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Philip Cunliffe: Why university staff are right to strike
Marketisation threatens the very purpose of our universities. Read here
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France24: Strike paralyses France in showdown over pension reforms
Macron continues his neo-liberal crusade. Read here
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Bill Mitchell: European Union – business as usual as the madness continues
“With another cyclical downturn approaching, the European Commission continues to conduct its affairs in a sort of time warp, divorced from reality.” Read here
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Michael Mair – Tectonic Shifts: An Update on the UK University Strike
It does not matter where you look in Europe, neo-liberalism’s inexorable crusade of destruction through financialisation and marketisation continues. The only line of defence we have left is direct action. This is once again being […]
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Heiner Flassbeck – Germany: Political Amateurs and the Intelligentsia
We all knew that German politicians from Merkel’s Union and the Social Democrats could walk the Zombie Walk, but could they talk the Zombie Talk? Of course they can, and did, explains Heiner Flassbeck. Heiner […]
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Bill Mitchell – Data suggests a unilateral Greek exit would have been much better than their colonial future under the Troika
The damage done to Greece will not disappear – at least not for decades. Read here
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Peter McPhee – We Live in a World of Upheaval. So Why Aren’t Today’s Protests Leading to Revolutions?
Today’s protests are driven more by anger over social and economic inequity than deep-seated grievances against a regime. Orlando Barria/EPA Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne We live in a world of violent challenges to the […]
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Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
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Yanis Varoufakis – Why is economics not a force for good and what must we do to make it so?
“At the Cambridge Union on 7th November 2019 Yanis Varoufakis smashed the academic boundary walls of economics in style. His critical principles come from his characteristic cool iconoclasm – he has ‘zero respect for economists’ […]
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Robin McAlpine: Stop Feigning Confusion at Public Ownership; it’s not Complicated
When one reads an article like this, it becomes painfully clear how bankrupt Europe’s political class is. While politicians pretend they are the high priests of complicated truths, which we daily realise are lies, we […]