Climate Crisis
Common Weal -The Common Home Plan
Why is it that a small think tank of the Scottish Left is able to do something that no government in the world is capable of: Planning a Green New Deal in detail? Common Weal […]
National Politics
Climate Crisis
Investigate Europe: The truth behind the EU’s National Energy and Climate Plans
A litany of evasions, missed deadlines, questionable claims and ignorance…real and feigned. Some member states even openly state that they do not plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Read here
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: British-EU disputes suggest the Tories are set to break away from the sordid Thatcher legacy
Some reflections on the current British-EU stand-off Read here
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – China and Spain: “Re-Educating” Political Prisoners
Re-education, the new excuse for stripping Catalan political prisoners of their rights. Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What Catalans Want Núria Bassa Camps is a Catalan […]
EU politics
Vila Web: Spain loses still another extradition Process against Catalonian Independence Leader
Spain’s third attempt to extradite Lluís Puig met a dead end ten days ago as it was struck down by a Belgian court Read here
EU politics
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy by David Broder
Book Review by Chris Bambery Not so long ago if you heard Italian spoken in the UK you could be reasonably sure that it would be by tourists. In my native Scotland famous Italian Scots […]
EU politics
Chantal Mouffe and Wolfgang Streeck on Left Populism
Chantal Mouffe is the author of For a Left Populism https://www.versobooks.com/books/3097-for-a-left-populism, as well as Gramsci and Marxist Theory, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau), The Return of the Political, and more. See all her […]
Climate Crisis
Frank van Lerven – QE being used to support Fossil Fuel Industry
There has been no change. European governments are using QE to support the environment destroying international corporations. What is occurring in the UK is also happening in the ECB and support programmes by European governments. […]
Corruption
Ben Wray – ‘Where’s Juan?’: Royal corruption puts Spain’s ’78 Regime in the Spotlight
Fascism and corruption seem to be the two mainstays of Spain’s political system. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW EUROPE’S Gig Economy Project. He also produces a morning newsletter called Source Direct […]
EU politics
Philip Rathgeb, Arianna Tassinari – The Eurozone poses Challenges for Labour at large – and not just for the ‘South’
In the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis, trade unions in the Eurozone periphery suffered heavy defeats in policy-making, as governments implemented liberalising reforms against their opposition. Some scholars saw this as indicative of a […]