economics
Articles on economics and political economy.
Romania after the transition - restructuring and struggle, 2004
Article looking at capitalist restructuring and economic changes in Romania, and the growing militancy of the working class.
Romania after the Transition
Promised Land and Class Struggle
The reproduction of daily life - Fredy Perlman - Treason pamphlet
Fredy Perlman's pamphlet of working class economics, as compiled by Treason Press, February 2004.
Originally published 1969
A better formatted version of this text can be found here: http://libcom.org/library/reproduction-everyday-life-fredy-perlman
The parallax view: Karatani’s 'Transcritique. On Kant and Marx' - Slavoj Žižek
The philosophical basis for social action, as recast in Kojin Karatani’s striking Transcritique. On Kant and Marx. Slavoj Žižek investigates the irreducible antinomies of production and circulation — or economics and politics — as envisioned from the gap in between.
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: THE PARALLAX VIEW
Abolish Restaurants - prole.info
Abolish Restaurants is an illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it.
ABOLISH RESTAURANTS
Chile: Anatomy of an economic miracle, 1970-1986
Article debunking myths about Chilean dictator General Pinochet's supposed "economic miracle."
From Black Flag 216, published in 1999.
Anatomy of an Economic Miracle
The Fetish Speaks! - (Marx/Perlman)
Marx spoke of the commodity - now the commodity speaks of Marx... Quotes from Marx's Capital are given an unusual setting.
Is Latin America really turning left?
James Petras examines recent social movements and developments in the class struggle in Latin America.
A new series of social and national polarities in the Western Hemisphere has dominated political life over the past few years. At the beginning of the new millennium the national confrontation was between Cuba and the US/EU, and the social confrontations between the rural/indian and urban/unemployed movements and a continent-wide collection of neo-liberal regimes.
Housing Benefit
A short article from 'the Whinger' p. petard on proposed Housing Benefit reform.
www.geocities.com/doodlepaul
Housing Benefit
Five Pounds and Five Pennies
A short article from 'the Whinger' p. petard on the minimum wage
Five pounds and five pennies
The Decadence of Capital
"The Decadence of Capital"
An Alibi For "Progress"?
Published in Fifth Estate, Detroit, late 1980s.
