#35 - January-June 2004
The socialist project is intrinsically bound up with the feminist project-just as it is with anti-racism-in a number of ways. Perhaps most fundamental is a philosophical commitment to the notion of human equality, understood as the...
The issue of gender and globalization has received increasing attention in recent years, as courses, books and articles have proliferated. But most of the literature on globalization continues to be androcentric, ignoring the centrality...
"We realized that women are not just important at the family level but also in the economic area. Women are present in the economy. They make a contribution to the wealth of the nation and to the GNP."...
There is general agreement on the Left that ‘globalization’ is causing devastating consequences including rising inequality, poverty, polarization, and militarization. There is equal agreement that globalization poses a strategic...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance of some of Marx's methodological insights for thinking about feminist issues and politics in the context of globalization. In the short space available here, I want to set down some...
For decades the Swedish Model was taken as the model of welfare state capitalism. This model, based on a commitment to full employment, centralized wage bargaining, and the principle of universalism, raised Sweden to the...
This paper discusses some of the issues that women's movements and feminist scholarship have had to grapple with over the last three decades. I also discuss some of the many underlying factors that have impinged on feminist activism and...
In a circle under the trees at the dismantled women's tent at the close of the January 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, some 30 feminist leaders representing regional and international networks from around the world...
Essays
Along with critical legal theorist Roberto Mangabeira Unger and others, this essay argues that the institutional and imaginative orders of U.S. society are limited by the legal apparatuses in ways that make social justice difficult to...
"Racism is taking the place of pornography."
-- Jim Goad (James, 208)
In the 1990s a new theory of race came from the U.S. academy. It posited race as a social construction. The...
Report
Having heard so many negative things from the western media about North Korea, I approached my trip to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) with great misgivings. What could I learn in this "Stalinist theme park"-as the BBC...
Activism
Miami is not Seattle. Both cities are beacons of the future, yet they light the way on different economic paths. Seattle, the Emerald City, the city of the new economy, high expectations, high technology and "high-road" capitalism....
Reviews
Anatole Anton, Milton Fisk and Nancy Holmstrom, eds.- Not For Sale: In Defense of Public Goods
Over the last quarter century neoliberalism has emerged...
Eddie Yuen, Daniel Burton-Rose and George Katsiaficas, eds. – The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization
A friend recently suggested that perhaps the most important thing...
Mike Marqusee - Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art
The demand to abandon illusions about our condition is a demand to abandon the conditions...
Steve Martinot – The Rule of Racialization
There are certain optical illusions that are extremely resistant to "demystification"; only by breaking them down into components too small...
Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, eds. – Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict
This edited volume is great for introducing students of Latin America to the case of...
Friedrich Engels – Werke, Artikel, Entwurfe Oktober 1886 Bis Februar 1891 [The Founding of the Second International]
This new volume includes writings, articles, and drafts written by...
Takahisa Oishi – The Unknown Marx: Reconstructing a Unified Perspective
The global Left has shown its mass potential in the demonstrations that tried to head off the US invasion of Iraq. In the Social...
National Lawyers Guild. New York City Chapter – Defend Cuba and the Cuban Five
Peter Roman, People’s Power: Cuba’s Experience With Representative Government, Update Edition
This...
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Carol Barton is Coordinator of the Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ), a global coalition of 40 organizations - NGOs and labor groups - from all regions of the globe, focused on macro-economic...
The socialist project is intrinsically bound up with the feminist project-just as it is with anti-racism-in a number of ways. Perhaps most fundamental is a philosophical commitment to the notion of human equality, understood as the...
The issue of gender and globalization has received increasing attention in recent years, as courses, books and articles have proliferated. But most of the literature on globalization continues to be androcentric, ignoring the centrality...
"We realized that women are not just important at the family level but also in the economic area. Women are present in the economy. They make a contribution to the wealth of the nation and to the GNP."...
There is general agreement on the Left that ‘globalization’ is causing devastating consequences including rising inequality, poverty, polarization, and militarization. There is equal agreement that globalization poses a strategic...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance of some of Marx's methodological insights for thinking about feminist issues and politics in the context of globalization. In the short space available here, I want to set down some...
For decades the Swedish Model was taken as the model of welfare state capitalism. This model, based on a commitment to full employment, centralized wage bargaining, and the principle of universalism, raised Sweden to the...
This paper discusses some of the issues that women's movements and feminist scholarship have had to grapple with over the last three decades. I also discuss some of the many underlying factors that have impinged on feminist activism and...
In a circle under the trees at the dismantled women's tent at the close of the January 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, some 30 feminist leaders representing regional and international networks from around the world...
Essays
Along with critical legal theorist Roberto Mangabeira Unger and others, this essay argues that the institutional and imaginative orders of U.S. society are limited by the legal apparatuses in ways that make social justice difficult to...
"Racism is taking the place of pornography."
-- Jim Goad (James, 208)
In the 1990s a new theory of race came from the U.S. academy. It posited race as a social construction. The...
Report
Having heard so many negative things from the western media about North Korea, I approached my trip to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) with great misgivings. What could I learn in this "Stalinist theme park"-as the BBC...
Activism
Miami is not Seattle. Both cities are beacons of the future, yet they light the way on different economic paths. Seattle, the Emerald City, the city of the new economy, high expectations, high technology and "high-road" capitalism....
Reviews
Anatole Anton, Milton Fisk and Nancy Holmstrom, eds.- Not For Sale: In Defense of Public Goods
Over the last quarter century neoliberalism has emerged...
Eddie Yuen, Daniel Burton-Rose and George Katsiaficas, eds. – The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization
A friend recently suggested that perhaps the most important thing...
Mike Marqusee - Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art
The demand to abandon illusions about our condition is a demand to abandon the conditions...
Steve Martinot – The Rule of Racialization
There are certain optical illusions that are extremely resistant to "demystification"; only by breaking them down into components too small...
Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, eds. – Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict
This edited volume is great for introducing students of Latin America to the case of...
Friedrich Engels – Werke, Artikel, Entwurfe Oktober 1886 Bis Februar 1891 [The Founding of the Second International]
This new volume includes writings, articles, and drafts written by...
Takahisa Oishi – The Unknown Marx: Reconstructing a Unified Perspective
The global Left has shown its mass potential in the demonstrations that tried to head off the US invasion of Iraq. In the Social...
National Lawyers Guild. New York City Chapter – Defend Cuba and the Cuban Five
Peter Roman, People’s Power: Cuba’s Experience With Representative Government, Update Edition
This...
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Carol Barton is Coordinator of the Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ), a global coalition of 40 organizations - NGOs and labor groups - from all regions of the globe, focused on macro-economic...