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Craig Mackay – You Need to Balance Your Own Budget but the Government Doesn’t and Shouldn’t.

November 7, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Tory obsession with reducing the deficit with a programme of accelerating austerity is causing increasing harm to the great majority of working people in the UK. By refusing to borrow to invest in infrastructure […]

Finance

Richard Murphy – There is no possible right wing defence for tax havens

November 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Murphy goes through and refutes the typical arguments of the right wing in defense of tax havens. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues […]

Finance

Michael Oswald – The Spider’s Web

November 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

A film review by Mathew D. Rose and David Shirreff Should you be having difficulties making sense of the “Paradise Papers” or simply not know much about tax havens, then Michael Oswald’s documentary film “The […]

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Corruption

Corporate Europe Observatory – The Great Gas Lock-in: Industry lobbying behind the EU push for new gas infrastructure

November 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

A new report from CEO shows why the fire-power of the gas industry makes it a powerful and effective lobbying force in Brussels and national capitals. Meanwhile, public interest groups have a fraction of the resources and […]

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ICCT – Real-world vehicle fuel consumption gap in Europe at all-time high

November 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Discrepancy between passenger vehicle type-approval test results and in-use fuel consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at 42 per cent, with first indications of a possible slowdown in the growth of the gap. The International […]

Finance

Ann Pettifor: Those who helped break the economy cannot fix it

November 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Pettifor doubts that the Bank of England had any good reasons to increase interest rates – other than to serve the financial interests in the City of London. Ann Pettifor is an Economist, director of […]

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Stewart Lansley and Howard Reed – Making universal basic income work: the incremental approach

November 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Universal Basic Income is an idea which has seen a phenomenal increase in interest throughout much of Europe. In the recent French national elections a number of candidates supported it in various forms. Britian’s Labour […]

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EU politics

Chris Bambery – Franco, Spanish Nationalism, and Catalonia

November 5, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

To what degree is the legacy of Spain’s former fascist dictator Francisco Franco determining government policy with regard to Basque and Catalan autonomy movements? Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator, and a supporter […]

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Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte – Catalan independence is not just ‘nationalism’ – it’s a rebellion against nationalism

November 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte argue that Catalonia’s independence movement is driven by solidarity – and resistance to far-right Spanish nationalists Ignasi Bernat is an academic sociologist and social movement activist based in Barcelona David Whyte, is  Professor of Socio-legal […]

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Luke Stobart – Catalonia: Past and Future

November 2, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a  very long article and a few weeks old, but provides a wealth of background material concerning the current conflict in Catalonia Luke Stobart is a writer based in London and Barcelona Cross-posted […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

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Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

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Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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