Finance
David Harvey – Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 – Class 4, Chapters 4, 5 & 6 (2019)
The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for both the Penguin Classics and Vintage Books editions of Capital.
Year: 2019
EU politics
EU-OCS: France’s record fine for UBS
In the first of three reports on tax evasion in Europe EU-OCS explores France’s record fine against Swiss banking giant UBS in what the court called a case of fraud of ‘exceptional magnitude.’ Read here
EU politics
Deutsche Welle – Chinese investments in Europe: German EU commissioner floats EU veto right
The German Hegemon: Imposing austerity on Europe, and then stopping effected nations from receiving Chinese investments, while also sabotaging climate change reforms. Read here
Finance
Kevin Farnsworth – There’s not just Five Giants, there’s a whole bunch to slay
Using the example of Amazon, Kevin Farnsworth develops a strategy on how to fight back against giant corporations. Kevin Farnsworth is a Reader in Social Policy at the University of York. He also founded and […]
Climate Crisis
Bill McGuire – Shorts and Sun-Shades in February then Drowning in March
Weather and climate are not the same, but Bill McGuire is reeling at the numbers rolling-up from recent extreme weather events and how climate change is loading the dice. Here he writes about why… Bill McGuire is Professor […]
EU politics
France 24: Sporadic clashes as Yellow Vests march to Montmartre for ‘Act 19’ of protests
“The 4-month-old movement drew bigger crowds Saturday than in recent weeks”. Austerity is not on the decline. Why should the giletes jaunes give up? As the May EU elections near, liberal democrats will become nervous. […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – The Euro is Not Without Alternative
The Euro is unsuitable for many of its member nation. Still the agony – increasing inequality, high youth unemployment, emigration – continues. The result has been the demise of democracy, rise of the far right, […]
National Politics
Chris Bambery – Half-truths, Lies, and Guardia Civil Lies
Chris Bambery sums up a week in which members of the Spanish Guardia Civil testified in the trial against Catalan leaders. Chris Bambery is author and broadcaster. Co-author (with George Kerevan) of Catalonia Reborn: How […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – The fantasy world of the Long Depression
The Long Depression has become a fantasy world of rising financial asset prices, low investment and productivity growth, where nearly everybody can get a job (working part-time, temporary or self-employed), but not a living. Michael […]
EU politics
Bloomberg: The Brexit Deal Is Just Too Good for Europe
Not the sort of thing we are reading in state and corporate media – except for maybe the Loony Right. Read here