The May ’68 Movement was the start of a historical period of considerable reduction in social inequalities in France which ran out of steam later for quite different reasons.
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Thomas Piketty: May 1968 and inequality
Finance
Oxfam: OECD Inclusive Framework agrees two-pronged tax reform and 15 percent global minimum tax: Oxfam reaction
15% global minimum corporate tax rate (130 of 139 nations have agreed) “no more than a G7-money grab. Rich countries are forcing developing countries to choose between a raw deal or no deal…another form of […]
Economics
Eurostat – February 2023: Volume of retail trade down by 3.1% in EU year on year
Among Member States for which data are available, the largest monthly decreases in the total retail trade volume were registered in Slovenia (–10.5%), Hungary and Poland (both –2.0%) and Sweden (–1.6%). The highest increases were […]
Geopolitics
Alon Mizrahi – The US and Israel have already lost the war
This is taken from X, but apparently was first posted on Telegramm “We are witnessing history. Iran, to everyone’s surprise, is destroying American bases so thoroughly, on such a large scale, and so decisively that […]
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