A decade of austerity shredded public services and left millions of workers on the brink. It would be hard to imagine a policy more destructive to our capacity to respond to the coronavirus crisis.
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EU politics
Kjell Östberg – Sweden’s Welfare State Was a Product of Class Struggle
‘Swedish Social Democracy is often idealized as a benign reformist force that delivered welfare to the grateful masses. Yet the Swedish social model was the product of conflict — and a working-class radicalism that the […]
Finance
rest of world: Uber faces an unlikely competitor in Brazil: the government’s taxi app
Rio de Janeiro’s Taxi.Rio app has caught up to Uber’s technology, now it has a few other aces up its sleeve. Read Here Photo:Dennis Jarvis licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
Climate Crisis
Investigate Europe: The truth behind the EU’s National Energy and Climate Plans
A litany of evasions, missed deadlines, questionable claims and ignorance…real and feigned. Some member states even openly state that they do not plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Read here
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