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Thomas Fazi and William Mitchell: Why the Left Should Embrace Brexit
Remainers claim that Brexit will be an economic apocalypse. But it provides the opportunity for a radical break with neoliberalism. Read here
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Richard Murphy: Tory austerity has delivered the worst decade for UK productivity growth since the 18th century
Should this be a surprise to anyone? The goal of austerity was to increase inequality, primarily at the cost of the poorest and weakest. Nothing more and nothing less. Read here
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Larry Elliot: Some praise our gig economy flexibility. I call it exploitation
While Silicon Valley cannot praise the gig economy enough as a great opportunity, they forget to add that it is a great opportunity for them to earn money, not the workers. Read here
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German Foreign Policy – Germany’s Social Democrats: Further bad news for Greece
The EU hegemon Germany is trying to ensure that no anti-neoliberal policies gain traction in the European Union. It brutally crushed Greece, damning much of its population to poverty, not only to protect its own […]
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Claire Connelly: Dear Tony Blair – the right views on Brexit are wrong
A brilliant article.Claire Connelly is one of the few that realises that Brexit had less to do with the EU than with a society seeking emancipation from the devastation of neo-liberalism and all its political […]
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Owen Jones: Food banks shouldn’t even exist. Don’t let them become the new normal
Unfortunately food banks are the new normal and not only in the UK. In most of the EU you will find food banks or the equivalent run by the Red Cross and other humanitarian organisations. […]
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Lina Gálvez – Spain: The Sullied University
As we are saw in the UK University Strike, universities are under attack by neo-liberalism. Until they have become a profit-generating commodity they are useless. This is no less true in Spain as Lina Gálvez […]
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Amnesty International – Spain: Cruel austerity measures leave patients suffering
While corporate media is talking up the EU’s “robust recovery”, especially in Spain, on the ground things are apparently very different. Read here
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Steve Schifferes – How the media made austerity worse
John Gomez/Shutterstock.com Steve Schifferes, City, University of London The UK financial press was much slower to criticise the austerity policies of the government than in other parts of Europe. This meant that it became accepted […]
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Bill Mitchell: Forget European reform – the Germans have anyway
Regularly the corporate press and its pundits declare that the EU is about to change for the better. The latest was that Macron was going to bring reform. What happened? Then it was the German […]