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ekathimerini-com: Greece’s population in rapid decline
Northern European nations – the New Hansa – need cheap, will trained workers. Now we know where the will come from. Read here
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Raoul Vaneigem – Concerning the “Yellow Jackets”: Everything is possible, even self – managing assemblies in the middle of street intersections, villages and neighborhoods
An interesting take on the Giletes Jaunes. Great read over the holidays. Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer known for his 1967 book The Revolution of Everyday Life Read here
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Chris Bambery – Will 2019 see any resolution in the troubled relationship between Spain and Catalonia?
The Catalan independence movement has become bogged down in internal political divisions. The movement lacks a progressive vision capable of mobilising a large majority of Catalans, resorting instead to portraying itself as a victim. Chris […]
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João Paulo Batalha – Austerity hardwired into the EU: Mired in strikes, is Portugal’s anti-austerity oasis nothing but a mirage?
This article is BRAVE NEW EUROPE’s Christmas gift to our readers. It is the first in our series of articles entitled “Neo-liberalism hardwired into the EU”, which will become an established entity in our website. […]
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Luke Telford – Brexit: Understanding Leave Voters’ Motivations in Northeast England
As the debate around Brexit becomes increasingly hysterical and at moments absurd, we would like to remind our readers that Brexit is actually about people who were fed up with their political class. We at […]
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Politico: Macron ‘lost authority’ after caving to Yellow Jackets, says Oettinger
The EU hegemon speaks. This is the same German Commissioner who called upon the markets to crush Italian state finances if the government passed a budget above a deficit of 2 %. Read here
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Aditya Chakrabortty: There’s a national emergency all right – but it isn’t Brexit
“As another vote looms amid the pantomime of Westminster, the core issues behind leave’s win have been ignored. ” The lessons of austerity and neo-liberalism is being forcefully ignored by those who profit from it. […]
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Kate Connolly: ‘We are becoming a joke’: Germans turn on Deutsche Bahn
Depressing wages, slashing investment, reducing taxes for corporations and the rich. German austerity to drive its export economy in support of international corporations. The Deutsche Bahn is a typical victim of this austerity. What the […]
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Stavros Mavroudeas – The Greek budget and the mobilisations against it
This is another austerity budget dictated by the EU despite being promoted by the SYRIZA as the first ‘free’ state budget. It places again the burden on the shoulders of the working people and the […]
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Larry Elliot: We’re back to the 1930s politics of anger and, yes, appeasement
“Brexit is not the most important issue facing the world; it is not even the most important issue facing Britain.” “Katowice was the real Munich and the feeble UN accord the equivalent of the piece […]