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Craig Mackay – You Need to Balance Your Own Budget but the Government Doesn’t and Shouldn’t.

November 7, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Tory obsession with reducing the deficit with a programme of accelerating austerity is causing increasing harm to the great majority of working people in the UK. By refusing to borrow to invest in infrastructure […]

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Fintan O’Toole: Let’s imagine the homeless have foot-and-mouth

November 7, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Part of neo-liberalism system is to convince us that the abnormal is normal. What we yesterday condemned or found repelling is actually quite alright – normal. Fintan O’Toole iedentifies this process with regard to homelessness […]

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The Guardian: Families thousands of pounds worse off after years of cuts, study finds

November 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Still another report confirming that austerity targets those most vulnerable in society. Better yet, children cannot vote. Read here  

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The Guardian: Child poverty in Britain set to soar to new record, says thinktank

November 2, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Following Gremany’s increase in child poverty, the United Kingdom seems set to follow. Austerity effects those most vulnerable and without a weak voice. Children cannot even vote. This is no coincidence, this is neo-liberalism. Read […]

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Aditya Chakrabortty: A Labour council attacking its own people? This is regeneration gone bad

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a continuation in our series of articles concerning what neo-liberalism looks like from the ground. This time it concerns a “social housing” project in London. Read here  

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George Monbiot: Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy

October 25, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The destructiveness and reach of neo-liberalism is made clear in this piece by George Monbiot. It is a question of felling some trees in the city of Sheffield in the UK, but one can see […]

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The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing

October 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]

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Olivier Tonneau – Macron, Mélenchon and Catalonia: paradoxical realignments

October 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Catalan referendum is throwing up a number of crucial questions concerning democracy in the European Union. Olivier Tonneau analyses this in the context of France. Olivier Tonneau is Lecturer in modern languages, Homerton College, […]

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Richard Murphy – It’s time for the left to promote its own pro-business agenda

October 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

According to Richard Murphy it is time to move on and leave bankrupt neo-liberalism behind. This however means defining progressive goals and the logic behind them. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political […]

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Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins – The Econocracy: On the perils of leaving economics to the experts

September 24, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose I remember as a student at the history department of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s the first time a member of the teaching staff appeared […]

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The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan

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Book Review by Timothèe Parrique This book review originally appeared on Timothée Parrique’s blog The best the degrowth literature has to offer served on a silver platter. That’s how I would describe The Future is Degrowth: […]

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The Destiny of Civilization by Michael Hudson

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In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the ‘dream civilization’ imposed by the 1 percent. By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and cross-posted with The Cradle […]

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