Spain’s coalition between PSOE and Unidas Podemos gambled on rowing back austerity measures in a period of relative calm – but now, facing a historic recession, its forces find themselves increasingly at odds.
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Economics
Phillip Inman: Household debt in UK ‘worse than at any time on record’
The classic question in economics is: If capitalists pay their workers too little, who is going to buy the capitalists’ products. Here is the answer. The same workers, who have to borrow from the banks, […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and Supranational Centralization
In 1945 Karl Polanyi outlined a vision of a peacetime global state system with a political economy in which small countries could be both sovereign and democratic. The present essay reviews developments between then and […]
Climate Crisis
Common Dreams – ‘A Win for the Planet!’: Dutch Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling Mandating Climate Action
Advocates for climate action celebrated Friday after the Supreme Court of the Netherlands upheld a landmark ruling that found the Dutch government is obligated under international human rights law to more ambitiously reduce greenhouse gas […]
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