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What G8/G20 means for working people and the world

S. Da Silva – BASICS Issue #21 (July 2010)

As the corporate media narrowed in on the “violence” on the streets of Toronto during the G20 summit—that is, three torched cop cars and a few broken windows—the biggest criminals of were planning the biggest acts of violence to be carried out on a world stage behind closed curtains. As the crisis of imperialist capitalism intensifies and deepens, the G20 world leaders have conceded the necessity to make the G20 their “premier forum for our international economic cooperation.” Read more…