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Bill Mitchell: Is there hope for a post neoliberal world?
We are all realising that our political class – the large parties and their lobbying machines – only want power. Something has to give. Read Article HERE Photo: Screen grab
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Sergio Cesaratto – EU SCENARIO/ Left-wing and neo-liberal delusions leave Brussels with nothing but war
The currrent failure of the EU and Italy Sergio Cesaratto is Emeritus Professor of European monetary and fiscal policies, International Economics, and Growth and development at the University of Siena Originally posted in Italian in […]
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Aurelien – The World At Eleven…Stop shouting at me.
How we got to where we are is an interesting and depressing story, and one where, curiously, the media probably plays at least as important a role as the people and institutions that were its […]
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Georgios Samaras – Greece’s Broken Democracy Is a Warning for Europe
‘European authorities promote Greece as a postcrisis success story. Yet Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s right-wing government relies on spyware and the opaque use of EU subsidies — and is now overseeing a brutal cost-of-living crisis.’ In Jacobin. […]
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UNI Europa stands in solidarity with Portugal’s workers on general strike
This is the Portuguese labour movement’s first general strike in 12 years, directed against an unjust labour reform. Read Article HERE
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José Álvarez Díaz – When it comes to forest fires, austerity kills
2025 is the first year that a million hectares were burnt in forest fires across Europe, but as the scale of the problem grows the scale of public resources to tackle it does not. José […]
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Steve Keen – “The real problem isn’t deficits, It’s Neoliberalism“
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Richard Murphy – Why is it that the rich always seem to win?
Thomas Piketty called it the most important formula in economics: it’s R > G , which means that the rate of return on capital (R) is greater than the rate of growth in the economy […]
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Richard Murphy – The growth delusion
Martin Wolf of the FT said this week that only economic growth can save democracy. Yet his economics serves only the wealthy. When workers are sacrificed, rents soar, and insecurity spreads, as he demands so […]