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Euronews – Germany resists EU members’ push for a tougher stance on China

May 26, 2026 Ben 0

Germany’s confusion about the sort of relationship it wants with China is symptomatic of an EU that hasn’t woken up to the fact that it can’t compete with Chinese manufacturing and neither can it afford […]

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Corruption

STV – Peter Murrell jailed after admitting embezzling £400,000 from SNP

May 25, 2026 Ben 0

A party chief who was in position for more than 20 years taking advantage of the enthusiasm for Scottish independence among grassroots activists to embezzle funds – why is this not surprising? Read the article […]

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Trita Parsi – The US and Iran are on the verge of a deal, and the warmongers hate it

May 25, 2026 Ben 0

If this deal gets over the line, it will be dressed up as ‘everyone is a winner’, but the reality is that the US will have lost badly, and the Zionists know it. Trita Parsi […]

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Climate Crisis

Matt Huber – The Key to Climate Action Is Building Working-Class Power

May 25, 2026 Ben 0

‘We can’t address climate change without the working class. Matt Huber argues that an explicit political or rhetorical focus on the climate crisis itself may not be helpful in that effort.’ In Jacobin. Read the […]

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Geopolitics

Why I’m campaigning against conscription in Germany – Interview w/ Felix Krekow Rojas

May 25, 2026 Ben 0

Good to see young people in Germany resisting attempts to conscript them into Germany’s militarist machine. Interview by Michael Lavalette, member of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK. Cross-posted from Counterfire Could you […]

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EU politics

Jean-Michel Lafleur, Abdeslam Marfouk – What the public thinks about regularising undocumented migrants depends on how it is framed

May 25, 2026 Ben 0

Regularisation campaigns create more equal and just societies and have benefits for everyone, but the public doesn’t often hear that message. Jean-Michel Lafleur is the Director of the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) […]

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Geopolitics

Eldar Mamedov – EU sanctions on violent Israeli settlers are barely a half measure

May 19, 2026 Ben 0

Given the fact that there are nearly three-quarter of a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, EU sanctions on a handful of them looks like little more than political damage control. […]

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Geopolitics

Michael Roberts – The Thucydides trap and the decline of US imperialism

May 19, 2026 Ben 0

The United States cannot compete with China in the global goods market and this is the key to its decline, but Uncle Sam will not be on his knees any time soon. Michael Roberts is […]

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Energy

Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Dawn of the Electric World Order

May 19, 2026 Ben 0

Global shockwaves from the war on Iran are accelerating the energy transition. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

Euronews – Europe’s poverty divide: Which cities and regions are most and least at risk?

May 19, 2026 Ben 0

One in five people in Europe are in poverty, but the picture varies a lot by country and by region. Read the article HERE.

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, Doug Nicholls

September 4, 2026 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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