A new alliance for the global justive movement: Democracy in action
Article / 4th November 2008The economic freedom promised through the liberalisation of market forces has, in reality, resulted in a freedom for the very few and a contradiction of the promise that increased wealth will be shared. Hence the calls are ringing out for a new alliance of the global justice movement, says Adam Parsons.
Sharing to secure human rights
Article / 4th November 2008The following talk was given at a seminar hosted by World Goodwill on the theme “Human Rights, Spiritual Responsibilities – A Crisis for Democracy?”, held in London on the 1st November 2008.
Food and markets: a crisis of faith
Article / 30th September 2008Unlike the crisis of 1970s stagflation that signalled the end for the Keynesian social-democratic model, the food crisis of 2008 could be marked down in history for setting in motion an opposite trend, writes Adam Parsons.
The global fight for food: a battle of narratives
Article / 16th September 2008The inability of world leaders to face up to the root causes or policy contradictions of a food crisis is nothing new, but the resultant crisis of faith in neoliberal economic orthodoxy is a sign that the world direction is changing course, writes Adam Parsons.
World bank poverty figures: what do they mean?
Article / 15th September 2008The World Bank’s revised international poverty line of $1.25, which on many counts reveals a negligible difference in reducing poverty since 1981, raises legitimate questions about the assumed success of globalisation.