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Thomas Simon Mattia: Why Were Italians Swayed to the Right by the Brothers of Italy?

November 25, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Italy didn’t vote for fascism, they voted for the far-right because they offered a message of security, whereas the left failed to offer a credible answer to the key concerns of Italians Cross-posted from Green […]

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James Foley – Capturing identity part 1: Dedicated followers of fashion

November 25, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Many who once embraced identity politics are now turning away from it. But this is a cycle we keep repeating in modern history. In the first instalment of a new series examining the rise, fall […]

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Finance

Anne Dufresne: Uber’s social dialogue deal with the UBT-FGTB union in Belgium

November 22, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Anne Dufresne, activist for gig workers’ rights and member of the GRESEA research group, gives a critical perspective on Uber’s recognition agreement with Belgian union UBT-FGTB, the first such agreement in the EU. A longer […]

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Environment

Benny Wanda, Jean Wyllys, Julie Wark – Manifesto For a Rainforest Defenders International

November 18, 2022 Ben Wray 0

The ‘Green state vision’ for West Papua could be the basis for a real rainforest international, based not on states and corporations but on peoples Cross-posted from Counterpunch Why a manifesto? In the terrible state […]

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Economics

Richard Murphy: Spending cuts will be £27 billion next year – which is the additional unnecessary sum the government is planning to pay in interest to the UK’s banks next year

November 18, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Interest rates were attached to Quantitative Easing, so that banks get interest on money created by the BoE, in which they have done nothing to earn. Now interest rates are rising, and those banks are […]

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Finance

Marco D’Eramo: Circuits of War

November 18, 2022 Ben Wray 0

On 7 October the US made a declaration of war when it announced stringent controls on the export of key technologies to China, most importantly semiconductors Read the article HERE.

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Corruption

Branko Marcetic: A Missile Strike in Poland Shows Why Government Agencies Can’t Be the Sole Arbiters of Truth

November 18, 2022 Ben Wray 0

After a Ukrainian missile mishap in Poland, misinformation blaming Russia quickly spread. The lie came from precisely the “authoritative sources” now being treated as the arbiters of truth by social media platforms. Read the article […]

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Finance

Gig Economy Project – Uber, drivers and data: Can workers build data power?

November 17, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Can workers access their data and use it to build their power? The Gig Economy Project looks at a fascinating case study from Geneva, Switzerland, to find out. Every worker in Europe has the right […]

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Finance

Gig Economy Project – Data power in the gig economy: Interview with data expert Jessica Pidoux

November 17, 2022 Ben Wray 0

The Gig Economy Project speaks to Jessica Pidoux, director of PersonalData.IO, about her critique of data in the platform economy and how gig workers can use data tools to build workers’ power (in podcast and […]

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Economics

War and debt to rule: Interview with Michael Hudson

November 11, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Mohsen Abdelmoumen interviews economist and anthropologist Michael Hudson on the history of debt and credit, modern economics and what an alternative monetary and financial system would look like. Cross-posted from Michael Hudson’s blog Mohsen Abdelmoumen: […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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