Luc Rousselet, who manages one of 3M’s French factories, recently told reporters that talks between his company and its employees were a good thing. This, however, was only after he was kept in his office for more than 24 hours by workers he was intending to fire. This case, along with similar situations, has been dubbed a “bossnapping.”
As the leaders of the ‘free world’ at the G20 summit sit down to
champagne, caviar and the grand task of ‘solving the economic crisis’,
the last thing likely to be on their minds are the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Two shattered countries with no infrastructure and over one
million dead and they tell us that 'the objectives have nearly been
achieved'!
"Neoliberalism", sometimes called "market
fundamentalism", i.e. the policy of non-intervention by the state in
the economy, has been the dominant ideology of the bourgeoisie for close to
three decades, involving widespread privatisation and all the
other policies that go with it. The present economic meltdown,
however, is forcing governments to intervene, regulate, and even
nationalise firms because they have no choice. So is "neoliberalism"
dead?
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