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slugger o’toole: The secret of surviving the cuts is easy – just don’t be poor…
Austerity in Northern Ireland Read here
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Ada Colau: Europe must act to protect the rights and freedoms of Catalans
From The Guardian Ada Colau is the mayor of Barcelona. She was one of the founders of the anti-eviction Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) in Spain. Read here
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Irish Examiner: AIB to pay no corpo tax for 20 years: CEO
First the taxpayer bailed out the Irish banks. Now the Allied Irish Bank is permitted to defer taxes on these losses – for 20 years! What was that about getting screwed coming and going? Read […]
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Lina Gálvez – On narratives and break-ups: the Brexit referendum and the Catalonian independence initiative compared
Are there parallels between the Brexit referendum and Catalonia’s process of independence? Does a return to national sovereignty offer a restoration of democracy and prioritisation of the common good that are lacking in supranational institutions […]
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Edward Luce ─ The Retreat of Western Liberalism (moderated by Mark Blyth)
Join Financial Times chief U.S. columnist and commentator Edward Luce for a discussion of his latest book, The Retreat of Western Liberalism. The discussion will be moderated by Mark Blyth, Eastman Professor of Political Economy […]
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Simon Wren-Lewis: Uber and the anti-regulations bandwagon
The tide seems to be turning concerning the Gig Economy in Britain. Workers, supported by the unions, are winning one court case after the other to be recgonised for what they are: employees. Wren-Lewis looks […]
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Victoria Canning and Alice Minor – Women Refugees in Denmark
Scandinavia is seen as a haven of tolerance. That reputation is wearing thin in Denmark Victoria Canning is Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University Alice Minor is a project worker at DIGNITY – Danish […]
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Branco Milanovic: How I lost my past
“There is an almost daily and active rewriting of history to which many people from Eastern Europe participate: some because they do have such memories, some because they force themselves (often successfully) to believe that […]
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Bill Mitchell and Thomas Fazi – Against supranationalism: in defence of national sovereignty (and Brexit)
Economist Bill Mitchell and political theorist Thomas Fazi reconceptualise the nation state as a vehicle for progressive change. They show how despite the ravages of neoliberalism, the state still contains resources for democratic control of […]
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Paul Mason: The AfD’s breakthrough shows that parties of the left must get radical
From The Guardian If Europe’s social democrats wish to save themselves from extinction then they will have to become, well, er…, social democratic. Read here