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Dany Dorling – The Demography of Inequality
Austerity is affecting the mortality rate in the UK. Dany Dorling explains why this happens. Listen here
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Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
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Ed Rooksby – Notes on the UCU Strike
“There’s a decent chance, it seems to me, that is, that victory for university workers in this dispute would provide a major boost for organized labour generally.” Ed Rooksby teaches politics at Ruskin College in […]
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Lexit Network – Founding declaration: Austria Self-determined
“Selbstbestimmtes Österreich” (SBÖ, Austria Self-determined) is a new political alliance in Austia. They define four basic lines for their approach on Austrian politics: Democratic, Social, Sovereign, Neutral. The approach is in key points very colse […]
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Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi
Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]
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The Independent: Reject austerity to defeat populism, Portugal’s socialist prime minister António Costa tells EU
Portugal has abandoned austerity – maybe not in a radical manner – but even then the nation’s citizens and economy are faring much better than it ever did under austerity. Read here
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John Weeks – New EU Appointments Will Consolidate Austerity Policies
Austerity continues unabated in Britain and the EU. Behind a conflict that obsesses corporate media lies a basic consensus: neo-liberalism John Weeks is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London, and associate of Prime Economics […]
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Michael Mair – Fateful (Dis)Junctures, An Update on the UK’s University Strike
The university strike in UK has seen some dramatic developments this week. In his third report (read the first here the second here) Michael Mair brings us up to date. Dr Michael Mair is a […]
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Lina Galvez – For those who did not strike
On 8 March there was a feminist strike throughout Spain consisting of three components: a labour strike, a consumer strike, and a care strike. In the case of the care strike, men were asked to […]
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Thomas Piketty: Towards a Union in the Union
“The threat to the world today is not a trade war but a social war, conducted by means of aggressive policies of fiscal dumping which benefit the wealthiest and the most mobile.” Read here