Showing posts with label UNITY Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNITY Journal. Show all posts

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.


16.9.09

Latest UNITY Journal on Bad Banks


Bad Banks, & how to beat them
September 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

5 Bank on a massive campaign
Daphne Lawless, editor of UNITY

11 Why we need to battle the banks
VAUGHAN GUNSON, national chair of Socialist Worker NZ

17 The banks and the Great Implosion
VAUGHAN GUNSON

30 New Zealand’s recession - is the worst over?
ANTHONY Main, Socialist Party (Australia)

34 Are the banks helping?
BILL ROSENBERG, NZ Council of Trade Unions economist

38 A Green response to global market failure
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY and KEVIN HAGUE, Green MPs (New Zealand)

43 International banks exploit the crisis
STEFAN STEINBERG, World Socialist Web Site

47 Are the banks to blame?
Anindya Bhattacharyya and Sadie Robinson, Socialist Worker (Britain)

52 Banks go back to bubble bonuses
ALEX CALLINICOS, Socialist Worker (Britain)

54 The recovery is here! (for Wall Street)
Adam Turl and Alan Maass, Socialist Worker (USA)

60 How the bankers bought Congress
PETRINO DILEO, Socialist Worker (USA)

65 Iceland - what happened?
JACK SMART, Socialist Appeal (Britain)

69 Iceland: devastated by global crisis
Per-Åke Westerlund, Committee for a Workers’ International

72 Can the Left-Greens rescue Iceland?
DEREK WALL, Green Left Network (Britain)

75 Australia: Banks are bastards
PETER ROBSON, Green Left Weekly (Australia)

77 Mexico: Protests target banks
RACHEL EVANS, Green Left Weekly (Australia)

78 Communal banks of Venezuela receive big boost
TAMARA PEARSON, http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/

80 Venezuela will take over private banks that fail
JAMES SUGGETT, http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/

81 Feedback: Letters from Peter de Waal, Bronwen Beechey and Pat O’Dea

To purchase a copy email socialist-worker@pl.net

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