Yesterday, French rail workers kicked off months of rolling strikes against Macron’s attacks on their working conditions.
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Jacobin: Saving France’s Railways
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: Blatant Opportunism
Tory MPs cynically disguise their concern for the profits of fossil fuel companies as concern for the poor. Read Here
Finance
Jan Fichtner: The Cayman conundrum: why is one tiny archipelago the largest financial centre in Latin America and the Caribbean?
A good summary of the role of the Cayman Islands as a tax haven. Hopefully that will start to change in 2020 after the UK Parliament passed a law imposing public registers of beneficial ownership […]
Inequality
Guthrie Scrimgeour – You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns
‘Welcome to the fully privatised city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
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