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Brecher, Costello, and Smith, "'Globalization from Below' Tackles the 'Great Recession'"

"Why China Matters: Labor in the Era of Globalization"

What's unprecedented about the global economic crisis? Can national governments effectively address the crisis, or are people's movements a better source of ideas? And why should the situation of workers in China matter to people everywhere? Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello, co-directors of Global Labor Strategies, share their ideas. (Special tribute presentation; Tim passed away on Dec. 4.)

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Saskia Sassen, "Too Big to Save: The End of Financial Capitalism" openDemocracy

Saskia Sassen, "The World's Third Spaces" openDemocracy

Do discussions about globalization adequately deal with the deep transformations taking place? Is the world economic crisis properly called a "crisis"? Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights, talks about what she calls global cities; argues that it's too late to save the global financial system; and describes arrangements that fall outside the usual national-global binary.

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Capitalism and Its Discontents: A Five-Part Series on the Economic Meltdown

In a moment of nearly unprecedented economic crisis, what is the Left proposing as a means of reaching a better world? On a series about the global economic meltdown, radical scholars Andrej Grubacic and Dick Walker talk about recent debates at the World Social Forum and the connections between finance capital and the economic crisis.

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H.K. Yuen Social Movement Archive

Yellowjackets by Itamar Moses at Berkeley Rep

If much of the Left is correct, then corporate elites in this country all think the same way. But do they? Mark Engler points out divisions within corporate elites and differences between the Clinton and Bush versions of globalization. He also reflects on what he senses will be a new era of globalization and free-trade battles. Also, Peter Camejo spoke at Sproul Plaza in 1967, and Itamar Moses discusses his new play about Berkeley High School.