Globalisation – Sozialistische Klassiker

Robin Clapp: Global Myths

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 7, April 1996, p. 15-18] ‚Globalisation‘ is the buzzword of the 1990s. But is the international economy really ‚globalised‘? Have the vast daily movements of capital across national borders swept all before them? Can national governments and the world labour movement do anything to resist the relentless forward march of transnational corporations?…

Tony Saunois: Latin America’s Tequila Hangover

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 26-28] As the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s receded, Latin America once again showed signs of economic growth – there was even talk of Latin America joining the ‚first world‘ of advanced countries. But the Mexican financial crash has revealed how brittle these claims were. Tony…

Peter Taaffe: Crushing the workers in the Export Processing Zones

Juni 1, 2025

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(Socialism Today No 10, July 1996) Behind the Wire – Anti-Union Repression in the Export Processing Zones. Published by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), 1996. Reviewed by Peter Taaffe. This booklet is a companion report to the ICFTU publication World’s Apart – Women and the Global Economy, reviewed in last month’s issue…

Peter Taaffe: Never Done – Women’s Work and the Feminisation of Poverty

Mai 28, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No. 9 June 1996] Peter Taaffe reviews World’s Apart – Women and the Global Economy (1996), a report by Natacha David for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). „In export processing zones throughout the world there is a marked preference for young unmarried women, and it is made very clear to…

Lynn Walsh: Capitalism’s Economic and Political Crisis

Dez. 5, 2024

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[Socialism Today, No 32, October 1998, p. 8-15] Russia’s economic collapse at the end of August, one more broken link in the chain of international crisis, marked a qualitative turning-point. Bourgeois strategists were at last forced to confront the stark reality facing them, writes Lynn Walsh Asia, whose inter-regional and external trade makes up a…

Schlagwort: Globalisation

Robin Clapp: Global Myths

Tony Saunois: Latin America’s Tequila Hangover

Peter Taaffe: Crushing the workers in the Export Processing Zones

Peter Taaffe: Never Done – Women’s Work and the Feminisation of Poverty

Lynn Walsh: Capitalism’s Economic and Political Crisis