EU politics
Jamie Maxwell: Post-Sturgeon
Scottish nationalism has hit a wall. Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben
Deregulation
Reuters: Amazon workers protest at some German, French sites on Black Friday
Amazon strikes in more than 30 countries part of ‘Make Amazon Pay initiative’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Thomas Simon Mattia: Why Were Italians Swayed to the Right by the Brothers of Italy?
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 […]
Uncategorized
James Foley – Capturing identity part 1: Dedicated followers of fashion
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 […]
Finance
Anne Dufresne: Uber’s social dialogue deal with the UBT-FGTB union in Belgium
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 […]
Environment
Benny Wanda, Jean Wyllys, Julie Wark – Manifesto For a Rainforest Defenders International
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 […]
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
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 […]
Finance
Marco D’Eramo: Circuits of War
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.
Corruption
Branko Marcetic: A Missile Strike in Poland Shows Why Government Agencies Can’t Be the Sole Arbiters of Truth
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 […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project – Uber, drivers and data: Can workers build data power?
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 […]