neoliberalism

At the time when Solidarnosc was legal (september 1980 – december 1981) its direction made a lot of provocations and miscalculated decisions so the enthousiasm that prevailed in september 1980 was gradually lost what explains the rather successfully introduced martial law in december 1981 and the then relative popularity of the leading « People’s Poland » aristocratic General Wojciech Jaruzelski. At the beginning of 1981, Solidarnosc had almost 10 millions members …but when it was banned, quite few workers did strike to save it and two years later, when the regime created a new Trade Union, the OPZZ, 7 millions out of 12 millions salaried people did join it. When Solidarnosc was relegalised in 1989, it could not even recuperate 2 millions of its former 10 millions members, the majority of salaried remaining then, 5 millions of them, in the « communist » but bureaucratised OPZZ Trade union. Since that time both opportunistically lead trade unions lost the majority of their former members.

By J.C Polychroniou The US is facing uncertain times. While it remains the only global superpower, it is no longer able to influence events and...

By Jonathan D. Ostry, Prakash Loungani, and Davide Furceri Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion Milton Friedman...

By David Coates The Democratic Party primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is being fought in the shadow of “neoliberalism” – in the...

By George Monbiot Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos According to a reliable source in Caracas, as Hugo Chávez was dying he called his chosen successor Maduro. Among other things he...

Mike Lofgren, author of “The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government,”, in an interview with "Salon"...

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by Michael Hudson The following is a transcript of CounterPunch Radio – Episode 19 (originally aired September 21, 2015). Eric Draitser interviews Michael Hudson. Eric Draitser:...

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky   The financial media as well as segments of the alternative media are pointing to a possible weakening of the US dollar as...