Economic liberalism

Many had hoped that the 2008 global economic crisis would mark the end of neoliberal globalization and the revival of the left.

I should be the last person to write on economic matters, since it is neither my profession nor my passion. Nevertheless, none of us need to be experts nowadays to see that the prospects for Turkey's economy are rather dim.

One of most-cited social scientists of our time, Professor David Harvey speaks about the role of the reader, writer and everyday people in a social resistanceIncreasing social inequality, wars and migration all call for a clear policy response and an urgent reply to the question how can civil society fight back. 

The effects of the 1980 military coup are still bitterly contested in Turkey today. The intervention put an end to bloody street clashes among left-wing and right-wing militants, but it also unleashed a period of fierce repression and imposed a nationalist-conservative constitution that is still in force today.

'The Economic Transformation of Turkey: Neoliberalism and State Intervention' by Nilgün Önder (IB Tauris, $110, 288 pages)

One of Turkey's leading businesspeople has recommended interventions in capitalism to "sort out inequality" amid comments from President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an that employers should share their excess income with lower-paid employees.

Marking International Labour Day in Montenegro on May 1, the Independent Trade Union is urging Montenegrins to dismiss worries about publicly expressing dissatisfaction with government policies and join a mass rally.

Citizens need reminding that "we are all slaves to the neo-liberal economy," the head of the union, Srdja Kekovic, said.

Poet and thinker Nuri Pakdil, while he was receiving an award from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said, “Dear friends, I salute you with all my anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist and anti-pharaohist feelings.”