Writer Pavlos Roufos reviews eight years of managed disaster for Greece under Europe’s austerity regime – from the roots of the crisis in both internal politics and international finance, to the perverse structure of EU-imposed […]
2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the stock market crash of 2008; the current financial malaise is the result of the bank bailouts, not the crash; an over-indebted economy cannot be saved unless the banks […]
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Do you have a feeling something is going seriously wrong in the EU with the rise of neo-fascism, inequality, and power of corporations, but cannot quite put your finger […]
Progressive municipalist city governments from Barcelona, to Naples, to Grenoble have introduced important policies to promote citizen participation, public ownership of services, expanded affordable housing, urban ecology and sustainable energy, better transparency and accountability, and […]
This article demonstrates only too well how financialisation of housing is transforming living space it into a commodity, in this case in London. Matt From London/Flickr., CC BY Rowland Atkinson, University of Sheffield More than […]
Who says that trickle down does not work?. For almost two years progressive economist have been hammering away that although governments have debts, they also have assets. Translated, you may have a mortgage of 100,000 […]
One country that symbolised the crisis of the last 10 years was Greece. Its insolvency embarked the country on a long regime of bail-outs and austerity. This August, Greece officially emerged from the crisis, with […]
FRENCH socialist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon said that France should leave the EU if it proves impossible to renegotiate treaties that are “incompatible” with his party’s socialist programme. Read here
It appears that Alexis Tsirpas`s socialists have become true social democrats. Read here
Alexis Tsipras’s government promised to end austerity. Now it’s defending the banks against people evicted from their homes — and persecuting those who protest. Read here
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