The liquidity crisis currently wiping billions off global stock markets is just the tip of a very big iceberg. Beneath the credit crunch and incipient insolvency crisis lie the economic and political crisis of the USA’s global reign, claims Loren Goldner. But will this mean global depression, wars and intensified authoritarianism, or a renewed opportunity for communism? Goldner returns to the theories of Marx and Luxemburg to examine today's financial and military imperialism, and its left wing ‘anti-imperialist’ mirror

The Counterpunch video interview with Peter Linebaugh is at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/ruspoli03142007.html

This year’s prize for best long-titled left communist analysis of an American literary classic goes hands down to Loren Goldner’s Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne And The Antemosaic Cosmic Man – Race, Class And The Crisis Of Bourgeois Ideology In An American Renaissance Writer

East Art Map – the book – is part of an ambitious interactive project to ‘(re)construct’ the history of contemporary art in Eastern Europe.

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Reggae by Jah Youth Roots Ambassador & Guest Sounds, West Indian Food by Jah Spirit.

For weeks, the English speaking public has been treated to the spectacle of a fraternal falling out between authors Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, caused by Amis’s book Koba The Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, a self-declared critique of communism. Tired of the circularity of the media ‘row’, for this week’s Webexclusive we asked Stewart Home to dig a little deeper…