Voices from the Johannesburg Summit Socialist Affairs selects from the many statements made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September …

Let us face the uncomfortable truth. The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for the few, but flawed for the many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and…

Pakistan’s parliamentary elections held this October were part of a military promise to restore democracy in the country. The elections were marred by allegations of widespread rigging. The…

Brazil has voted for change. Hope vanquished fear and the electorate decided to set a new path for the country. We treated the world to a beautiful show of democracy, deciding peacefully and calmly…

P.J Patterson is the Prime Minister of Jamaica. The People’s National Party, which he leads, has just achieved a fourth successive term in office, an event unprecedented in the island’s history.…

Willy Brandt, Mayor of Berlin, Chancellor of Germany and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died in October 1992 having presided over the Socialist International for sixteen very fruitful years. As a…

When Jens Stoltenberg came into the world in 1950 it would have been an easy bet to forecast that he would carve out a political career for himself. His father Thorvald was already well known as…

Europe's greatest priority - creating jobs  Chancellor Viktor Klima of Austria, President of the European Council of Ministers and Leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, SPÖ,…

We are all aware that unemployment is the most dramatic concern of Europe's societies today. If we look at the correlation between unemployment figures and the results of opinion polls, it becomes…

It is a fact that there is no lasting human, social and economic development without the effective and direct co-operation of the people concerned; there is no direct participation of people if…