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The Lugano Report
On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century
Susan George

What would you recommend if you wanted to preserve capitalism in the 21st century? A multidisciplinary Working Party convened by world leaders to consider the future of the world economy concludes that it is grossly undermanaged, gravely threatened by its own excesses, prone to ecological collapse and an unlikely candidate for long-term survival. How, then, can the winners in the globalisation game guarantee their own comfortable future? There is a way, but one which may be too awful to contemplate. The Lugano Report stakes out new territory and proceeds with relentless logic from uncompromising diagnosis to chilling cure.

If this is the future, you will be moved to seek out a different one. In her appendix and afterword, Susan George challenges the conclusions of the Working Party and offers alternative solutions.

Pluto Press, London, September 1999 (208pp), ISBN: 0-7453-1532-1

THE LIMITS OF CAPITALISM
An Approach to Globalisation Without Neoliberalism
Wim Dierckxsens

This book is a trenchant critique of globalisation under the sign of neo-liberal economic policies and is a powerful proposal for a different and democratic way forward. It argues that the political Achilles Heel of globalisation is that it is taking place without the engagement of citizens at large, or even consulting them. The author argues that the neo-liberal mindset cannot appreciate the differences between economic efficiency and vitality or between productive and unproductive investment, and has no notion of the Common Good.

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, January 2001, ISBN:1-85649-869-7, $22.50.

AGAINST GLOBAL APARTHEID
South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance
by Patrick Bond (Alternative Information & Development Centre associate researcher)


South Africans hold positions of great influence in the world of international finance: President Thabo Mbeki regularly speaks of fighting "global apartheid", and does so as leader of the Non-Aligned Movement and Commonwealth at the turn of the 21st century. Finance minister Trevor Manuel recently chaired the World Bank and IMF Board of Governors. Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin is one of the Third World's most forceful trade negotiators, and was President of UNCTAD during the late 1990s. Mamphela Ramphele is a managing director of the World Bank, responsible for social development.

However, Patrick Bond poses challenging questions, such as:

• Are these leading South Africans aspiring to break the chains of global apartheid – or merely to shine them?

• What, in contrast, are South Africa's grassroots activists saying and doing at "anti-globalisation" protest in Seattle, Washington, Prague and Johannesburg?

• Should the key institutions of international capitalist regulation – the World Bank, IMF and WTO – be fixed or "nixed"?

• For people all over the world, what are the implications of corporate globalisation's "race to the bottom", and of South Africans' varied reactions?

UCT PRESS, second edition is forthcoming from ZedPress.

Check out the website of ATTAC: http://www.attac.org/indexen/index.html
for a very good list of links and information.

Walking on the Way: Biblical Signposts
Hans-Ruedi Weber

In this refreshing reflection on key biblical texts, the author uses literary and historical analysis to discuss the great festivals of the ecclesiastical year and the important periods in between. He also draws on the work of artists, especially painters and weavers, interpreting the images and symbols they use.

Hans-Ruedi Weber was formerly director for biblical studies at the World Council of Churches, and a professor at the Graduate School of Ecumenical Studies at Bossey, near Geneva.

ISBN 2-8254-1357-7, 110pp., illustrated, Sfr.17.00, US$9.95, £6.95, EUR 11.00.

A Chinese Contribution to Ecumenical Theology:
Selected Writings of Bishop K.H. Ting
Edited by Janice and Philip Wickeri

A selection of theological writings by Bishop K.H. Ting, former head of the China Christian Council and chair of the Chinese Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Born in Shanghai in 1915 and still principal of Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, Bishop Ting's mission throughout the last, often difficult, 60 years of change in China has been to address reconciliation between church and society, Christian and non-Christian, China and the world. The over-riding theme in his writings - God's love never ends - has sustained his philosophy.

ISBN 2-8254-1358-5, 128ppp., Sfr.22.00, US$12.95, £8.95, EUR 15.00