Austerity
Bill Hudson: Greek debt update
The eurozone must collapse in the end. If it does not, the entire eurozone will end up looking like Greece looks like today. Greece is the eurozone’s future, if it is kept in place. Read […]
National Politics
EU politics
Aeron Davis: Is the British establishment finally finished?
The British elite in self-destruction mode. Aeron Davis looks at the developments in Britain’s establishment of the past 50 years and why it is inexorably dedicated to destroying itself – unfortunately with a lot of […]
Austerity
Guy Standing – Why Britain’s Tories do not believe in free markets
The claims of Brtain’s Coservative Party amounts to a lie. They have been building the most unfree market system ever conceived. Guy Standing is Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and Professorial Research […]
Austerity
Nadia Garbellini and Matteo Gaddi – Italy: An unholy alliance
Nadia Garbellini is an economist at the Università di Bergamo Matteo Gaddi writes fot the Associazione Culturale Punto Rosso This article is part of a piece that will be published in Italian in inchiesta Number […]
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John Harris: If the elite ever cared about the have-nots, that didn’t last long
Most Remainers’ political analysis goes no deeper than those of the Brexiters. Both have a gut reaction: one knows the EU is destroying their lives, the others know that they profit from it. Read here […]
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Real News.com – Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption
Austerity didn’t produce recovery in Latvia, it produced the semblance of recovery, says white-collar criminologist Bill Black. It also led to rampant criminal activity in the banking sector, such as money laundering, taking bribes, and […]
Austerity
Michael Mair – The UK’s University Strike
The neo-liberal crusade continues. This time it is once again the public sector that is under attack: academics and adminstrators at British universities. We can only wish those striking success an offer our support and […]
EU politics
The Observer: The Observer view on the shambolic way universities are run
In Britain academics are striking to defend their pensions. Pensions are just one of the many targets of neo-liberal policy. Executives at British Universities, whose financing seems to increasingly concentrate on business than education, have […]
EU politics
The Guardian – Revealed: British university vice-chancellors’ five-star expenses
This is not a sensationalist titbit. Currently British academics are striking to protect their pension funds. Once again basic workers’ rights are under attacs. At the same time scandalously high salaries are being paid to […]
EU politics
David Graeber – Why are european leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin?
The Turkish government feels it is critical to send the message to women across the Middle East that if they rise up for their rights, let alone rise up in arms, the likely result is […]