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Tag Archives: International Monetary Fund
‘We are all Greeks’
From the new March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: ‘We are all Greeks’ On Feb. 12, open rebellion broke out in Athens. “Layoffs! Layoffs…You will save Greece without the Greeks!” protesters proclaimed against the Greek parliament’s approval of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Athens, austerity, capitalist economic crisis, Economy of Greece, European Central Bank, European Union, Eurozone economic crisis, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, Germany, Great Depression, Greece, Greek, indignados, International Monetary Fund, Ireland, Italy, Karl Marx, M15 movement, Manolis Glezos, Occupy Wall Street, Portugal, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Syntagma Square, Tahrir Squares, Unemployment
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Greeks fight austerity
From the November-December 2011 issue of News & Letters: Greeks fight austerity by Gerry Emmett As Greek lawmakers passed a new austerity package on Oct. 19, rage boiled over in cities and towns throughout the country. A two-day general strike … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalist economic crisis, Construction Workers' Union, democracy, Dimitris Kotzaridis, European Central Bank, European Union, Greece, Greek Communist Party, International Monetary Fund, labor, Occupy Athens, Syntagma Square, Tahrir Squares, Unemployment, workers
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European revolts confront economic and political crises
The Lead article from the Jan.-Feb. 2011 issue of News & Letters: European revolts confront economic and political crises by Ron Kelch In one of the biggest demonstrations in Ireland since its revolutionary birth in 1916, 100,000 marched in Dublin … Continue reading
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Tagged banks, capitalism, China, Economic, economic crisis, England, European Central Bank, European Union, France, Government of Ireland, Greece, Gross domestic product, International Monetary Fund, Ireland, Karl Marx, labor, Marxism, News and Letters Committees, Nicolas Sarkozy, strikes, workers
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World food crisis, still
The world food crisis, which was hot in 2008 and then subsided temporarily, is getting worse again. It was one of the factors in Tunisia’s revolution, along with recent revolts in Algeria. The piece below, published in the June-July 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Africa, Ban Ki-moon, biofuels, capitalism, climate change, commodities futures, Economic, ecosocialism, environment, Famine, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, food crisis, food sovereignty, global warming, Haiti, International Monetary Fund, Karl Marx, Marxism, Mexico, peasants, revolution, Socialism, speculation, Terra Preta, Third World, United Nations, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, United States, Via Campesina, world food crisis
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