Austerity
German Foreign Policy – Tunisia: Pushed into a Dead End
After Greece, Germany appears to be set for a repeat performance in Tunisia. Read here
Inequality
Economics
Aditya Chakrabortty: Britain is being stalked by a zombie elite – time to take them on
Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people. As gpvernments fail miserably, it is time to take back power. Aditya Chakrabortty is beginning a series of how this is being […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: 2018, the year of Europe
There are some truly shocking numbers in Piketty’s blog: But in Warsaw or in Prague, events are interpreted quite differently. They point out that the rate of return on the private investment from the West […]
Finance
Chris Dillow: GENES & THE LEFT
Eugenics seems to be on the rise again, now that meritocracy has been revealed as a farce, especially with regard to the heirs of the rich. Chris Dillow concludes neither is important for the Left. […]
Economics
Lino Zeddies: Money creation and inequality – an underexposed topic
Wrong! It is not only governments that create money. Financial institutions such as banks do too. Who controls the economy and how? Here some answers to the questions. Lino Zeddies is an economist Cross-posted from […]
Economics
Bernie Sanders: Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires
“We must develop an international movement that takes on the greed and ideology of the billionaire class and leads us to a world of economic, social and environmental justice. Will this be an easy struggle? […]
Deregulation
Yanis Varoufakis: Globalisation is stuck in a trap. What will it be when it breaks free?
Globalisation has been caught in a steel trap of its own making. Its crisis is due to too much money in the wrong hands. Yanis Varoufakis analyses the world crisis and offers concrete solutions. Read […]
Austerity
Desmond Cohen – Not in it together: the distributional impact of austerity
Are people being taxed fairly? Not in Britain. New data reveals how the tax and benefit changes made since 2010 have disproportionately fallen on the poorest, ethnic minorities, women, children and the disabled. Read here
EU politics
arte: HSBC – Gangsters of Finance
Since the 2008 crisis, HSBC has been involved in countless scandals: Money laundering for drug cartels, corruption, tax fraud… And yet the international bank escapes justice with insignificant fines. Why are they “too big to […]
Economics
Daniel Margrain: Socialism for the rich
Taxes are there to take from the poor and give to the rich. Neo-liberalism is socialism turned on its head.”This situation is not only unjust, corrupt and undemocratic, it is unsustainable.” Read here