Ms Merkel’s Incredible V-Recovery: Germany still has half a million less people in work than before the crisis

There are two economic theories that have been thoroughly discredited, but are still ubiquitous in mainstream media: austerity enables economic growth and giving the rich still more money results in a trickle-down effect creating a […]

Inside the Eurozone the creditors have too much power, because they can threaten to cut off money to a member’s banking system or throw you out of the club. The Eurozone has not learnt this […]

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. Read here