EU politics
Jacobin: How Russia’s war broke the backbone of the European left
Interesting interview with author of new book ‘This war does not end in Ukraine’. Read the article HERE.
Month: March 2023
EU politics
Chris Bambery: Sleepwalking to war in 2023
As the US builds up its military prowess in the South China Sea, it wouldn’t take much for a ‘Sarajevo’ moment to occur Chris Bambery is a Writer, broadcaster, journalist and author of A People’s […]
Economics
Cédric Durand: Crisis in slow motion?
Durand writes in Sidecar about the meaning of the latest crisis of global finance. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Nathan Akehurst: The European Union is stepping up its war on refugees
Frontex, Europe’s border army, sits at the heart of a remilitarising continent Cross-posted from Other News A special EU summit in Brussels last month committed to increasing funds for border surveillance and the deportation of […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project – Spanish study finds Uber, Bolt and Cabify charge customers more in poor neighbourhoods than rich ones
First-of-its-kind study also claims that private hire platforms in Spain indirectly price fix and break labour laws. Read the full report in English here. A ground-breaking study examining the algorithms of private hire platforms in […]
Inequality
Sarah Anderson and Jasmine Corazon – Where are Women CEOs? Should we care?
Despite some progress, white men still dominate the upper rungs of the economy while women have more than a fair share of low-paying jobs. Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project and co-edits Inequality.org at […]
Finance
Gerald Epstein – The Financial Crisis of 2023: Protecting Big Finance, Coming and Going
There needs to be a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the […]
Lobbying
Justin Mikulka – Corporate Greed Is a Root Cause of Rail Disasters Around the World
Greece’s worst rail disaster ever is the result of the same corporate cost-cutting and deregulation that led to East Palestine and Lac-Mégantic disasters. Justin Mikulka is a research fellow at New Consensus Cross-posted from DeSmog […]
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Catalonia: Exiled MEP Ponsatí returns defying Madrid
In a surprise move the Catalan EU parliamentarian Clara Ponsati returned home – and was arrested. This violates EU law, but then what does the EU care about laws? We shall see. Toni Strubell is […]
Corruption
Laura Neumann: VW diesel scandal – cliffhanger at the ECJ
The European Court of Justice must decide whether Volkswagen can be tried again for the same case that it has already faced and been fined for in Italy. Read HERE Bryn Hughes/Wikimedia Commons