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The Two Faces of Class Struggle: The Motor Force for Historical Regression or Advance
04.09.2013One of the most important and yet most neglected determinants of the outcomes of the economic crisis and resultant deepening of social inequalities and immiseration is the ‘class struggle’. In one of his most pithy metaphors, Karl Marx referred to class struggle as ‘the motor force of history’.
The Greek Catastrophe: Three Generations of Greek Workers
03.03.2013Introduction: As Greece enters the sixth year of Europe’s worst economic depression, with 30% of its labor force unemployed and over 52% of its youth jobless, the entire social fabric is unraveling; a suicide rate are skyrocketing and close to 80% of the population is downwardly mobile.
Twenty-First Century Imperialism: Militarism, Collaborators And Popular Resistance
02.17.2013Introduction: The configuration of 21st century imperialism combines patterns of exploitation from the past as well as new features which are essential to understanding the contemporary forms of plunder, pillage and mass impoverishment. In this paper we will highlight the relatively new forms of imperial exploitation, reflecting the rise and consolidation of an international ruling class, the centrality of military power, large scale long-term criminality as a key component of the process of capital accumulation, the centrality of domestic collaborator classes and political elites in sustaining the US – EU empire and the new forms of class and anti-imperialist struggles.
“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization
12.03.2012Introduction: By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations.
Entrevista en el programa “Voces del periodista” de ABC Radio, México
Celeste Sáenz de Miera :: 11.17.2012Interview with mexican ABC Radio - Audio in Spanish
London: Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best Criminal Sanctuary Money Can Buy)
10.10.2012Introduction: Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or a bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage economies and drive millions to drink, drugs and destitution they find a suitable secure sanctuary in London.
Notes on Globalization and Class Struggle: Latin America, Europe and Asia
08.19.2012Introduction: The principle axis of the class struggle are found in Latin America, Europe and Asia, each following its own trajectory.
Class Struggle in Present Day Globalized Capitalism
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer :: 08.17.2012Introduction: An examination of the social science scholarship over the past 60 years reveals few, if any, publications discussing ‘the class struggle’ in anything but theoretical expositions.
The Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State
07.13.2012Introduction: The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched police state, linked to the most developed technological innovations.
The Western Welfare State: Its Rise and Demise and the Soviet Bloc
07.04.2012Introduction: One of the most striking socio-economic features of the past two decades is the reversal of the previous half-century of welfare legislation in Europe and North America. Unprecedented cuts in social services, severance pay, public employment, pensions, health programs, educational stipends, vacation time, and job security are matched by increases in tuition, regressive taxation, and the age of retirement as well as increased inequalities, job insecurity and workplace speed-up.
Greece: What Can be Done?
06.16.2012Introduction: Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over 23% unemployment, an astronomical rise in poverty (from less than 15% to over 40%) and mounting suicides, or a rejection of the “memorandum”, and a likely cut-off of Eurozone funding and capital markets with virtually few reserves to cover salaries, pensions or public services.
The Politics of Language and the Language of Political Regression
05.18.2012Capitalism and its defenders maintain dominance through the ‘material resources’ at their command, especially the state apparatus, and their productive, financial and commercial enterprises, as well as through the manipulation of popular consciousness via ideologues, journalists, academics and publicists who fabricate the arguments and the language to frame the issues of the day.
Capitalism in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: From the “Golden” to the Dark Ages of Capitalism
04.23.2012Introduction: The economic, political and social outlook for the second decade of the 21st century is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists, is pessimistic regarding the world economy.
The Rise and Demise of Extractive Capitalism
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer :: 04.07.2012General Propositions: Reprimarization of economy (Rep E) involves a shift from diversified import substitution industrialization to increased dependence on agro-mineral export.
China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power: Some Lessons from the Past
03.06.2012Introduction: The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800.
The “Global Crises of Capitalism”; Whose Crises, Who Profits?
02.18.2012Introduction: From the Financial Times to the far left, tons of ink has been spilt writing about some variant of the “Crises of Global Capitalism”. While writers differ in the causes, consequences and cures, according to their ideological lights, there is a common agreement that “the crises” threatens to end the capitalist system as we know it.
New book by James Petras. Coming soon from Ashgate Publishing… “A World to Win. Beyond Neoliberalism”
Ashgate Publishing :: 11.30.2011The world is at the crossroads of social change, in the vortex of forces that are bringing about a different world, a post-neoliberal state. This groundbreaking book lays out an analysis of the dynamics and contradictions of capitalism in the twenty-first century.
