EU politics
Prem Sikka: Unpicking the City of London’s new finance sector propaganda
A new report paints a rosy picture of the finance sector’s tax contribution. Prem Sikka digs a bit deeper… Read here
Finance
Corruption
The Guardian: Uber pushed for UK congestion charges that would hit poor hardest
Two neo-liberals have a meeting. A Tory minister, notorious for his incompetence in public transport – or attempt to destroy its credibility, who wishes to further privatise public transport, and the CEO of an international […]
Economics
David Graeber – The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet
If one feature of any truly revolutionary moment is the complete failure of conventional categories to describe what’s happening around us, then that’s a pretty good sign we’re living in revolutionary times. David Graeber is […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – The reality is everything must change
We keep taking our eye off the ball. It is the climate stupid. Changing climate policy includes changing a plethora of arbitrary neo-liberal policies that are not only destroying our planet, but also our societies. […]
Finance
Branko Milanovic – The Inequality Paradox: Rising Inequalities Nationally, Diminishing Inequality Worldwide
Workers in emerging economies benefited from globalization and workers in rich countries, on balance, did not. Overturning globalization, however, will neither work nor bring a real improvement to the Western middle classes. Read here at […]
Economics
Michael Roberts: Back to Front
Is it supply that drives an economy or demand? Read here
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Our manifesto to save Europe from itself
We need to reduce inequality within countries, not between them, and invest in the future of all Europeans Read here
Austerity
@OCCUPYIRTHEORY: Lee Jones – ‘The Full Brexit’
There is not shortage of article and interviews by Remainers that claim that Brexit will make Armageddon look like a picnic. We try to present a leftist Leave position to provide our readers with a […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Italy, France and Germany – How History Forms the Future – Part 2
Anyone who says that the German export boom is a relatively normal event that is the result of German productivity has not studied the relevant figures. The weakness of the German domestic market proves that […]
Economics
David Harvey – A History of Neo-liberalism, Part 2
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at City University of New York and author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism argues with Chris Hedges that Neoliberalism, the manta of the global corporate elites, […]