The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.

Latin America is now exploring new and often promising paths in rejecting the doctrinal notions of "globalization," and also in the remarkable growth of popular movements and authentic participation in the political systems. How successful this will be is more a matter for action than for speculation.

We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.