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Forever blowing bubbles?
What is happening to the world economy?
The world capitalist economy has been
buoyed up by a tide of liquidity, a flood of cheap credit. This has
fuelled the frenzied financial speculation of the last few years, a
profits bonanza for the super-rich. Underlying this, however, are
unsustainable imbalances and deepening contradictions in world economic
relations. LYNN WALSH looks in depth at the processes taking place.
The end of March saw national congresses of
Germany’s two left-wing political parties – WASG (Electoral Alternative
Work and Social Justice) and Left Party.PDS (Party of Democratic
Socialism). Both voted with large majorities in favour of merging in
June to form a new party, Die Linke (The Left). SASCHA STANICIC,
Sozialistische Alternative (SAV – CWI Germany) and WASG National Council
member, reports.
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Italy
Crucial times for the PRC left
Quebec
What do the election results mean?
Terrorism & the law
IPCC Forest Gate report whitewash
The resistible rise of the BNP
Naomi Byron examines how the BNP has grown and what needs to be done
about it
Can China be a new tiger?
Our China debate series continues with a contribution by Ron Groves
London's biting satirist
The Hogarth exhibition at Tate Britain
Cover cartoon: Suzanne Muna
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