The best way to help workers is to create conditions which increase their bargaining power – which give them the option of using Johnny Paycheck’s words: “take this job and shove it”.
Corruption
Finance Watch: Still Going Round in Circles: The Revolving Door Between Banks And Their Regulators
This week, the too-big-to-fail bank lobbyist Jose Manuel Campa has been nominated to be the new head of the European Banking Authority – the very authority that is in charge of supervising those powerful banks. […]
Fake News
Tom Mills and Dan Hind: Public Ownership of the Public Sphere
Two quotes from long ago sum up the current situation in the Media: A. J. Liebling wrote „Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one”; and Hannen Swaffer claimed “Freedom of […]
Austerity
Left Voice – The Robin Hoods of France: Electrical Workers Cut Electricity to Sell-Out Union, Reconnect for Country’s Poor
In the past few months the electrical workers of France have taken up the mantle of Robin Hood by cutting power to the rich and reconnecting the poor. Most recently, on January 20, the power […]
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