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 […]
Privatisation
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 […]
Corruption
Craig Mackay – Endemic Corruption in the UK?
Europeans believe they have very little corruption. That is because laws have been created to make corrruption legal – at least when it is on a large scale. Read here
EU politics
Aditya Chakrabortty – The Alternatives: how a Liverpool suburb upended its housing market
This is the real stuff: Taking back power. After decades of neglect from local government, the the citizens of the Granby area in Liverpool took matters into its own hands to provide affordable housing. Read […]
Deregulation
Asbjørn Wahl – The Crisis of Social Democracy
In Norway the labour Party “changed from being a mass organization for working people into an administrator of the class compromise”, writes Asbjørn Wahl. Neo-lieralism has no desire for compormise and thus no use for […]
Deregulation
Ann Pettifor – The financialisation of the housing market
Sky.rocketing house prices have nothing to do with a shortage of housing. It is the result of speculation. To make matters worse, property has become financialised, thus converting it from a place to live and […]
EU politics
New Weather Institute – Crapitalism: & the alternatives to ‘big’ outsourcing
Taking back power means taking back control of the ecnomic system. Privatisation has stolen public wealth and is now leaving behind a bill as well, such as for unpaid pension contributions and taxes. Lindsay Mackie […]
Finance
New Economics Foundation: THE UNHEARD STORIES OF PRECARIOUS WORK
Outsourcing and the gig economy have become modern slavery. It is very convenient to ignore because it is cheap and hidden. Except for those who have to earn their living from it. Read here
EU politics
Renegade Inc – Digital is killing democracy: André Krouwel
A big assumption we make when talking about the internet and social media is that it is a power for good and enhances democracy. But what if this assumption is out of date and instead […]