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No Room to Move
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No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes.
By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles


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The Buck Stops Here? Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 5 August, 2009 - 10:47
Daniel Berchenko

Amidst late-noughties currency fluctuation, Daniel Berchenko considers the history of the dollar's haphazard rise to global currency standard, its geopolitical consequences and the difficulty of breaking its hold

 

 


Interns are workers and should be paid! On Alan Milburn's Social Mobility Report News & Analysis
Submitted by Carrotworkers on Friday, 31 July, 2009 - 12:51
Carrot Workers Collective

We welcome the report of the panel on fair access to the professions (chaired by Alan Milburn), waggishly entitled Unleashing Aspiration[1]


White blue eyed bankers have brought the world economy to its knees Public Library
Submitted by davem on Friday, 3 April, 2009 - 19:48
Dave Miller

President Lula said it was completely unfair that the poorest people in the world were suffering most for the mistakes of wealthy, Western financiers. 

This was a crisis that was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of people that are white, blue-eyed, that before the crisis looked like they knew everything about economics,’ he declared. 


Debt: The First Five Thousand Years Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 10 February, 2009 - 17:08
David Graeber

Anthropologist David Graeber argues that it is only with a general historical understanding of debt and its relationship to violence that we can begin to appreciate our emerging epoch. Here he begins to fill in our historical knowledge gap

 


More noise, more self-respect, more daring News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 3 September, 2008 - 20:07
Wildcat

Firsthand account translated from Wildcat issue 81 (original article at: http://www.wildcat-www.de/wildcat/81/w81_dacia.htm) of the Romanian Renault/Dacia strike earlier this year, which forced wage increases of 30-40% and, in the context of a migration-induced labour shortage, inaugurated a strike wave which has since hit Constanta port and ArcelorMittal. More reports from Romania forthcoming.


The crisis of the global economy News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 00:56
Vasily Koltashov (Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow)

An endless series of Experts have recycled their opinions in Credit Crisis Anniversary-Festschriften over the last few weeks, but this one from the Moscow Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (www.igso.ru) actually has a historical perspective stretching beyond the calendar year. Good account of consumer credit gigantism as short-term supplement to 30 years of falling real wages in the 'old' industrial world, and of high commodity prices as effect rather than cause of inflation (i.e. more money 'created' than commodities produced).


Backstage at a Bank Funeral: Feds Swoop In on an Unsuspecting Town OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by ewelke on Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 - 15:43
Damian Paletta


In a time of credit crisis, small to medium bank branches are failing, forcing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to go in and clean up the mess. Coming in stealthily to avoid public panic and sudden withdrawal of all a bank’s funds, which would result in a sinking of the bank and possibly others in the area, the FDIC makes a quick job of taking over the bank.


How should the Middle East invest its oil profits? OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 - 20:50
Michael Hudson

Short article from Bahrain weekly 'The Gulf' in which the author of 'Super Imperialism' and 'Global Fracture' makes what is hardly the 'modest proposal' he pretends it is, and perhaps also gives a clue as to what he thought he was doing as 'economic adviser' to Denis Kucinich's presidential run. Hudson proposes that an unspecified bloc of 'Middle Eastern' state-capital should try to settle the dollar-standard blackmail once and for all by offering to buy the US out of the military infrastructure (i.e.


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