Jürgen Kaiser, debt expert, reminds us of the agreement that helped Germany, after World War II, to avert a debt trap and calls for a bankruptcy code for sovereign nations on the back of the COVID-19 crisis...
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According to Prof Jayati Ghosh, this is the greatest crisis experienced by the capitalist system; she lays out the direction of policy responses commensurate to what is needed. April 21 , 2020 Produced by Lynn...
The global economic crisis unfolding from the Covid-19 pandemic will once again imperil African countries with the usual mix of commodity export crash and debt meltdown. It is time to recognize that under a...
Richard Kozul-Wright, chief economist of UNCTAD, explains what a Global Green New Deal is about: end austerity, redistribute income, change the credit system and implement a massive investment program. None of...
Transform the economy by subordinating the international financial system to the authority of elected democratic governments and a managed transition to an employment rich green economy advises Ann Pettifor...
“This public-private partnership will permanently associate the UN with transnational corporations, some of whose essential activities have caused or worsened the social and environmental crises that the...
The neoliberal trap the Modi government finds itself in is not just an Indian phenomenon, says India’s eminent economist C.P. Chandrasekhar who explains we are staring at a crisis which is enduring and...
Taking the example of cab-hailing app Uber, the Director of IT for Change says that we will need to go to the heart of what a digital economy is and the role of capital and workers in it if we are to really...
A historic launchpad for neoliberal globalization, global elites once again embrace the World Trade Organization. This time as a “coalition of the willing” launching an initiative of proposed new WTO rules for...
South Africa hosts an event unpacking a WTO ECommerce initiative that far from delivering on a promise of ‘ECommerce for Development’ would deepen digital divides and perpetuate concentrated wealth and power...
Marking the 75 year anniversary of the ILO’s Declaration of Philadelphia, we explore this historic Bill of Rights through the lens of Alain Supiot, author of The Spirit of Philadelphia: Social Justice vs. the...
To mark the 100 year centenary of International Labor Organization and the 75 year anniversary of the Declaration of Philadelphia, we present the full length original footage of Alain Supiot’s 2010 ILO Public...
The alarming rise of poverty in the UK is deliberate – and so too in the US says Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, discussing findings of his final report on the United Kingdom...
The process of globalization has reached a stage where transnational corporate driven governance systems are displacing democracy and nation-states says Harris Gleckman in a 2 part interview unpacking...
No stakeholder-based global governance system comes close to matching the democratic legitimacy of a citizen-based and nation-state-based governance system, says Harris Gleckman, who advocates three...
Responses like xenophobia, nationalism and populism are not going to resolve existential threats, says Roberto Savio, explaining why he thinks multilateralism needs to make a strong comeback April 22, 2019 May...
If Africa as a continent does not have strategic objectives of its own, the history of impediments to African economic development will be repeated in its engagement with China, says Ethiopia’s Alemayehu Geda...
Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era and centralized control of the internet is at the root of current problems – like privacy and monopoly power – and the associated rise of Big...
The international community has the means to redesign the worldwide digital ecosystem to ensure critical functions performed in the digital world uphold the public interest and deliver a safe and inclusive...
An attentive review of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights suggests that 70 years on we have not fully averted the kinds of mistakes that the drafters of the UDHR sought to prevent from ever being...
No major democratic country deals with domestic civil or criminal matters related to human rights based on a voluntary system, explains Harris Gleckman, in an op-ed on the disproportionate power wielded by...
Poverty and destitution in the UK, even among those employed, and harsh government policy ‘solutions’ like punitive ‘job centers’ hit the most vulnerable hardest, including women and people with disabilities...
The British model since 2010, based on ‘austerity’ can be seen as a transfer of resources from the poor to the relatively wealthy, explains UN Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty & Human Rights, Philip...
Corporate hijacking of international public institutions like the World Trade Organization has been denounced by developing countries and activists for decades and today the denunciations are reflected in...
TRNN presents full length documentary footage taken inside the World Trade Organization at the WTO 2018 Public Forum OWINFS session denouncing the WTO rules based order as a world system run by and for the...
Taking an ever rising share of global income the real benefits of global trade go to the profits of the top 2,000 TNCs. The flip-side is falling wages and government revenues says Richard Kozul-Wright...
Think hard about the relevance of the 1948 Havana Charter for addressing the imbalances and inequities of the 21st century global economy says Richard Kozul-Wright noting that with the rise of neoliberalism...
The US is deliberately structuring global Internet governance to ensure unrestricted corporate freedom, favor its own surveillance apparatus and largely deny certain Internet services should be public...
Critical prerequisites like security for public users were missing in the internet’s large scale commercial implementation based on ARPANET technology and are still missing today as the US pushes forward...
Is Capitalism In Crisis? Author of ‘Karl Marx’s Capital & The Present’ Responds – C.P. Chandrasekhar
The fundamental proneness to crisis under capitalism was not overcome in the Golden Age of Capitalism and crisis in the late 1960s ushered in an era of finance by opening new avenues for accumulating wealth...