Workers at Amazon warehouses and distrbution centres have staged protests – over low pay, poor working conditions and climate concerns – across Europe and the USA to coincide with the online retailer’s annual discounted shopping day, Black Friday. Protests have continued to cover Cyber Monday, another crucial sales period for Amazon.
Economics
Iain Macwhirter: Carillion and the RBS ‘hang themselves’ memo proves it’s all over for neoliberalism
“This era of capitalism is already a dead parrot.” Thus ends the article. All before it is just as straightforward – and that in a newspaper that is not lefitst! Read here
Economics
Branko Milanovic: The influence of Karl Marx—a counterfactual
A good piece wirtten on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth. Read here
Austerity
Ann Pettifor: Passing the Buck & Losing… by imposing the cost of the Green Deal on Europe’s insecure 99%
In this short interview segment I talk about two issues I’m really passionate about. Read HERE
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