EU politics
Politico – France and Italy denounced by European Commission for overspending
Austerity is back, just in time for the French election. Read the article HERE.
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Yanis Varoufakis – Wolfgang Schäuble (1942-2023)
We are sure there will be much more in-depth commentary on Schäuble following his passing, but this short post at least gets the ball rolling in the right direction. Cross-posted from Yanis Varoufakis’ blog Wolfgang […]
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Emma Dowling – Rethinking Care: From Privatisation to Solidarity
With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity. Emma Dowling is a sociologist at the University of […]
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Niels Nyholt – How school and hospital closures affect political support
A study finds that school closures do move rural communities and the working class away from mainstream parties and towards right-wing populists. Niels Nyholt is a Postdoc in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus […]
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AP News: Political neophyte Stefanos Kasselakis elected new leader of Greece’s main opposition Syriza party
A centrist banker who has lived in the US for most of his life and has no political experience has taken over Syriza. You couldn’t make it up. Read the article HERE.
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Ben Wray – So Far, Britain’s Employers Have Been Winning the Class War Over Inflation
Since inflation started rising, British capitalists have been raking in massive profits while workers have suffered a disastrous wage slump. Yet the Bank of England still wants to boost unemployment in case workers develop their […]
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Polykarpos Georgiadis: In Greece, social despair is helping the rise of fascist conspiracy theories
Greece’s recent elections saw two new far-right parties enter parliament for the first time. Grinding austerity is not fueling continued popular resistance but the rise of conspiracy theorist cranks who promote war among the poor. […]
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Moira Lavelle: Greece Just Elected the Most Right-Wing Parliament Since the Return to Democracy
Greece’s elections on Sunday brought a conservative majority — and seats in parliament for three far-right parties. With the collapse of the left-wing alternative to austerity, neofascist and ultra-Orthodox groups are pulling Greece to the […]
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Yanis Varoufakis – Our defeat in context: Greece’s Erdogan-isation is almost complete
Greek voters didn’t want to hear the truth: that the Greek state and private sector is more bankrupt than ever Cross-posted from Yanis Varoufakis’ blog The people spoke. Unlike in 2019, when MeRA25 won nine […]
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Andreas Sartzekis: Four years of ultraliberal break-up and attacks on rights in Greece
After much hesitation, Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis junior has set the legislative elections for 21 May. Although the polls show his party, New Democracy (ND), in the lead, the results are uncertain, so great is […]