a counter-summit to the

 

Source: New Statesman   Posted by Laurie Penny - 11 November 2010 11:41 "This is scary but not as scary as what's happening to our future."

Big turnout at student anti-fees protest emboldens TUC leadership to plan wider campaign against government cuts By Matthew Taylor and Adam GabbattSource: guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 November 2010 19.03 GMT

Source: Socialistworker.org  24 Novermber 2010 The economic unraveling of Ireland highlights the severity of the financial crisis--and the increasingly severe government cutbacks that will be used to pay for it.

By PAUL KRUGMAN  Source: The New York TimesPublished: October 21, 2010 In the spring of 2010, fiscal austerity became fashionable. I use the term advisedly: the sudden consensus among Very Serious People that everyone must balance budgets now now now wasn’t based on any kind of careful analysis. It was more like a fad, something everyone professed to believe because that was what the in-crowd was saying.

Source: Links – International Journal of Socialist Renewal By Danielle Sabai

The Socialist Workers Party has helped initiate an international statement on the economic crisis and solidarity with Greek workers, students, unemployed, pensioners and young people.

In this feature of Worlds of Labour website, we invited activists from Germany, UK and China (Hong Kong) to illustrate and comment the changes of social security systems in their own countries and region. They point out the existing problems and proposes improvements.   Previous Special Reports

By Helmut Weiss With this short piece I try to explain the social system - and it's changes - within which a german worker normally lives. Outlining the life of my elder brother to explain such relations was an idea I had after discussing with him and chinese partners about how to make more understandable the dimensions of society.