Economics
Ed Rooksby – On reform, revolution, and socialist strategy
Ed Rooksby joins Politics Theory Other to discuss socialist strategy, Syriza, Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the state and the Corbyn moment in Britain. Listen here
EU politics
EU politics
Reuters: Spain’s Basques form 202-km human chain to call for independence vote
It appears democracy is catching up with the Spanish central government in Madrid. First in Catalonia now in the Basque conuntry. Read here
EU politics
Bağlan Deniz – Turkey: How the Populist Centre-Left is Challenging Erdoğan
Snap presidential elections will take place in Turkey on 24 June 2018. Although the plan of the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was to crush his opponents in a blitz campaign, it seems that the authoritarian Turkish […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – Greece, Germany and the Eurozone
When one views the current political situation in Italy, this lecture has a special relevance. It analyses how Germany crushed Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal and offers a way out of the current EU crisis.You […]
EU politics
Kenan Malik: How we all colluded in Fortress Europe
Kenan Malik provides a razor sharp analysis of EU refugee and migrant policy. The title is however absurd – and may not be from him, but from one of the Guardian’s loftily liberal editors. To […]
Economics
BRAVE NEW EUROPE – Tonight: Lecture with Heiner Flassbeck in Berlin
14 June at 7pm with Heiner Flassbeck (in German only) “Situation der Eurokrise” Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin (“neues deutschland-Haus“), Seminarraum 1 We are guests in the rooms of the German poltitical magazine OXI. Admission: 2 […]
EU politics
The Guardian: Clara Ponsatí accuses Spain of illegal vendetta against Catalan nationalists
The Spanish government of the conservative party has stripped the Spanish justice system of any creditability in the eyes of the international community. What will the Social Democrats do? Probably what Social Democrats always do: […]
EU politics
Steven Forti – Italy: a populist laboratory
Steven Forti tries to identify where the new coalition government in Italy is going. Steven Forti is Researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Professor at the Universitat […]
EU politics
Steven Forti – Spain: Bye bye Mariano Rajoy, good luck Pedro Sánchez
Steven Forti brings us up to speed concerning the latest political developments in Spain. Steven Forti is Researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Professor at the Universitat […]
EU politics
Ashoka Mody – Eurotragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
As Ashoka Mody details in Eurotragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts (Oxford University Press, 2018), however, the euro that emerged was built on a dangerously flawed set of assumptions, ones which have made the euro […]