Much of the great rural to urban migrations which have produced the shanty towns and ghetto complexes in the regions of the 'undeveloped' South have occurred, in the main, over the past thirty years and are related to capital interests working their way through the international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank etc) to effect domestic policy changes conducive to their own interests. There is nothing inherently wrong with this if you subscribe to the notion that open borders and a liberalized...

The unconscious has a timeless, pulsatile function and if you were to ask what is a prevailing cause of crisis in this troubled region I would say it is the Israeli mind itself - a mind which needs to be expunged of its darknesses.

For the entire process of Holocaust remembrance, of continually revisiting the events both in their public and private lives has obviously had an incalculably strong - and deleterious impact. There are painful, recurring modes of renewing this compact with...

Away from the often complicated nuances of theory, I would say that socialism is simply the attempt to artificially inject a greater degree of justice and fairness into our myriad goings on. Its success depends on the notion that 'justice' and 'fairness', though abstract concepts, must be forced, through our own labours, to be given real concrete existence in the world. Of course, any government or monarchy or even a tyranny may claim that their form of governance is permeated by considerations...

India has more poverty than any place on earth with three quarters of the population living on less than two dollars a day (about a ninth of the world's people) and it still maintains instutionalised discrimination of lower caste groups such as the Dalits. Compare this to the development indicators of Iran who have 8% of their living on less than $2 a day, China with 35% and the Ivory Coast with 46%. Sounds incredible, doesn't it? Have I plucked these figures out of a hat?

Sadly no,...

Within Marx’s historical dialectic there is a predicted process of 'homogenization' driven by a bourgeoise revolutionary force whose deployment of capital in its internationalist aspect erases archaic barriers predicated on class, religion, tribal affinities and so forth. This movement of capital is conceived and best facilitated through a free trade environment; one that naturally eschews the various forms of protectionism which only, in the end, forestall the emergence of 'the necessary conditions'...