Solutions
BBC – France closes up to 500 schools Monday over student protests
The kids are revolting! Read the article HERE.
The Commons
Regulation
Paolo Gerbaudo – Spain’s New Protest Movement Is Putting Class Centre Stage
‘The occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol by housing protesters has brought back memories of the anti-austerity revolt that began in 2011. But where the Indignados used generic populist language, this new movement has a […]
National Politics
Laura Wittebroek – Inside Spain’s Housing Crisis: The Eviction of Maricarmen
Maricarmen’s eviction was the straw that broke the camel’s back, sparking the biggest social movement seen in Spain since the ‘indignados’ 15 years ago. Laura Wittebroek is a writer and member of Clamour. Cross-posted from […]
National Politics
Euronews – Protesters camp in Madrid in demonstration against Spain’ housing crisis
Very important protests are taking place in Madrid over the country’s savage housing costs. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Gerhard Klaas – Three months of mass protests in Albania
The media has stopped paying attention but the protests against Jared Kushner’s luxury resort continue. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE.
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Maike Schmidt, Theo Harris – The Private Finance Myth: Why The Market Won’t Solve Europe’s Infrastructure Crisis
Using private finance to build public infrastructure is short-sighted and almost always ends up costing the public purse more in the long run. Maike Schmidt is an assistant researcher at the New Economics Foundation and […]
Environment
Matt Broomfield – Albanians Are Against Jared Kushner’s Israel-Linked Venture
The massive resistance in Albania to Jared Kushner’s attempt to destroy one of the country’s island’s is an inspiration. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Emma Baker, Amy Clair, Mark Stephens – How Britain’s housing crisis contributes to its declining healthy life expectancy
Quality of housing is closely linked to health outcomes, and for Britons who rent in the private sector, the quality of housing is shoddy. Emma Baker is Professor of Housing Research at the Australian Centre […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Economic questions: the Thomas Paine question
Paine is a valuable bridge between moral philosophy and democratic economics as the thinker who insisted that political freedom is meaningless without economic security, and that the legitimacy of any society rests on its willingness […]
EU politics
Euronews – Amazon internet service outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech’
If a Chinese company had gone down and it had knocked out wide sections of Europe’s internet, a continent-wide emergency would have been announced. But when it’s American big tech that goes wrong, there is […]