Syria: Against the Syrian National Council
Members of the self-proclaimed, US-backed Syrian National Council.
By As‘ad Abukhalil
Malaysian socialists on IWD: For women's liberation, equality and freedom
By Nazreen Nizam, PSM women's desk coordinator
Unity statement by women in the Philippines
China: 'A sixteen-point proposal on China's reform'
By Martin Hart-Landsberg
An exchange on Marx and Engels and 'small is beautiful'
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Lenin: 'democratic, socialist and revolutionary'
March 1, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – Fifty key figures on the left including Ian Angus, John Riddell, Patrick Bond,
After the Durban climate talks: State and market climate failures amplified by civil society failure
By Patrick Bond, Durban
February 28, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- In 2007, former World Bank chief economist Nick Stern termed climate change the worst "market failure" in history – since those who pollute with greenhouse gases are not charged, and since they threaten future generations and vast swathes of natural life – and at that moment, even the 1991 ravings of another former World Bank chief economist, Larry Summers, made sense.
"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up that", according to a memo with Summers’ signature, although actually Summers was a mere plagiarist of Harvard economist Lant Pritchett’s genius, insiders allege.