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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 15, 2010

  After the G20 summit
The G20 summit in South Korea ended, predictably, without any agreement between the major powers on resolving the increasingly fractious conflicts over currency and trade. The final communiqué on Friday barely attempted to paper over the divisions, setting a timetable for next year to agree...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 27, 2010

  Class struggle erupts in South Africa
The strike by 1.3 million public service workers in South Africa represents a significant escalation of the international class struggle in response to the global recession and the austerity measures that governments have adopted worldwide. It expresses the fundamental contradiction that exists...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 18, 2009

  Race, class fuel social conflict on French Caribbean islands
POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AFP): A general strike crippling Guadeloupe and Martinique has exposed racial and class divides on the French Caribbean islands where a white elite wields power over a majority descended from African slaves. Protesters on Monday stepped up their nearly month-long...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 17, 2008

  Barack Obama's historic victory (1)
By RICHARD FALK* The historic victory by Barack Obama is the first truly global election that has been celebrated by people around the world as if they had been voting participants. The re-election of George W. Bush in 2004 was also a national election with global reverberations, but it...... [view]
Posted By:  qnp
Posted On:  Oct 26, 2008

  Youth Culture and Globalization
American cultural imperialism has a large effect on how youth construct their identities, creating hegemonic ideals of beauty, and most importantly defining cool for an entire generation of youth. Yet culture is not a one-way transaction, as much of global youth pop culture has been...... [view]
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