Corruption
Tax Justice Network – October Podcast
In edition 70 of the Taxcast we look at the booming business of passports and residency for sale, and why it should worry us all. Also: even the IMF now advocates wealth taxes to combat […]
EU politics
EU politics
Thomas Frank: What Harvey Weinstein tells us about the liberal world
While the media has concentrated on the salacious episodes of Harvey Weinstein’s crimes against women. Thomas Frank has taken a political prespective – and as always in the case with his analyses, thought provoking. Read here
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Why conservatives should be Corbynistas
“Bourgeois virtues pay off in a bourgeois society – where there is a large middle class. But they don’t pay off in a 1% takes all society where wealth is accumulated in shadier ways.” Read […]
EU politics
Olivier Tonneau and Sophie Rauszer – Plan B vs EU: Refoundation before dislocation
As a new financial crisis threatens the world, actors of the radical Left will convene at the fifth Plan B summit to save Europe from the neoliberal regime leading it to the abyss. Olivier Tonneau […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: British banks can’t be trusted – let’s nationalise them
Brexit is going in directions that no one even contemplated before the referendum – Britain rethinking its economic future. This is not the stuff of ultra-conservatives and racists, but a left that is discovering that […]
Energy
Hulya Dagdeviren – Control of the Energy Sector
The British government’s energy policy is marked by poor performance and high costs for consumers. While energy companies rake in massive profits and repeatedly introduce steep price increases, they treat their customers with contempt and neglect. There is great […]
EU politics
Social Mobility Commission of the UK: Low pay and progression in the labour market
This – once again- puts paid to the claim that Jobs with low pay lead to well paid, permanent employment. Read here
EU politics
Left Foot Forward: Excessive and bullying police tactics show how the fracking debate is being lost in the UK
Fracking in Britain is an issue that has caused a great deal of protest at the local Level – and massive police repression. See our in depth article on the topic here Read here
EU politics
Miguel Guerra: Catalonia – Empire strikes back
Guerra describes the roots of Catalan discontent with Spain’s national government, especially with the corruption and austerity policy of the Partido Popular of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Published in Renegade Inc. Read here […]
EU politics
Ivan Horrocks – Ideology not money is why affordable NHS healthcare is not a proposition
The crisis in the health services in many European nations has nothing to do with deficits and government debt. Austerity is a weapon to destroy social programmes, including health, not to improve them. Ivan Horrocks is […]