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Michael Roberts – The State of Capitalism
“The State of Capitalism is an exercise in hard analysis and there is much to learn and debate. In that sense, the book is a must read…” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]
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Mathew D. Rose – The Genocide Germans: What do Germany’s Crises mean for the European Union?
Germany with its EU hegemony is forcing the union to adopt its self-harm policies Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE […]
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John Feffer – How Can Workers Ensure the ‘Just Transition’ Is Truly Just?
The global economy is already undergoing its most fundamental transformation since the Industrial Revolution; if workers and trade unions are at the table negotiating the transition, the process has a greater chance of being equitable […]
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Thomas Fazi: Jacques Delors destroyed the European Left
By the time the Delors Commission came to an end, in 1995, much of the groundwork for the techno-authoritarian and anti-democratic juggernaut that the EU would later become was laid — and, to a large […]
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The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched The Few and Failed the Poor – A Two Hundred Year History by Stewart Lansley
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Michael Hudson is one of the most brilliant political economists of our time. In his prodigious and prolific thinking one often encounters a thought, many just one sentence, that […]
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The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Upon finishing The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by SOAS economics professor Costas Lapavitsas and the other ten members of the EReNSEP Writing Collective my question was: […]
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Amy Brown: Having a single parent doesn’t determine your life chances – the data shows poverty is far more important
The right-wing press love to stigmatise single parenting but it’s not backed up by the evidence. Amy Brown is Professor of Child Public Health at Swansea University. Cross-posted from The Conversation Numerous research studies have […]
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Steve Keen, Michael Hudson – Economists as Hired Guns
How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World 13. November 2023 from the podcast demystifysci Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics […]
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Emma Dowling – Rethinking Care: From Privatisation to Solidarity
With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity. Emma Dowling is a sociologist at the University of […]
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Niels Nyholt – How school and hospital closures affect political support
A study finds that school closures do move rural communities and the working class away from mainstream parties and towards right-wing populists. Niels Nyholt is a Postdoc in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus […]