Finance
Richard Wilkinson – Health and Inequalities
Inequality creates the social and political divisions that isolate us from each other.
Inequality
Economics
David Harvey – The Financialisation of Power
David Harvey is the foremost Marxist thinker about political economy and has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for over 40 years. He currently teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Prof. Harvey has written […]
EU politics
Basic Income Network Italia – The linguistic scam of Italy’s ‘citizenship income’
Outside of Italy there is hardly any real information concerning the policies of the new Lega/5 Star Movement coalition. In this article Roberto Ciccarelli claims that the 5 Star Movement´s citizenship income is Germany´s neo-liberal Hartz […]
Austerity
Ashoka Mody: Fall of the eurozone’s saviours: Why Emmanuel Macron is following Matteo Renzi’s path to political oblivion
They inherited poorly performing economies that bred widespread social and political discontent, argues Ashoka Mody, and both leaders unwisely followed the traditional European recipe of ‘labour reforms’ Read here
EU politics
Brian Milstein – The Brexit vote and Trump’s election were decided democratically. So why don’t they feel that way?
This is a brilliant piece. Once democratic institutions break down, so does democracy. The current mainstream discourse concentrates on the latter, ignoring that political parties and the media have abandoned democracy assuming there was no […]
Environment
Nick Dearden: Tricks of the trade
Liam Fox is planning bargain-basement trade deals for Brexit Britain – but Labour policy promises to deliver trade justice and democracy for the many. Read here
Austerity
Michael Hudson – Rescuing the Banks Instead of the Economy
2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the stock market crash of 2008; the current financial malaise is the result of the bank bailouts, not the crash; an over-indebted economy cannot be saved unless the banks […]
Corruption
Sergi Cutillas and Josep Vendrell – Forensic analysis of the Spanish financial crisis
We admit this is a very long read, but it does explain very well the property crash in Spain, the corruption in Spanish banks, and how they too capitalised on the crisis to increase their […]
Economics
Guy Standing – How the precariat – and UBI – can stop neoliberalism from destroying the planet
Taxes on exploiting the commons – both exhaustible and non-exhaustible resources – could be used to give people basic financial security. Dr Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda: Interview with Jason Hickle
This is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking interview, chock full of fresh thinking on sustainability, poverty and inequality, and the impact of the western-led development agenda across the world. Jason paints an eye-opening picture of the […]