The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world where vital resources, including food [...]

A veces me persiguen pesadillas: estoy en medio de un campo de refugiados arrasado por los bombardeos, puede ser en el Congo (RDC) o en otro desesperado país en la periferia del interés de los medios. Los chicos corren a mi alrededor con los vientres hinchados, acusando claramente su desnutrición. Muchas [...]

Is transnational capitalism in the process of emerging Over the last 30 years the concept of the globalisation of capitalism has been the focus of great debate. For those, like Wallerstein, Arrighi, Franck and me, who have long argued that historical capitalism has always been globalised, at each stage of its development the sole question to [...]

The battle in Wisconsin over the rights of public-sector workers holds the potential to reawaken workers across the country to demand their fair share of the economic pie. This could be an important turning point. However, if workers are to make real progress they must move to alter the rules of [...]

The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and federal legislative bodies. Let the Christian religion be manipulated by charlatans to demonize Muslims, gays and intellectuals, discredit science and become a source of [...]

Esclavos modernos en los “campos de oro” de Pioneer-Dupont “Caminamos sobre campos de oro” (We walk in Fields of Gold) (1), dice literalmente la canción que acompaña un vídeo en la página web de la productora de semillas Pioneer, propiedad de la multinacional norteamericana DuPont. Y no es extraño que se llenen de [...]

Hace unos meses tuve la mala idea de ir a un cajero automático de noche. Peor aún, escogí uno que se encuentra bastante protegido de las miradas indiscretas de los transeúntes. Eran tres los asaltantes, uno se quedó afuera mientras los otros dos entraban al cajero. Yo estaba guardando el dinero que [...]

“This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, It’s a Kind of a Corporate Coup D’Etat” As a wave of anti-union bills are introduced across the country following the wake of Wall Street financial crisis, many analysts are picking up on the theory that award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein first argued in her [...]

I have walked through the barren remains of Babylon in Iraq and the ancient Roman city of Antioch, the capital of Roman Syria, which now lies buried in silt deposits. I have visited the marble ruins of Leptis Magna, once one of the most important agricultural centers in the Roman Empire, [...]

El pueblo había desaparecido. Filósofos, políticos, analistas: en Occidente todos concordaban en el aburguesamiento de las clases trabajadoras, aunque sólo fuera por los gloriosos años del Estado del bienestar propio de nuestras sociedades desarrolladas. En cuanto a los países en vías de desarrollo, estaba claro que, sometidos como lo estaban [...]