Austerity
Green New Deal
Globalisation
Bela Galgóczi: A “Car Crash” Made in Europe – And How to Fix It
Europe’s car industry has lost ground to China by failing to adapt to electrification, but it still makes up the largest share of European manufacturing jobs: if it is to survive, it will have to […]
Climate Crisis
“An eco-socialist strategy questions the power of capital”: Interview w/ Ulrich Brand
A new book, Capitalism at the Limit, explores how the socio-ecological dimension of our planetary crisis interacts with capitalism. Zeynep Öztürk is a PhD researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of […]
Climate Crisis
Serena Di Luccio – Three reasons why renewable energy is still Europe’s best solution
A massive expansion of renewable energy capacity in Europe is the answer to the continent’s geopolitical, industrial and cost-of-living problems. Serena Di Luccio is Positive Money’s EU Advocacy and Campaigns Manager. Cross-posted from Positive Money […]
Climate Crisis
The Belt and Road 2.0 – Interview w/ Mathias Larsen
Tim Sahay speaks to Mathias Larsen about China’s staggering investment in clean tech manufacturing outside of China. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Politico – EU countries blow climate deadline, putting funds for vulnerable people at risk
EU are wrestling with the best way to displace the cost of the green transition onto the poorest, the opposite of a ‘Just Transition’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Scotonomics – MMT and the Climate Movement
MMT and the Climate Movement Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) discusses fiscal space—the ability for governments to create currency and spend on the public purpose—not in monetary terms but in functional terms: the question is not […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – The EU’s Dirty Industrial Deal
Your main questions answered about what the European Commission’s so-called ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ is and how it fits into President Von Der Leyen’s ‘competitiveness’ agenda. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group […]
Finance
Paolo Gerbaudo – Global BYD
‘Amid the intensifying retreat of American hegemony, an alternative geo-economic and geopolitical arrangement is coming into view: a battery-powered globalization with Chinese characteristics. Chinese EV manufacturer has recently raced ahead of Tesla in global EV […]
Green New Deal
Brian Leishman – The Unjust Transition
‘If Labour carries on with its baffling refusal to save Grangemouth oil refinery, hundreds of workers will lose jobs, Scotland could face fuel shortages, and – once again in British history – an entire community […]