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George Packer – USA: We Are Living in a Failed State
This is a powerful piece, which might make some people view the EU in its true condition: a failed union. Read here
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Alberto ‘Tito’ Álvarez – The Spanish Taxi Drivers’ War on Uber and “Platform Capitalism”
In early 2014 taxi drivers in Barcelona rebelled against the unbridled growth of Uber, the online ride service. In six years they have turned that fight into a general offensive against “platform capitalism” in the […]
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Carolina Alves, Farwa Sial – COVID-19: How the UK’s Economic Model Contributes toward a Mismanagement of the Crisis
The current model of capitalism and its response to crisis is not only inadequate, it continues to fail in protecting the most vulnerable and assuring safety for households. Carolina Alves is Joan Robinson Research Fellow […]
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Chris Myant – That “After coronavirus” that Macron has promised
A hard long look at austerity and neo-liberalism in France under Macron leading to the Coronavirus fiasco the nation is entering. Read here
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Emma Clancy – Austerity Kills: EU Commission Demanded Cuts to Public Healthcare Spending 63 Times from 2011-2018
The truth is that these things always end up being caused by EU neo-liberal policy, although they receive support from the various national governments, who like the EU politicians and technocrats, want to collect the […]
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Sergi Cutillas – Interregnum Climax: The Impact of Coronavirus on the EU and the Transformative Possibilities of its Response
The Coronavirus is exposing the failure of a neo-liberal EU. Sergi Cutillas analyses the current situation. Sergi Cutillas is an Economist Researcher at the Ekona Economic Innovation Center and Member of the EReNSEP In recent […]
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Phil Leeke – The UK University Strike: Don’t Skimp on the Rivets
For those of you that have spent your week on the picket line, and for those of us who are supporting this strike because we received good university educations from dedicated and content staff and […]
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IATP – There’s Nothing “Mini” About the U.S. Plan to Unravel Europe’s Precautionary Principle
There are no policies or precautions that the neo-liberal EU hegemon Germany is not prepared to sacrifice to export its cars – or burn its lignite, export its carcinogenic pesticides, etc. The Institute for Agriculture […]
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Michael Roberts – Japan: Abenomics revisited
A good analysis of the failings of the Japanese economy, which are becoming increasingly similar to those of other developed economies. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted […]
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Jule Goikoetxea – Spain: The Coalition Government, TINA, and the Wolf
From certain sectors of the left, the coalition agreement has been presented as the only alternative to fascism, breathing life into everything that it had previously criticized so much: the neoliberal regime of 1978. Jule […]