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Michael Roberts – The State of Capitalism
“The State of Capitalism is an exercise in hard analysis and there is much to learn and debate. In that sense, the book is a must read…” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]
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Mathew D. Rose – The Genocide Germans: What do Germany’s Crises mean for the European Union?
Germany with its EU hegemony is forcing the union to adopt its self-harm policies Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE […]
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John Feffer – How Can Workers Ensure the ‘Just Transition’ Is Truly Just?
The global economy is already undergoing its most fundamental transformation since the Industrial Revolution; if workers and trade unions are at the table negotiating the transition, the process has a greater chance of being equitable […]
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Emma Dowling – Rethinking Care: From Privatisation to Solidarity
With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity. Emma Dowling is a sociologist at the University of […]
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Niels Nyholt – How school and hospital closures affect political support
A study finds that school closures do move rural communities and the working class away from mainstream parties and towards right-wing populists. Niels Nyholt is a Postdoc in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus […]
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Stewart Lansley – Rethinking ‘Crowding Out’ and the Return of ‘Private Affluence and Public Squalor’
The history of ‘crowding out’, and its use as a justification for austerity and state deflation from its origins in the 1920s to its latest post-2010 incarnation Stewart Lansley is Visiting Fellow at the School […]
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Ben Wray – So Far, Britain’s Employers Have Been Winning the Class War Over Inflation
Since inflation started rising, British capitalists have been raking in massive profits while workers have suffered a disastrous wage slump. Yet the Bank of England still wants to boost unemployment in case workers develop their […]
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Mathew D. Rose – Europe: Not reading the writing on the wall
The “European Malaise” is simply the inability of Europe’s neo-liberal political class to comprehend the current geopolitical and economic reality. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and […]
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Polykarpos Georgiadis: In Greece, social despair is helping the rise of fascist conspiracy theories
Greece’s recent elections saw two new far-right parties enter parliament for the first time. Grinding austerity is not fueling continued popular resistance but the rise of conspiracy theorist cranks who promote war among the poor. […]
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Reuters – IMF: British economy will outperform Germany this year
Germans are already regretting having left the EU Read HERE