Corruption
euronews: Money spent by EU on migration policy becoming ‘complex’ to track
The web of funds going towards the externalisation of the contentious issue is getting much wider. Read HERE
Year: 2023
Economics
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven – Dependency Theory and the Decolonization of Economics
Rethink global economics with Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (@kingscollegelondon) as she delves into the Eurocentric nature of the field and the role dependency theory could play in decolonizing it.
Economics
Thomas Fazi: The capitalists are circling over Ukraine
The war is creating massive profit opportunities Read HERE
Climate Crisis
Matthew James Seidel: How Right-Wingers Hijacked Green Politics in Norway
Review of The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic by Zdenka Sokolíčková (Pluto Press, 2023). In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Michael Roberts: From greedflation to stagflation and then slumpflation
Beneath the surface of the inflation crisis – which will soon become a global slump – is the failure of capital accumulation to improve productivity Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and […]
National Politics
Ronan Burtenshaw: How the NHS was won
Interesting piece on the struggle which was required to establish the UK’s National Health Service, on its 75th anniversary. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Greek shipwreck oracle: A horrible accident at sea or the inevitable function of militarised borders? – Interview with Lauren Markham
The militarisation of the EU’s external borders replicates many of the deadly practices of the United States on its Mexican border Interview by Todd Miller, author of ‘Build Bridges Not Walls’ and editor of The […]
EU politics
Boris Kagarlitsky: My Peace Plan
Russian leftist outlines a proposal to end the Ukraine war. Boris Kagarlitsky is a historian and sociologist who lives in Moscow. He is a prolific author of books on the history and current politics of […]
Climate Crisis
GND Media – “Degrowth does not mean poverty for the working class” Interview with Jason Hickel
Listen HERE We’ve always said that environmentalism needs to understand class if it wants to protect the world from climate catastrophe. Degrowth has been accused by some on the Left as green austerity, or just […]
Globalisation
US-China relations and the decline of US dominance: Interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs
Sachs talks about Ukraine, de-dollarisation, Taiwan, the Middle East and more in this transcript from an interview with ‘The Creative Process – One Planet podcast / Pearls and Irritations’. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and […]