Economics
Jalopnik: Uber (Finally) Admits It’s Directly Competing With Public Transportation
Of course capitalism likes to depict itself as one great public service spreading jobs and wealth to the population of this planet. Read here
Privatisation
Austerity
The Full Brexit Network – Left Brexit Tour
Featuring Larry Elliott (Guardian), Grace Blakeley, Costas Lapavistsas, Feyzi Ismail, Eddie Dempsey. If you wish to understand what are the weaknesses of the European Union, here you have many of the reasons.
Austerity
George Hoare: The Full Brexit – towards a political theory of Brexit
Today, 4 March, sees the launch of Transforming Britain After Brexit, the British Left Brexit tour organised by Labour Leave, Trade Unionists Against the EU, the European Research Network on Social and Economic Policy, Polity […]
Economics
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers
Book review by John Tomaney In The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain, Brett Christophers claims that Britain’s biggest and most consequential privatisation is its least known and understood. The Margaret […]
Finance
Liam Farrell – Ireland: ‘We have people without homes and homes without people. Mission not completed.’
Somehow Ireland has rarely been a topic in BRAVE NEW EUROPE except for its tax policies. Our Partners and comrades at The New Pretender posted this and were so kind as to let us present […]
Austerity
Quinn Slobodian – Neo-liberalism
Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, on the history, theory, and practice of the doctrine Listen here
Austerity
The European Illusion – Why We Need New Strategies Towards the EU and Beyond by Attac Austria
Book review by Mathew D. Rose It takes courage these days to write a book critical of the EU, especially from a leftist perspective: to do so in Austria even more so. Austria, like Germany, […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Uber pushed for UK congestion charges that would hit poor hardest
Two neo-liberals have a meeting. A Tory minister, notorious for his incompetence in public transport – or attempt to destroy its credibility, who wishes to further privatise public transport, and the CEO of an international […]
Austerity
David Harvey – A History of Neo-liberalism, Part 1
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at City University of New York and author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism argues with Chris Hedges that Neoliberalism, the manta of the global corporate elites, […]
Austerity
A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past by Pavlos Roufos
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Together with the European Union refugee policy, the EU’s handling of the Greek crisis is the other great disgrace that has scarred its history – our history – in […]