February 1, 2007
Foreword In the 2006 presidential election campaign in Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula), leader of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT or Workers’ Party), was interviewed… READ MORE
February 1, 2007
Rosa Maria Marques teaches political economy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Paulo Nakatani (pnakatani [at] uol.com.br) teaches economics and social policy at the Federal University of Espírito… READ MORE
February 1, 2007
Rosa Maria Marques teaches political economy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Áquilas Mendes teaches economics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and Fundação Armando Alvares… READ MORE
February 1, 2007
Daniela Magalhães Prates teaches economics at the State University of Campinas in São Paulo. Leda Maria Paulani teaches economics at the University of São Paulo and is president of the… READ MORE
February 1, 2007
Fabrício Augusto de Oliveira (fabricioaugusto [at] hotmail.com) teaches economics at the Fundação João Pinheiro. Paulo Nakatani (pnakatani [at] uol.com.br) teaches economics and social policy at the Federal University of Espírito… READ MORE
February 1, 2007
João Pedro Stedile is a member of the national board of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) and of Via Campesina–Brasil. � � Introduction � Since Fernando Collor’s… READ MORE
January 1, 2007
Richard D. Vogel (irvogel [at] aim.com) is an independent socialist writer. He is the author of Stolen Birthright: The U.S. Conquest of the Mexican People 1. Introduction Defining moments in… READ MORE
December 1, 2006
The year now ending marks the fortieth anniversary of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s classic work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
December 1, 2006
Important bloated men squat on the facts�thinking they can hide them with their weight:�men who think their power like King Canute�ordering the sea to behave, can abolish�the eons slow inexorable… READ MORE
December 1, 2006
Fires crackle in the brittle trees�bled dry by drought, the grass,�bleached straw on the dusty hills�where rain no longer falls�in what used to be its season. � Polar bears fight… READ MORE