Contents

• Alan Nasser
  (Neo)Liberalism as First and Last Resort

  “Neoliberalism shares a number of significant features with the nineteenth-century depression period and the industrialized oligopoly capitalism of the 1920s. In all three periods the economy is more or less unregulated. This all but guarantees financial crises.”

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• Minqi Li
  Global Imbalances, Peak Oil, and the Next Global Economic Crisis

  “After about 2020, both of the world’s two largest economies will lose the capacity to function either as the world’s lender of last resort or the world’s borrower of last resort. This will leave the neoliberal global economy in a fundamentally unstable condition.”

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• Jon Bailes
  Egypt, Democracy and Neoliberalism

  “In addition to the Mubarak regime’s human rights record, it should not be ignored that it was its economic policy in response to IMF loan deals that triggered a huge downturn in fortunes for most Egyptians, and that these measures have been heavily praised from outside.”

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• Carl Finamore
  ‘We All Know Our Way Back to Tahrir Square’

  “So much had changed in just 24 hours. But it was clear to me that it was these concessions wrested by the movement from the military that emptied Tahrir Square and not any fear of government reprisals.”

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• Richard Greeman
  General Strikes and Massive Demonstrations Challenge Neo-Liberal Reforms in France

  “On the one hand, the ‘shameless’ Right does not deign to hide its objectives. On the other, the masses are angry and ready for a fight. It is the shameless Left, beginning with the Communist CGT, that disarms the masses, diverting the power of the militant millions into establishment channels like negotiations and elections, and confining it within local and sectorial boundries.”

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• William K Tabb
  Beyond Neoliberalism

  “If governments served the people, regulated capital in the public interest, protecting consumers from the usual exercises of corporate power, demanding higher product safety standards, workplace protections and so on, capitalism itself would be undermined.”

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• Ismael Hossein-zadeh
  Obamanomics: Escalation of Reaganomics

  “How is the president’s sharp turnaround on the regulation-deregulation debate to be explained? What ‘outdated deregulation’ is he talking about? How could deregulation, which is widely believed to have been the problem, also be the solution?”

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• Dennis Loo
  Neoliberalism’s Future

  “Neoliberalism relies upon the relentless shredding of the social fabric, that mutual interdependence and reliance that people have on each other as members of that entity that Margaret Thatcher called non-existent: society.”

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• Richard Wolff
  Capitalism and “Austerity” in Europe and the US

  “In effect, lenders give government leaders a choice: impose sufficient austerity now or else we will demand higher interest payments or cut off your credit.”

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• Little Big Pine
  Why They Hate Us (Essay)

  “Much of US history is a history impossible for any people to achieve except by being prepossessed by a political animus which at its core is genocidal, racist and fanatically religious.”

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• Kenneth Couesbouc
  Of Barons and Kings

  “And so it goes, down through the ages, with robber barons either vilifying central government as a limit to their own power, or using central government to grab vast expanses of land, to obtain tax exemptions, to have infrastructures built for them.”

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• Farzana Versey
  Political Correctness and Anti-Semitism

  “Political correctness often hides prejudices that are more damning of sections of society than upfront ‘disgusting’ sentiments.”

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• Little Big Pine
  Why They Hate Us (Poetry)

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• Paul Buchheit
  Capitalists Came (Poetry)

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• Rich Anderson
  “Killing Jesus” (Fiction)

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