John Gomez / Shutterstock John Weeks, SOAS, University of London The term “fiscal” comes from the Latin for “purse”. When it comes to fiscal policy – how the government manages the country’s budget […]
Romania has experienced large anti-government protests on multiple occasions in the last few years, most recently in August this year. Yet as Daniel Brett explains, the achievements of these protests have been modest and short-lived, […]
Piketty brings together two simple phenomena: a neo-liberal EU resulting in a neo-liberal/far-right success – in this case in Italy. Read here
The EU must develop the capacity “to shape global affairs” and act as “architect of tomorrow’s world,” declared Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission during his “State of the Union” speech yesterday. The speech […]
Fatherland and Constitution, Patria e Costituzione, is a and left-wing political association founded in Italy in September 2018 by Stefano Fassina, a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Free and Equal (Liberi e […]
From the UK to Greece, women have been hit hardest by austerity policies since the 2008 financial crisis. This month, 50.50 will spotlight our stories of resistance. Nandini Archer is a human rights activist, writer […]
Following years of neo-liberal regimen under the right-wing Partido Popular under its leader Mariano Rajoy, the social democrats (PSOE), led by Pedro Sánchez, are now under pressure to reverse these policies, something that they appear to […]
Maybe there is an international leftist movement gaining traction – although this would just be a beginning. See the piece by Yanis Varoufakis on this topic here Read here
“In the autumn of 2008 events unfolded in Wall Street that the crushing majority of people around the world had been led to believe could never occur. It was the financial equivalent of watching the […]
The UK’s coalition government, which entered power in 2010, adopted a policy of spending cuts in the aftermath of the financial crisis. As Thiemo Fetzer writes, the resulting ‘austerity shock’ had a clear political impact, […]
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