Austerity
Ann Pettifor: A triumph for George Osborne’s austerity plan? Not when our social fabric is in tatters
The ex-chancellor rejoices as his target is finally hit, but austerity has taken a terrible toll Read here
Month: March 2018
Economics
Steve Keen – Does Modern Monetary Theory make sense?
Steve Keen takes a critical look at Monetary Monetary Theory.
EU politics
Michael Mair – Gaining Momentum, Spreading Out – An Update on the UK’s University Strike
The university strike in UK is growing in strength and public support. In his second report (read the first here) Michael Mair brings us up to date as well as analysing the importance of this […]
Economics
Riccardo Mastini – Eurozone: from neoliberalism to democracy?
The reason for the morphing of the 2008 global financial crisis into a sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone is to be searched in the neoliberal structure of the euro area. And even if today […]
Fake News
Chris Dillow: Free speech after Mill
Is free speech a remnant of the past? Chris Dillow may be confusing free speech with debate and discussion, but there are a number of interesting thoughts in this article, thus well worth reading. Read […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: Catching up in Africa
Africa has not been terribly important for Germany as it has been for the United States, France, Britain, Portugal – and now China. Germany’s sudden interest in Ghana may be part of the Trump administration’s […]
EU politics
Andrew Dowling – ‘Winter is Here’. The Growing Erosion of Civil Rights in Spain
The Catalan crisis has now taken hold of Spanish national politics. What once seemed a regional conflict has exposed cracks in Spain’s democratic facade. Andrew Dowling, Senior Lecturer in Catalan and Spanish History at Cardiff […]
EU politics
The Revival of French Left-wing Populism: Interview with Political Strategist Manuel Bompard
As we experienced in the campaigns of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders the left has to revolutionise how it organises itself, voters, and its communications to overcome corporate media. In this lengthy interview Manuel Bompard […]