Globalization and Stagnation MacEwan discusses the economic conditions of world capitalism, and problems related to globalization. 1. The current neoliberal globalization is not the same as the general, historical spread of capitalism. 2. When globalization has been associated with rapid growth, that growth has had historically specific causes and cannot be attributed to globalization per […]
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Bogdan Denitch
Democracy and the World Order: Dilemmas and Conflicts The prospects for democracy at the close of the 20th century are perilous. In an increasingly unified world system, it is no longer possible to write about the prospects for democracy except on a world scale. It cannot be a precious entity reserved for the rich First […]
Dave Broad
Globalization and the Casual Labor Problem: History and Prospects Dave Broad analyzes the structural transformation of the world labor market, including the growing prominence of part-time or temporary work, cost cutting through massive layoffs, subcontracting in the informal economy, and outsourcing from the developed centers to the Third World. Broad argues that full-time work does […]
Environmental Victims, Vol. 23: 4, 1996
Edited by Christopher Williams This issue examines environmentally mediated injury and seeks to change the perception of those who suffer from that of sick patients who are simply in need of treatment, to one of “environmental victims” who deserve justice. It reflects a wide range of interested parties and national perspectives, with academic contributors, frontline […]
John Saxe-Fernández
NAFTA: The Intersection of the Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Capital This analysis of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) compares it to earlier experiments in geopolitical and geoeconomic “enlargement” that were tested in the long period between the establishment of a new world order based on the Treaty of Versailles and the emergence of […]
Kim Geron
The Local/Global Context of the Los Angeles Hotel-Tourism Industry Kim Geron describes institutional alliances taking place in the transnational landscape. The author puts forth the notion of social movement unionism as a response by labor unions and community groups to the internationalization of their economic institutions. social movement unionism, hotel-tourism industry, Los Angeles Citation: Social […]
Leo Panitch
Globalization, States, and Left Strategies This article attempts to address the challenge posed to the Left by what has come to be known as “globalization.” The apparent subjection of even advanced capitalist social formations in recent decades to the competitive logics and exigencies of production, trade, and finance undertaken on a world scale is treated […]
Pablo Gonzalez Casanova
Globalism, Neoliberalism, and Democracy Finding an alternative to neoliberalism is a moral, political, and social problem and is the most important intellectual problem confronting the social sciences of our time. The alternative to the neoliberal state will be a social democracy that differs from the welfare state, the populist state, or “real socialism.” It will […]
Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández
Preface to ‘The World Today’ In December 1993, the center for interdisciplinary research in the Sciences and Humanities of the National University of Mexico organized a seminar entitled “The World Today: Situation and Alternatives.” Its task was to examine the central concerns and problems facing humanity in the final stage of the 20th century, beginning […]
Racial and Political Justice, Vol. 22: 3, 1995
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue speaks to attacks on political justice in the form of resurgent racism at home, as well as genocide and patterns of “ethnic cleansing” abroad. With the realignment of power in the United States over the last two decades, the Democrats effectively abandoned the historic demand for civil rights. This demand […]
Ralph Miliband
The New World Order and the Left Given the disintegration of the Soviet Union, an altered world order came into beign, with some significant new features. The “market economy,” capitalism, took command of the field, on a worldwide scale and there is now no effective counterweight to U.S. and Western predominance in international relations. Yet […]
Samir Amin
The Future of Global Polarization This article argues that history since antiquity has been characterized by social inequality. Yet it is only in the modern era that polarization has become the immanent by-product of the integration of the entire planet into the capitalist system. Modern capitalist polarization has appeared in successive forms during the evolution […]
The World Today, Vol. 23: 1-2, 1996
Edited by Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández This special 375-page collection includes contributions on the world situation on every continent in the final stage of the 20th century. Given the failure of social democracy, real socialism, and the nationalism of the poor countries, the goal was not only to describe the world today, but […]
Vol. 46-1 – Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making
Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making edited by Suzy Kim, Gwyn Kirk, and M. Brinton Lykes This issue presents a critical exploration of women’s past contributions and future potential in making peace. Adopting a transnational perspective, the contributors highlight the various ways in which women seeking a just peace have organized against militarized patriarchy and its forms […]
Vol. 47-1/2
Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS In the Sites of Operation Condor: Memory and Afterlives of Clandestine Detention Centers Michael Welch Rounding Up the Undesirables: The Making of a Prostitution-Targeted Loitering Law in New York City Karen Struening Social Movements in Juvenile Prisons: An Investigation Alexandra L. Cox Exhausting People, Extracting Revenue: Police, Prisons, and Counterinsurgency Matthew […]
Vol. 48-1
Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Police Abolition as Community Struggle against State Violence Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land & Kevin Walby [read blog by the authors] What Works and What Doesn’t When Policing People with Mental Health Issues Jerry Flores & Joyce Chua On the Outs: Global Capitalism and Transcarceration Oscar Fabian Soto [read blog by the author] […]