Deregulation
Loren Balhorn: Order Prevails
A look at the municipal politics of Berlin, where hopes have been dashed that a referendum win in 2021 would bring a breakthrough on the rent problem. Read the article HERE.
Privatisation
Austerity
James K. Galbraith: The Austerity Train Wreck
A skewering of the brutal austerity in Greece which led to the country’s train disaster. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Andreas Sartzekis: Rail disaster in Greece: “Our dead, their profits”
This article on ‘International Viewpoint’ documents the dilapidated and privatised state of Greece’s railways. Read the article HERE.
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Océane Blavot, Rodolfo Bejarano, Mae Buenaventura: Down With Public-Private Partnerships. Up With a Future That Is Public
On the ‘Santiago Declaration for Public Services, an agreement signed by more than 200 organisations after a conference in Santiago de Chile of over 1000 people on the future of public services. Océane Blavot is […]
Austerity
Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai – Introducing the Geopolitical Economy Hour
In a new podcast, every fortnight economies Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson will discuss major developments in the fast-changing world of geopolitical economy. In this first podcast, they introduce the themes they will discuss and […]
Austerity
Danny Dorling – How austerity caused crisis in Britain’s national health service
The Health and Social Care Act of 2010 – privatisation by stealth – has been a slow-burn disaster for Britain’s National Health Service Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford […]
Economics
Philip Cunliffe – Sovereignty and Industrial Relations
The relationship between Britain’s current strike wave and Brexit. Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor of International Relations · UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR). He is also one of the founding editors of […]
Deregulation
Konrad Bleyer-Simon: Another Internet is Possible
How the internet became a tool for profit, and how to change it. Cross-posted from Green European Journal Few would dispute that the early years of the internet were promising. But exactly when those early […]
Economics
Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Public Ownership Is About Democracy’
Public ownership isn’t just more effective, it’s more democratic – it’s time to take vital services like rail, mail, energy, and water out of the control of remote CEOs and unaccountable shareholders. Read Here
Deregulation
Michael Hudson – Oligopoly Unchecked
A long weekend read covering a lot of essential economic and political terrain. Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research […]