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Zimbabwe cuts budget to make way for pro-business reforms
March 20, 2009Original source: Zimbabwe's new finance minister slashed the country's 2009 budget and announced a raft of pro-big business reforms after talks with the International Monetary Fund. Tendai Biti, who took office last month when his Western-backed...
Read moreCOMMENTARY: Communism: a viable alternative?
March 20, 2009(Reposted from the Machester Guradian guardian.co.uk) Let's get one thing out of the way to begin with: history is back in fashion. A generation on from Francis Fukuyama's claim that the fall of the Soviet Union...
Read moreGeneral strike in France to protest economic crisis
March 20, 2009On 19 March 2009 millions of French workers led by the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) went on strike to protest President Nicholas Sarkozy's handling of the global financial crisis in France. According to the Agence...
Read moreAngry about AIG? Here’s how you can do something about it
March 20, 2009Original source: By now you heard that AIG is handing out massive bonus checks to some of its employees, the same ones that brought the company to the point of needing a bailout in the first...
Read moreGlobal labors forgotten plan to fight the Great Depression
March 20, 2009Original source: In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public...
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