Book Review – Fat Cats and Running Dogs: The Enron Stage of Capitalism
As a few corporate criminals are paraded before the press to show government concern for the kinds of deception practiced by some Enron officials, Vijay Prashad’s book, Fat Cats and Running Dogs, delves more deeply to reveal the true extent of their crimes.
Another World is Possible: Report from Porto Alegre
Meeting under the banner “Another World is Possible,” 100,000 participants at the third World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan. 23-28, could choose from around 1,500 panels, “dialogue and controversy round tables,” conferences, workshops and other sessions.
Our Way: Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
It has been 45 years since the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese people under its leadership began to build socialism. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh CPC Central Committee convened at the end of 1978 blazed a trail for the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics. This trail wasn’t easily found: it was the result of hard exploration by the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people for half a century and a heavy price was paid.
Prescription for Socialism
When physicians and nurses are public employees, hospitals and community health centers are publicly-owned and pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment and medical supplies are produced by government-owned enterprises and/or purchased at controlled prices – all within a capitalist system – this system is called “socialized medicine.”
