Climate Crisis
Michael Le Page: Heatwave in China is the most severe ever recorded in the world
A long spell of extreme hot and dry weather is affecting energy, water supplies and food production across China Read Here
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Austerity
David Jamieson – Politics Will Strike Back
An excellent overview of current political and economic situation in Britain and the strikes. David Jamieson is a journalist, writer and socialist activist based in Glasgow. His writing can be found at Jacobin magazine, Bella […]
Austerity
ODR Team – Ukraine’s anti-worker law comes into effect
Law 5371, which strips back labour protections, has been ratified. Is there more to come? Cross-posted from Open Democracy On 17 August, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyi ratified Law 5371, which removes rights for workers at […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Should we be bricking it over BRICs?
It seems the whole approach to global trade is being redrawn. Donald Trump wanted to do less trade with China before the pandemic, and now with the Ukraine invasion the west wants to do less […]
National Politics
Branko Milanović – Why was the Soviet Union created?
Understanding the creation of the Soviet Union and its relation to the national states that joined it. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future […]
Austerity
Richard Murphy – In 2008 we survived, just. Will we this winter? I really am not sure.
Just a wee look at what is brewing in Britain. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. Co-founder of the Green New Deal as well as […]
EU politics
Cyprus Mail: Cuba to send five hundred doctors to Italy’s Calabria region
Another EU success story! Cuba will send nearly 500 doctors to the Calabria region of southern Italy, Cuban state media reported this week, part of a broader program that sends surplus medics from the communist-run […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project – Sweden’s election, the Nordic model and the gig economy: interview w/ GigWatch’s Felix Söderberg & Jacob Lundberg
With elections forthcoming, Söderberg and Lundberg explain that the Swedish model of industrial relations is being used as an excuse not to regulate the gig economy in Sweden. Available to read and to listen as […]
Climate Crisis
The Sydney Morning Herald: French activists fill golf course holes with cement in protest at watering exemptions
Climate activists affiliated with Extinction Rebellion have targeted golf courses in southern France, filling holes with concrete in protest over exemptions from water restrictions during one of the worst droughts on record. Read Here Photo: […]
EU politics
Emmanuel Achiri – Helping asylum seekers in Northern Cyprus
Asylum seekers coming to Cypriot shores is a direct result of violent pushbacks against refugees at the EU’s borders Emmanuel Achiri is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Eastern Mediterranean University Cross-posted from IPS Migrants in […]