EU politics
Bill Mitchell – Wolfgang Schäuble is gone but his disastrous legacy will continue
Bill Mitchell has a long, hard look at the legacy of Germany’s outgoing finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Read here
EU politics
EU politics
Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte: Catalonia’s fight is driven by a passion for neighbourhood, not nationhood
The authors write: “The international community still fails to recognise that the region has witnessed an unprecedented revolution in participative democracy that started long before the referendum, and will almost certainly outlast any constitutional settlement.” […]
EU politics
Jonathan Burnett – Work, capital and the ‘administration of punishment’
Workfare is a British government policy whereby individuals must undertake work, often unpaid, in return for their benefit payments or risk losing them. It is not only part of Britain’s austerity regime, but has been […]
EU politics
Kalwinder Sandhu: It’s no surprise that black and Asian women are hit hardest by austerity
In no nation Europe are the effects of austerity so well documented as in Britain – not that they are necessarily worse than in other parts of Europe, but simply not being reported. At BRAVE […]
Austerity
The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Why I’m not a lefty
This is Chris Dillow at his Marxist best. He has resumed the discussion concerning some crucial issues of leftist policies in the US and Europe and many leftists’ inability to connect or empathise with the […]
EU politics
UNOG: SWITZERLAND NEEDS TO STEP UP WORK TO CURB ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS – UN EXPERT
The UN is always very diplomatic in its criticism, thus this is saying that Switzerland is continuing its old money laundering and tax regime practices . With regard to money laundering they write: “It is […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: I hope Catalonia stays with Spain, but I support its right to leave
Owen Jones may not be for Catalonia’s independence from Spain, but he recognises that all people have a right to self-determination: “I have little truck with pro-independence movements unless a nation is oppressed, like those […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis and James K. Galbraith: Why Europe Needs a New Deal, Not Breakup
“The EU is facing a crisis of legitimacy – but retreating to the nation-state will only benefit the far right.” The authors set out a plethora of programmes to save the EU. Read here
EU politics
Heikki Patomäki – On the conditions of successful social democratic alternatives
Globalisation has ravaged the economies and societies in the industrialised world. Uneven growth and deindustrialisation are causing political turmoil. The left, trapped in a limited territorial state, is likely to fail even if it wins […]