QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino A specter is badly needed today, the specter of communism. It is not enough to expose the evils of capitalism; we must offer and revive a leftwing alternative. To borrow a few words from a philosopher, we have already interpreted capitalism in various ways – the point however is to change…
By William J. Astore TomDispatch.com/Truthout?International Posted by Bulatlat.com Kleptocracy — now, there’s a word I was taught to associate with corrupt and exploitative governments that steal ruthlessly and relentlessly from the people. It’s a word, in fact, that’s usually applied to flawed or failed governments in Africa, Latin America, or the nether regions of Asia.…
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Silage Choppers & Snake Spirits By Dao-yuan Chou Edited by Juliet de Lima-Sison Published by IBON Foundation Inc. 466 pages MANILA — The new book Silage Choppers & Snake Spirits by Dao-yuan Chou could not have burst upon the Philippine scene at a more appropriate time. “This year, 2009, would…
Contribution to the Forum on the Global and Financial Crisis on 30 January 2009 at De Balie, Amsterdam It is of utmost importance for the working class and the rest of the people exploited by the system of monopoly capitalism to discuss and clarify to themselves what they can and must do about the current…
The pro-Chavez United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won 72 percent of the governorships in the November 23, 2008 elections and 58 percent of the popular vote, dumbfounding the predictions of most of the pro-capitalist pollsters and the vast majority of the mass media who favored the opposition. BY JAMES PETRAS INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat…