What Prem Sikka writes is relevant for most of Europe. Austerity has not only meant cutting back necessary public spending, ubt also a major inequlity in the distribution of wealth. In the meantime we are seeing in France and Spain that massive police repression is the only means to maintain the diktat of austerity.
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