International
World unions: Time for a global economic fix is now
November 18, 2008Unions representing workers in the 20 most economically powerful nations called on world leaders Nov. 14 to take urgent action to prevent a global depression by radically changing the way the global economy is run and...
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Pakistan’s Home Workers’ Union starts paying off
November 16, 2008LAHORE, Pakistan (WOMENSENEWS)--Asia Afzal, 35, wipes her forehead with the corner of her duputta scarf as beads of perspiration gather on her face. In her two-room house, a solitary ceiling fan is still due to the...
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Inject people’s demands into economy, not just liquidity
November 16, 2008Original source: People's Democracy Discussions of the current world economic crisis tend to focus exclusively on the bursting of the housing bubble in the United States. This no doubt is the immediate cause of the crisis,...
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What Cubans expect from Obama
November 16, 2008Original source: CubaNews As expected, Barack Obama's electoral win has raised new questions all over the world given the United States of America's place in the current system of international relations. We would be hard pressed...
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Israel and the current capitalist crisis
November 13, 2008The financial crisis does not skip over Israel. The country that has been integrating itself in global capitalist markets in the last few decades is once again seeing the ugliest side of capitalism, as the stock...
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