EU politics
Costas Lapavitsas: Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour vs. the Single Market
If the next Labour government is to be truly transformative, it has to free itself from the constraints of the single market. Read here
National Politics
EU politics
Catalan News: Speaker takes judges to court for ‘violating rights’ of jailed MPs
Charges filed against Spain’s Supreme Court Judge Pablo Llarena and three other magistrates Read here
EU politics
The Guardian: Union wins first round in Deliveroo high court employment challenge
They have a long way to go, but this is truly good news. Read here
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis – How the media forgot about the financial crisis and embraced austerity
This is a topic that Wren-Lewis has been pursuing himself for years: following the Great Financial Crisis British corporate Media changed the discourse from the irresponsibility of banks , to one of fiscal prodigality by […]
Austerity
Paul Mason: Donald Trump is a symptom of the new global disorder, not the cause
Neoliberalism and the revolt against austerity have pushed powerful states to impose social and economic pain on each other, or on smaller states. Read here P
EU politics
El Nacional: Catalan government to “immediately” reopen five delegations abroad closed by Spain
Good to see the Catalans not being intimidated by a repressive, undemocratic Spanish government. Read here
Economics
Joseph Stiglitz: The euro could be nearing a crisis – can it be saved?
It is an odd world. Outside of Germany there is a consensus that the Eurozone is dysfunctional. Now we are seeing highly respected academics citing far-right – branded in Germany as fascists – being seen […]
EU politics
Vicent Partal: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez reciprocates Catalonia’s support with disturbing cabinet appointments
Social Democrats always make the same mistake: they try to move right and take votes from conservative parties – and it eventually ends in tears. Spain already has two conservative parties. They hardly need a […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: German press and its politicians lose the plot – Europhiles be warned
You should note that the claim in Der Speigel “Germans would lose all the rescue money they have given to Italy” isutterly false. Italy was not part of any “rescue package”. Der Spiegel is the […]
Austerity
Pluto Press: Grenfell One Year On
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the Grenfell disaster. What is coming to light is that the causes were all elements of austerity Britain: profit, racism, class war, arrogance, contempt. That is not the end […]