STWR - Share The World's Resources

The seeds of Latin America's rebirth - challenging US domination and neoliberal orthodoxy, breaking down social and racial inequality, building regional integration and taking back strategic resources from corporate control - were sown half a century ago in Cuba, writes Seamus Milne.

The world economy will this year suffer its worst performance for more than 60 years with a serious risk that 50m people will lose their jobs, international organisations have warned. Reported by Krishna Guha et al.

The "alter-globalisation" movement gathers in Brazil at a moment of crisis in the system it has long opposed. But its triumph is qualified as it searches for a way to turn global breakdown into political opportunity, says Geoffrey Pleyers.

In the context of ambiguous electoral victories, movements throughout Latin America have come to the conclusion that despite the importance of electing and defending progressive governments, real change cannot come without struggles in the workplaces, schools and streets. By Daniel Denvir.

Here are six steps we can take toward a truly balanced budget that will allow all people on Earth to live fulfilling, healthy, yet more ecologically compatible lives. Ecological overshoot is climate change on steroids, argue Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver.

As the World Social Forum meets this week in the northern Brazilian Amazon jungle city of Belem, four analysts give their views on alternative solutions for the global crisis of capitalism now under way, the future of the WSF, and the need to 'propose' not just 'oppose'. Interviews by the Inter Press Service.

The multi-trillion dollar rescues and bail-outs so far just attempt to save the status quo. But what can we do if the status quo can’t be saved? Can globalization from below provide an alternative solution to the great recession? In fact, it has already started to do so. Report by Global Labor Strategies.

The new approved Bolilvian constitution, which puts the country's valuable natural resources in public hands and makes future privatisation difficult, marks a major landmark in Bolivian history that will create frissons of excitment throughout Latin America. Commentary by Vincent Bevins and Richard Gott.

In the midst of the present financial crisis when banks continue to go bankrupt, it is absurd to ask banks and financial institutions to solve the food crisis. The real solution is food sovereignty, says a civil society declaration prior to the High Level Meeting on Food Security to be held in Madrid.