The Editorial Collective

SARA BURKE [on leave] the founder of Gloves Off and a journalist committed to the radical tradition within the field. She is based in New York City. Her current writing and activism focuses on poverty and inequality, anti-imperialism and development issues.

PAUL COONEY is department chair in Economics at the Federal University of Pará, in Belém—the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon. He received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 1990. Paul's research areas are labor and environmental issues in the context of NAFTA and the maquiladora sector in Mexico, international transfers of value, neoliberalism and the current crises in Argentina and the impact of trade agreements, such as the FTAA and Mercosur on labor in Brazil and Argentina.

CLAUDIO PUTY is a political economist who received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 2004. He is head of the economics department of the Federal University of Pará, in Belém and Chief of Staff to the Governor of Pará, Brazil. Claudio's research is mainly focused on theoretical questions in Marxian and classical political economy.

CHRIS RUDE is an economist and a Marxist political theorist. He formerly worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and on Wall Street. He is currently engaged in research on the response of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to global economic crisis and a theoretical proposal toward a democratic socialist nationalization of the US financial system. He studied political science at the University of Chicago, economics at the University of Wisconsin, and he got his Ph.D. in economics at the New School for Social Research.

JOE SMITH has taught at the Brecht Forum in New York City and in the sociology department at Montclair State University.  He is active in peace, solidarity, environment and global justice movements and currently moderates “Capitalist Globalization” a yahoogroups.com e-list dedicated to critical discussion of these issues.  A union member and a registered Green, Joe currently resides in New York City.

About Gloves Off

GLOVES OFF launched on February 15, 2003, the day millions of people all over the world came out into the streets to protest the impending US war on Iraq.

OUR MISSION is to become a vehicle for increasing economic literacy among the activists, journalists, trade unionists, and other workers who are involved in or in solidarity with these struggles. We want to foster, provoke, and host dialogues and debates between and among economists critical of capitalism and people in political movements for social justice. We also want to reach out to journalists searching for new paradigms for reporting on, writing about, and understanding issues in the economy and in the news.

THE SITE is edited by the editorial collective and with the advice, criticism, suggestions and help of friends and contributors around the world. Our point of view is non-sectarian, non-party affiliated, and anti-capitalist.

YOUR INVOLVEMENT is critical. Please let us know what you think of our efforts. Send letters to the editor, suggestions, criticisms, interesting links and submissions to editor@glovesoff.org.