Notes from the Editors, April 2002
April 1, 2002
As this special issue on the economy goes to the printer, the business press is full of the news that a mild recovery from the recession that began in March… READ MORE
Articles
The New Face of Capitalism: Slow Growth, Excess Capital, and a Mountain of Debt
April 1, 2002
For a long time now, the U.S. economy and the economies of the advanced capitalist world as a whole have been experiencing a slowdown in economic growth relative to the… READ MORE
The Argentine Crisis
April 1, 2002
Joseph Halevi teaches in the Political Economy Discipline at the University of Sydney and is associated with the Institut de Recherches Economiques sur la Production et le Développement (IREPD) at… READ MORE
Argentina: An Alternative Proposal to Overcome the Crisis
April 1, 2002
� “There is no alternative” has always been wishful thinking at best, at worst a deliberate lie, on the part of the ruling powers. From out of the ruins to… READ MORE
Porto Alegre 2002: A Tale of Two Forums
April 1, 2002
James Petras has worked with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for the last eleven years in addition to his work with the unemployed workers movement in Argentina. He is coauthor,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2002
March 1, 2002
In January, with no public discussion and little fanfare, Washington began the first major extension of its “war on terrorism” beyond Afghanistan by sending U.S. troops into the Philippines. The… READ MORE
U.S. Military Bases and Empire
March 1, 2002
The Bases of Empire Empires throughout human history have relied on foreign military bases to enforce their rule, and in this respect at least, Pax Americana is no different than… READ MORE
Understanding the Other Sister: The Case of Arab Feminism
March 1, 2002
Susan Muaddi Darraj is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. Her essays on Arab feminism will appear in forthcoming anthologies from Seal Press and Northeastern University Press, and her… READ MORE
Technology and the Commodification of Higher Education
March 1, 2002
The following article is adapted from David Noble’s new book, Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education, just published by Monthly Review Press. Noble, a professor at York University,… READ MORE
Sweatshop Labor, Sweatshop Movement
March 1, 2002
Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Economy (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2001), 306 pages, $18.00 paper. � Bill fletcher, Jr. is National… READ MORE