We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to a dangerous extent. On the other hand, it is also a social crisis: several billion people are deprived of access to basic goods and services. More than 40 percent of the human population cannot afford nutritious food; 50 percent do not have safely managed sanitation facilities; 70 percent do not have necessary health care.
Austerity
Costas Lapavitsas – Learning from Brexit
We have avoided the topic of Brexit, but when the most eloquent and convincing proponent of Lexit writes something on the topic – and this is a lengthy article – it is well worth reading, […]
EU politics
telesur: First Time in History: France’s Nine Biggest Unions Join Together for Million-Worker Strike
The French government seeks to “flexibilize” public jobs amid a climate of growing citizen discontent, which made it possible for all big unions to reach a common stand for the first time. Read here
Economics
Thomas Fazi, Paolo Cornetti: Is Giorgia Meloni an EU puppet?
There’s nothing subversive about Italy’s leading ‘fascist’ Read Here Photo: Presidenza della Repubblica
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