Inequality
Guthrie Scrimgeour – You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns
‘Welcome to the fully privatised city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Privatisation
Austerity
DW News: German welfare state ‘can no longer be financed’ — Merz
The shift from welfare state to warfare state is in full motion. Read the article HERE.
Environment
Kate Bayliss, Gwyn Bevan – Only public ownership of Britain’s water system will solve its crisis
England and Wales’ polluted water is a monument to the disaster of privatising public resources. Kate Bayliss is a Research Associate at SOAS University of London. She has been working on the political economy of […]
Environment
Emma Belmonte – On Sale for One Euro: Will Albania’s Forests Go Private?
We are still living in a time where, whatever the question, the answer of politicians is: privatisation. Emma Belmonte is a freelance journalist with a double specialisation covering Europe and Asia. After gaining expertise in […]
Deregulation
BBC – Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK
The UK Government seems cock-a-hoop for robo-taxis, despite the destructive consequences for jobs, congestion and potentially road safety. Read the article HERE.
Austerity
Ann Pettifor: Balshazzar’s Feast, the US dollar and the ‘Invisible Hand’
Too little regulation, of too little government, of deregulation and lawlessness, amount to “the writing on the wall” for the empire that is the United States of America Read Article HERE
Austerity
Aurelien – What We Have.
The new is dying, but the old cannot be reborn. What do we do? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack These essays have developed a reputation in some quarters for being pessimistic. That wasn’t the intention—I just […]
Deregulation
Aurelien – The End?
There must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that […]
Finance
Hossein Zarei – What caused the crisis at British Steel?
Decades of neglect of the UK’s industrial base has led to a situation where the UK Government has had to step in to stop the last steel plant in the country from closing, but the […]
Austerity
Taking Back Control? – States and State Systems After Globalism by Wolfgang Streeck
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose It is difficult to believe that it is just over thirty years since the establishment of the unipolar world under the US, the end of history, and the victory […]