Corruption
Politico: Big business circles EU’s consumer protections
An industry-friendly approach to consumer protection could make its way into EU legislation after years of lobbying. Read here
Year: 2018
EU politics
Amnesty International – Britain: Stansted 15 verdict is ‘crushing blow’ for human rights in the UK
This is a truly appalling miscarrage of justice. There is no reason for criminalising citizens for doing their democratic duty. The 15 human rights defenders always insisted they were acting to prevent what they believed […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Our manifesto to save Europe from itself
We need to reduce inequality within countries, not between them, and invest in the future of all Europeans Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Jakub Patočka: The EU must stop funding all post-communist oligarchs
Czech journalist and Corporate Europe Observatory board member Jakub Patočka explains what the rise of oligarchs and the demise of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe have to do with EU funding – and how […]
Austerity
@OCCUPYIRTHEORY: Lee Jones – ‘The Full Brexit’
There is not shortage of article and interviews by Remainers that claim that Brexit will make Armageddon look like a picnic. We try to present a leftist Leave position to provide our readers with a […]
Climate Crisis
Han de Groot: The Best Technology for Fighting Climate Change Isn’t a Technology
Forests are the most powerful and efficient carbon-capture system on the planet Read here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Italy, France and Germany – How History Forms the Future – Part 2
Anyone who says that the German export boom is a relatively normal event that is the result of German productivity has not studied the relevant figures. The weakness of the German domestic market proves that […]
EU politics
Simon Gray – France: It’s grim down south too
The gilets jaunes, the protestors young and old in their hi-viz yellow jackets who have risen against President Emmanuel Macron, are as active in the south as they are in Paris – with some troublesome […]
Economics
David Harvey – A History of Neo-liberalism, Part 2
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at City University of New York and author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism argues with Chris Hedges that Neoliberalism, the manta of the global corporate elites, […]
Media
George Monbiot: How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain
This is not only US billionaires, but those in Europe as well. The winners of neo-liberalism are pumping money into neo-racist party because democracy and sham democratic liberal parties are no longer working for them. […]