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Postcapitalism: Movement Has Alternatives to G20

By alex.foti

It’s hardly surprising that some want to trash the City, but to claim that the G20 protesters have no alternative is nonsense
By Seumas Milne
When mass protests exploded on the streets of Seattle in 1999 against the kind of globalisation embodied in the World Trade Organisation, their anti-capitalist message was widely portrayed as utopian. A decade [...]

We, the Movement, Predicted the Great Recession

By alex.foti

Once beaten for stating the obvious, our time has come
Katharine Ainger, Thursday 26 March 2009
Ten years ago, the anticapitalist movement predicted this recession. Now it must envisage an alternative global future
It was 1999 and the summer of corporate love. Many pundits – now talking of “bad apples” and applauding bailouts – were predicting the [...]

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