23.12.09

Latest UNITY Journal - Bad Banks: What are the alternatives?



CONTENTS

5 A "public option" against the banks
DAPHNE LAWLESS, editor of UNITY

11 Targeting capitalism's exploitation of labour and nature
GRANT MORGAN, Socialist Worker (NZ)

15 The "collapse" of global capitalism
GRANT MORGAN

18 Target Bad Banks and you target neo-liberalism
VAUGHAN GUNSON, Socialist Worker (NZ)

22 Market volatility and profitability crisis
GRANT MORGAN

25 An end to private banks
SUE BRADFORD, former Green Party MP

32 Bank and tax systems due for overhaul
RUSSEL NORMAN MP, Green Party leader

33 Inquiry shows need for govt to act
FINSEC

34 Aussie tax-dodging robber banks
MURRAY HORTON, Campaign against Foreign Control of Aotearoa

35 Protecting New Zealand jobs through bank guarantee schemes
FINSEC

39 Is it "Kiwi" to be anti-union?
VAUGHAN GUNSON interviews Andrew Campbell

41 CTU conference 2009: can unions build an alternative?
GRANT BROOKES, New Zealand Nurses Organisation

45 What's a "fractional reserve"?
DAPHNE LAWLESS

47 Banks, money and thin air
ADAM BUICK, Socialist Party of Great Britain

50 Socialist Worker Appeal

55 Ron Paul: a right-wing alternative?
PETER De WAAL, Socialist Worker (NZ)

60 Why community currencies?
DEIDRE KENT, Living Economies

63 Financial Transactions Tax: making Wall Street pay
DEAN BAKER, Center for Economic and Policy Research

65 Our alternative to market madness
CHRIS HARMAN, Socialist Workers Party (Britain)

70 Is nationalization socialism?
YEN CHU, No-one Is Illegal (Canada)

74 Venezuela closes banks
BRONWEN BEECHEY, Socialist Worker (NZ)

78 Latin America's economic rebels
MARK WEISBROT, Center for Economic and Policy Research

81 Feedback: letters from David Frazer, Peter de Waal, Pat O'Dea and David Colyer

To purchase a copy of this issue ($5 plus postage) contact Len, email organiser@sworker.pl.net, or phone (09)634 3984.

To subscribe to UNITY Journal ($25 for four issues a year) contact Grant, grantmorgan@paradise.net.nz. Send a cheque made out to 'UNITY' to Box 13-685, Auckland, NZ, along with your postal details.


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