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Aditya Chakrabortty – The Alternatives: how Preston took back control
How globalisation can be stopped while communities flourish Listen here
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Yanis Varoufakis – How Failing Institutions Boost Inequality
A short lecture concerning the absurdities encountered by Yanis Varoufakis during his stint as Finance Minister of Greece and the grave consequences they had.
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Aditya Chakrabortty: Why do we let greedy financiers profit from the pain of foster children?
Privatisation is destroying our society. Once again Aditya Chakrabortty takes a tiny sliver of society and shows how the “free market” is destroying everything it touches, be it people or environment. Profit is all that […]
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Bill Mitchell: Greece – the next bailout is just around the corner
Greece has disappeared from the headlines, but its disastrous economic state has changed little. Bill Mitchell looks at the nation that purportedly turned the corner. Read here
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Jihen Chandoul: The IMF has choked Tunisia. No wonder the people are protesting
The IMF claims to have learnt from its mistakes and writes lovely papers criticising its own policies of the past. Still they have not swerved an inch from their traditional policy of brutal austerity. Read […]
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Richard Murphy – Is realism the new ‘ism’?
This article is sure to provoke debate. Richard Murphy is a catalyst who drives political and economic discussions forwards and this article is no exception. With neo-liberalism going from crisis to crisis in the UK, […]
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German Foreign Policy – Tunisia: Pushed into a Dead End
After Greece, Germany appears to be set for a repeat performance in Tunisia. Read here
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João Paulo Batalha – The “captivating” tightrope walker: what to expect from the new Eurogroup head
Portuguese Finance minister Mário Centeno, hailed as the man who took on austerity and won, is taking over as Eurogroup head. What difference will he make? João Paulo Batalha is a social activist and founding […]
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Desmond Cohen – Not in it together: the distributional impact of austerity
Are people being taxed fairly? Not in Britain. New data reveals how the tax and benefit changes made since 2010 have disproportionately fallen on the poorest, ethnic minorities, women, children and the disabled. Read here
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Larry Elliot: Brexit: why the UK economy hasn’t led to buyer’s remorse
Are 51,9 % of Britains neo-fascist berks? Or did those who voted for Brexit have political and economics reasons for doing so? Remainers seem not to be posing this salient question: “Remain’s proponents have spent […]