World economy & globalisation
US: The Fall of Fannie and Freddie: Symptom of growing crisis in world capitalism
Bush regime lurches from neo-liberalism to state intervention
Lynn Walsh, Editor Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party England and Wales – CWI), Friday 18 July 2008
World Economy: False ‘gods’ of a failing system
Reviews of ‘The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future’ by Dan Atkinson & Larry Elliot
Review by Peter Taaffe (from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI) England and Wales), Tuesday 24 June 2008
World Economy: Oil price shock - The chaos of capitalism
Price of petroleum is set in casinos of finance capitalism
Lynn Walsh, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (England and Wales), Wednesday 11 June 2008
World Economy : A crisis foretold
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, By Charles R Morris
Book review by Lynn Walsh, Editor Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) , Thursday 5 June 2008
World Food Crisis: Total Failure of Capitalism
Workers and Poor Masses Should Struggle for Socialist Alternative
Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement, CWI Nigeria, Lagos, Monday 28 April 2008
Economy: World food crisis
Price hikes produce poverty and rebellion
Robert Bechert, CWI, London, Wednesday 23 April 2008
Economy: Rebirth of Keynesianism?
A review of the latest book by economist and commentator Paul Krugman, ‘Conscience of a Liberal’
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales, Monday 21 April 2008
World Economy: Bear Stearns bail-out
A new stage of the crisis
Lynn Walsh, Editor Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party – CWI in England and Wales), Thursday 3 April 2008
World Economy: Global capitalism’s deepening crisis
US sliding into recession
Lynn Walsh, Editor, Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), Wednesday 27 February 2008
World economy: A global shock to the system
Global capitalism faces its worst crisis since 1945.
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party, Monday 28 January 2008
World economy: Why have food prices reached a record high?
Price hikes cause riots and struggles for higher pay
Per-Åke Westerlund, Offensiv, (CWI Sweden), Monday 14 January 2008
World Economy: Credit crunch threatens global downturn
The global capitalist economy has been hit by a major credit crunch.
Editorial from October issue of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), Monday 1 October 2007
World economy: Fundamentally unsound
Over the last week, billions of pounds have been wiped off share values worldwide as stock markets plunged.
Editorial, The Socialist newspaper, Socialist Party (England and Wales), Thursday 23 August 2007
World economy: $4.5 trillion wiped from global stock markets in a month
Implosion of US ’sub-prime’ housing bubble goes global
Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, cwi Sweden, Stockholm, Thursday 23 August 2007
World economy: Forever blowing bubbles? What is happening to the world economy?
Financial bubbles and the overaccumulation of capital. 6,300 words.
Lynn Walsh, Editor, Socialism Today, Friday 16 May 2007
Neo-Colonial World: Micro credits founder wins Nobel prize
Can poor loans system end poverty and hunger?
Mass poverty increases, Thursday 4 January 2007
World poverty: The wealth gap widens
Capitalism creates grotesque inequalities
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), Wednesday 20 December 2006
World economy: ‘Correction’ or crash?
IN THE second week of May there was a convulsion in the world financial system.
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party, Friday 2 June 2006
World Economy: Peak Oil
The world economy today is hooked on fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.
Bill Hopwood, Socialist Party, Wednesday 31 May 2006
World Economy: Speculative activity surges in the global economy
Intensified speculation a symptom of approaching crisis in the world capitalist economy.
Lynn Walsh, editor Socialism Today, Sunday 24 April 2005
World economy: Profits soar while wages fall
Ruthless capitalism offers a bleak future
Peter Taaffe, cwi, London, Friday 22 April 2005
World economy: A new oil crisis
The price of oil has surged during 2004, after a period of relatively low prices.
Lynn Walsh, cwi, 16 November 2004
World economy: The US economy ‘running on fumes’
Bush and other world capitalist leaders face turbulent period
Lynn Walsh, Editor, Socialism Today, 12 November 2004
Black gold rush and casino capitalism
A 'black gold' rush is in full swing.
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party, 22 October 2004
Debt relief: Empty words from Bush, Blair and G7
Finance Ministers and central bank chiefs from the seven richest imperialist states, the G7, meet in Washington at the start of October.
Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, cwi Sweden, 2 October 2004
World economy: New shocks cast cloud over recovery
World economy is flying on one engine
Robin Clapp, Socialist Party, England and Wales, 24 May 2004
World currencies: Turbulent times ahead?
Economists grasp at any sign of revival in US and world economy.
Lynn Walsh, 2 March 2004
Will there be a recovery?
CAN US capitalism pull the world economy out of its present stagnation?
Lynn Walsh, 15 October 2003
A synchronised crisis
The world economy is on the edge of a prolonged period of stagnation.
Per Olsson, Stockholm, 7 April 2003
Is war good for business?
FINANCE MINISTERS from the seven largest economies in the world met recently to debate how to revive the sick world economy.
From The Socialist, 16 March 2003.
Environment: Planning green growth
A socialist contribution to the debate on environmental sustainability. 14,000 words.
Pete Dickenson, Socialist Party, England and Wales. 20 August 2002.
Earth summit: Capitalism is unsustainable
WORLD 'LEADERS' are preparing a global publicity stunt - the World Summit on Environment and Development.
Manny Thain, 20 August 2002. From The Socialist
World economy: Scandals rock world financial system
"The credit system appears as the main lever of overproduction and over speculation in commerce solely because the process of reproduction, which is elastic in its nature, is here forced to its extreme limits.
Peter Taaffe, CWI, 9 July 2002
Worldcom fraud: Capitalism is a bankrupt system
THE US, the most powerful economy in the world, responsible for a third of world output, is reeling with shock.
Jim Horton
War in Afghanistan, the Economic Aftermath
The atrocious attacks on New York’s twin towers were aimed at an iconic symbol of US wealth and economic domination.
Lynn Walsh, 29 September 2001
World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks... The Political and Economic Aftershocks - A Socialist Analysis
The carnage in New York and Washington DC resulting from the suicide attacks of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon is a world event like no other before.
CWI Statement, 14 September 2001
The world economy and class struggle
Genoa and the worsening world economic situation necessitate that the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) fully takes stock of the present general economic, social and political situation in order to prepare our members and wider layers of activists to intervene in the stormy events which loom.
International Secretariat, CWI. 1 September 2001
World economy: Here comes the slump
The mass demonstration in Genoa and the last general strike in Argentina are indications of the tumultuous years ahead.
Per Olsson, 10 August 2001
Smash the IMF and World Bank! A socialist alternative to global capitalism
This pamphlet, produced by the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), is an edited and updated version of a pamphlet published by Socialist Alternative, the CWI's organisation in the US.
September 2000
The threat of a financial meltdown Mark II
This is an update on the world economy, a brief supplement to the CWI statement "Crisis of global capitalism", dated February 1998.
1 June 1998
A Crisis of Global Capitalism
World capitalism is moving into a new, synchronised downturn.
9 February 1998
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