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It would be easy to pin the blame for the economic meltdown on a few greedy individuals. It's true that a handful of global billionaires and gigantic transnational corporations have artificially inflated and manipulated the values of real estate, high tec...

Unions affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) met in Lisbon in December to discuss the world financial crisis and advance a set of demands. The assembled WFTU affiliates set Wednesday, April 1, 2009 as an international date for wor...

Are liberals in control? Do they really hurt the people they try to help? How you answer depends on your definition of the "L" word. Once, to be a liberal meant to privilege the market over people. So wrote Adam Smith, the guru of capitalism, over two ...

The Communist Manifesto calls for the overthrow of capitalism, and the establishment of socialism. It has four sections. In the first section, it discusses the historical materialist view of history and the relationship between workers and capitalis...

The Communist Manifesto was published for the first time 160 years ago, in London, in February-March 1848. It was commissioned to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels by the 2nd Congress of the Communist League in order to be used as its program. The first ...