The challenges of a socially just transition to clean energy, with former Copenhagen City councillor Ulrik Kohl. Kohl, a researcher on community energy in the Nordic countries and Southeast Europe with Malmö University and Roskilde University, spoke about the role of the left and communities in organising grassroots, working class alternatives to the capitalist Green Deal.
Climate Crisis
Jessica Corbett: Private Equity Executives Hide Behind Philanthropy as Their Firms Ravage the Earth
It’s a “serious problem” that executives can invest in fossil fuels and then “greenwash their reputations.” Read Here
Austerity
Vanessa Beeley – GILETS JAUNES: Civilians in Police Crosshairs as Macron Adopts Totalitarian State-Practices to Suppress Dissent
An excellent piece describing state brutality in France. As the EU continues to deteriorate due to neo-liberalism we will see scenes like these in France, or similar ones in Catalonia, more often in EU nations. […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Forget the record deficits and public debt – focus on what the net spending is doing to advance well-being
MMT economists have always held the view that a focus on deficits and debt aimed at assessing solvency thresholds and the like has never been justified and has underpinned destructive policy interventions that have undermined […]
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