EU politics
Defend Democracy Press: The Plundering of Greece: Now the Creditors (EU, ECB, IMF) steal even Museums and Monuments
Historical Monuments and Museums are transferred to Greece’s Privatization Fund. Read here Is the Parthenon next?
Privatisation
Deregulation
Quinn Slobodian/Mark Blyth – Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Mark Blyth interviews Quinn Slobodian. Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history [www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979529] of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire […]
Austerity
Adam Tooze, Quinn Slobodian, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian – Neoliberalism’s New World Order
Begins at about 16:00. Join Adam Tooze, Quinn Slobodian, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for a special discussion on neoliberalism, globalization, and the future of democracy Adam Tooze will be holding talks in Berlin on 28 […]
Austerity
Daniel Brett – Why Romania’s protests have failed to bring about real change
Romania has experienced large anti-government protests on multiple occasions in the last few years, most recently in August this year. Yet as Daniel Brett explains, the achievements of these protests have been modest and short-lived, […]
Austerity
Abby Innes – The dismantling of the State since the 1980s: Brexit is the wrong diagnosis of a real crisis
Abby Innes writes that the vote to leave the EU and the administrative chaos around it pull into focus the crisis we should have been talking about before: the failures of homegrown neoliberal policies and […]
Deregulation
Sergio Cesaratto – Democratic sovereignty and genuine internationalism
Sergio Cesaratto looks at why national sovereignity has been so easily hijacked by the right and and needs to be taken back by the left. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Public infrastructure investment must privilege public well-being over profit
The whole machinery of public procurement that has emerged in this neoliberal era needs to be abandoned and replaced with decision-making processes and rules that privilege the advancement of public well-being over profit. Read here
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: These councils smashed themselves to bits. Who will pick up the pieces?
Experts saw it coming – it was inevitable: The neo-liberal discourse that private is better. It is pernicious. The question is when the British will stop voting for Tory ideology and hoping a fairytale will […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Build it in Britain is just sensible logic
On Tuesday Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech announcing plans to change the way the British government spends if he is to be elected: the government would prioritise British producers. Here is Bill Mitchell´s take on […]
Deregulation
Miriam Stewart – Leaking water, draining finance: the case for putting water in public hands
In the middle of a heatwave and drought, it’s not just the leakage allowed by private water companies (as much as people actually use), but the money they drain from a vital piece of our […]