The Unplanned Death of Ideology: December 2008 – January 2009 issue

Understanding the impact of technological revolutions on major financial booms and busts, including the ongoing crash of 2008, from the standpoint of historical materialism allows us to understand the causes of economic crisis as well as what can be done to change the system we live in and reduce the turmoil.

My answer to the question “Why is a philosophy of the natural sciences needed?” will take the form of several distinct components. Before enumerating them, I should point out that no separate Marxist philosophy of the natural sciences exists distinct from dialectical and historical materialism.

We are, everyday, protecting the social security rights of all Greek workers. We fight for a stable working situation; against the privatization being driven by the European Union and forces present here in Greece. Protecting and improving the health, education and lives or workers is our priority.

In the general election of 2004, the Indian electorate denied the intransigent right wing power over the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance won 181 seats, with the BJP losing 44 of its seats to come away with 138 by itself.

Daily headlines for December 2008

What will be impact of the Wall Street bankruptcies, bailouts and blunders on working people in this country and worldwide? What's the solution to the crisis?

Cuba has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by almost 3.5 million tons since the implementation of the Energy Revolution program, an idea of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The global financial crisis, with its enormous proportions that is storming capitalist economies today, is an expression of the internal contradictions of globalized capitalism, revealing once again the inability of the system to resolve these contradictions.

Today, our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather...

As the Big Three executives return to Congress to plead for new loans to bail out the auto industry, political debates erupted again this week over whether or not the federal government has managed the economic crisis adequately.

College tuition and fees have risen about three times as much a median family income since the Reagan administration, reported a new study this week from the Center for Public Policy and Education.

Adel Abu Sido, 31, a taxi driver from Gaza City, stands over his two-week old premature baby, Hadil, dreading her air supply may abruptly stop.

Strengthening the ability of workers to join or organize labor unions may be the key to economic recovery. While approximately only 10 percent of American workers are currently members of unions, a new survey published this week by Gallup found that about six in 10 workers have a positive view of labor unions.

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