Richard Sennett on trade unions, life narratives, and our financial times
Matt Kennard — April 21, 2010 1 Comment
MK: Are you talking about the current crisis?
RS: Yeah. I think this is not just going to be a simple thing of throwing some money at things in a normal business cycle. It’s graver than that, and it’s your generation that will have to sort that out, I’ll be retired. The serious thing is what to do about this. The system can’t hold together
Editor's Pick, Politics, Psychology
Bolivia guiding the world to socialism
Roger Burbach — April 6, 2010 1 Comment
During the past decade Latin America has become a scene of hope and expectations as its leaders and social movements have raised the banner of 21st century socialism in a world ravished by imperial adventures and economic disasters. Proponents of the new socialism assert that it will break with the state-centered socialism of the last century, and will be driven by grassroots social movements that construct an alternative order from the bottom up
Editor's Pick, Politics
The people of Bolivia are rising and provide us with hope
Matt Kennard — March 11, 2010 0 Comments
The backbone of Morales’s reform programme was the creation of a new Bolivian constitution, which was ratified by a public referendum in 2009. Morales has signalled that he will make the implementation of the new constitution his main legislative priority at the start of his second term. In a country that is often compared to apartheid South Africa, as the stark divisions of poverty and inequality are marked along racial lines, this constitution represents Bolivia’s Freedom Charter
Politics, Resistance
Interview: Bolivian ambassador to the UK, Maria Beatriz Souviron
Matt Kennard — January 10, 2010 3 Comments
Ambassador Maria Beatriz Souviron talks about socialism, Evo Morales, climate change and spreading the indigenous revolution
Politics
Interview: Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, on socialism, America, and the future of humanity
Matt Kennard — March 13, 2009 4 Comments
Matt Kennard talks to the most eminent sociologist in the world, Zygmunt Bauman.
Politics
It’s time for a democratization of the economic system
Joe Hargrave — December 19, 2008 22 Comments
Political democracy is a recent accomplishment of humanity; now our energy must concentrate on democratizing the economic system in a similar vein.