Jacobin: Saving France’s Railways

“Bourgeois virtues pay off in a bourgeois society – where there is a large middle class. But they don’t pay off in a 1% takes all society where wealth is accumulated in shadier ways.” Read […]

Two weeks of nationwide industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron’s planned overhaul of the pension system have disrupted railways and roads, shut some schools and brought more than half a million people onto the streets. […]

Following the 1990s post-reunification period and since the beginning of monetary union, Germany’s current account has grown substantially. In the crisis years, Germany’s lost about 15 percentage points of GDP in its external investments, but […]