Upon learning that he was about to die, the Swedish-American labour activist and songwriter Joe Hill wrote a telegram to Bill Haywood, the founder of the Industrial Workers of the World. It read: “Goodbye, Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize!”
EU politics
Vila Web: Spain’s judicial crackdown on Catalonia’s pro-independence protests: over 600 new indictments in six months
Alerta Solidària reports stepped-up repression in the wake of the protests that followed the announcement of the verdict against the leaders of the 2017 independence bid Read here
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: MMT and Labour’s fiscal rule
Simon Wren-Lewis, one of the architects of the British Labour Party´s “Fiscal Rule”, replies to Bill Mitchell`s criticism (read here and here) Read here
Geopolitics
Ali Dinçer: Gaza – Turkey’s new tightrope
While the news from Gaza has been overwhelmingly bleak , a rare silver lining has been the relative restraint of Turkish president Erdogan, who made unexpectedly cool-headed calls for de-escalation. Read HERE Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
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