Corruption
d@w Exclusive: Michael Hudson on Junk Economics update 2017
An excellent interview with Michael Hudson. The interview starts with Trump, but quickly moves on.
Privatisation
Austerity
Ania Zalewska – University lecturer explains why academics are striking over pension cuts
Ania Zalewska, University of Bath University staff across the UK are striking over changes to their pensions. Academics at 64 universities, who are members of the University and College Union (UCU) and who are signed […]
Austerity
www.parliament.uk: Carillion paid out £6.4mill to advisors before £10mill taxpayer bailout
The collapse of Carillion, one of the UK’s largest leading construction and service companies, has resulted in important analyses concerning transferring public services to private companies. One of its directors claimed that putting money into […]
National Politics
Times of Malta: France eyes Paris airport, lottery sell-off
Macrons neo-liberal policy becomes clearer. And this is the man who is supposed to reform Europe and make it more responsible to its citizens? How then? Read here
EU politics
Oliver Norgrove: Burst pipes: Why water privatisation failed
Privatisation in Britain has ended ih high prices, poor service, and the infrastructure in tatters. Yet the Conservative Party still sees it as a great British success. Read here
Climate Crisis
Aditya Chakrabortty: The small town that started a community revolution across Europe
Not only did the little community of Wolfhagen in Germany take over its electricity grid from the multi-national E.ON, but in the meantime has gone over to renewable energy. All of this in the hands […]
Climate Crisis
Aditya Chakrabortty – The Alternatives: German town takes power back from energy giants
Not only did the little community of Wolfhagen in Germany take over its electricity grid from the multi-national E.ON, but in the meantime has gone over to renewable energy. All of this in the hands […]
Austerity
Bill Hudson: Greek debt update
The eurozone must collapse in the end. If it does not, the entire eurozone will end up looking like Greece looks like today. Greece is the eurozone’s future, if it is kept in place. Read […]
Austerity
Guy Standing – Why Britain’s Tories do not believe in free markets
The claims of Brtain’s Coservative Party amounts to a lie. They have been building the most unfree market system ever conceived. Guy Standing is Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and Professorial Research […]
Austerity
Nadia Garbellini and Matteo Gaddi – Italy: An unholy alliance
Nadia Garbellini is an economist at the Università di Bergamo Matteo Gaddi writes fot the Associazione Culturale Punto Rosso This article is part of a piece that will be published in Italian in inchiesta Number […]