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The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
By Istvan Meszaros
Monthly Review Press, 2008
480 pages, $59.49
The article below is a statement released on February 16 by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) in France on the situation in the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, which are still French-run colonies (French Antilles). It is reprinted from .
World food production will decrease by as much as 25% by 2050 due to 鈥渆nvironmental breakdowns鈥 associated with climate change, according to the United Nations.
From December 2008 to January 2009, activists travelled to Cuba for the Southern Cross Solidarity Brigade from Australia and New Zealand, organised by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society. Resistance member Ash Pemberton was in Cuba for the 50th anniversary of the triumph of the revolution. He spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Jay Fletcher.From December 2008 to January 2009, activists travelled to Cuba for the Southern Cross Solidarity Brigade from Australia and New Zealand, organised by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and others on the Italian right have had much to say recently about various medical matters.
The article below is an abridged editorial published by the US Socialist Worker on February 18. Visit .
聯Today we opened wide the gates of the future 聟 Truth against lies [and] the dignity of the homeland has triumphed聰, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez insisted to tens of thousands of celebrating supporters after Venezuelans voted to amend the constitution to end term limits on all elected politicians 聴 allowing Chavez to stand for re-election in 2012.
If the gloomy predictions are to be believed, this crisis of capitalism will potentially prove worse than that of the 1930s Great Depression.