList readers want MPs to oppose Syria air strikes »