Austerity
Noam Chomsky: The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism
Noam Chomsky on a number of topics concerning the inexorable rise of authoritarianism worldwide. Read here
National Politics
Austerity
Counterfire: The Greek fires: a catastrophe fuelled by austerity
Odd, looking for an article concerning the effect of austerity upon Greece’s ability to deal with the fires (there were numerable tweets from Greece on the topic), nothing could be found in corporate media. Read […]
Corruption
The National: Spain – Leader of People’s Party in Catalonia caught up in degree scandal
In Germany around 2010 numerous leading politicians including ministers had to resign as it was revealed that they had copiously plagiarised or had not written their own dissertations. In Spain things seem to be no […]
Economics
Saving Britain by Will Hutton and Andrew Adonis
Book review by David Shirreff This is a passionate, well-argued plea for a European Britain, written by two avowedly socialist Remainers. They will not accept the standard disqualifier: that the EU is a collection of […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Build it in Britain is just sensible logic
On Tuesday Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech announcing plans to change the way the British government spends if he is to be elected: the government would prioritise British producers. Here is Bill Mitchell´s take on […]
EU politics
Positive Money – How Greece lost billions from an obscure ECB programme
Through its peculiar “Securities Market Programme”, the European Central Bank generated billions of profits for creditor Member States such as France and Germany. Positive Money´s research shows that nearly €8 billion have been lost for […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley: A post-Brexit economy must aid the losers of financial globalisation
Rather than chastising pro-Leave citizens for “voting against their interests”, the UK’s political class should mend a broken system. Read here
EU politics
Prem Sikka: There’s only one way to solve inequality and fat-cattery – and it isn’t ‘naming and shaming’
As new figures show wage stagnation for workers – and big pay hikes for bosses – Prem Sikka argues it’s time to bold solutions to the inequality crisis. Read here
Economics
Larry Elliot: Corbyn’s Build it in Britain plan isn’t radical – it’s what other countries do
‘Value for money’ for public contracts is a colossal failure. Labour’s leader is right: the state should support manufacturing Read here
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – How the EU has become an incubator for fascism
What no one is considering is that the resurrection of fascism in the EU could well be a logical consequence of the EU’s policies of the past decades, actually stabilising the European Union and allowing […]