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Danny Dorling – Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today

September 16, 2024 Ben 0

The growth in child poverty in the UK is horrendous and without comparison among advanced economies. Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. Cross-posted from The Conversation Children’s lives […]

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Yonatan Berman, Tora Hovland – The cost of austerity: How UK public spending cuts led to 190,000 excess deaths

June 20, 2024 Ben 0

When will politicians learn that austerity kills? Yonatan Berman is a Lecturer in Economics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute […]

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Politico – France and Italy denounced by European Commission for overspending

June 19, 2024 Ben 0

Austerity is back, just in time for the French election. Read the article HERE.

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Emma Dowling – Rethinking Care: From Privatisation to Solidarity

October 4, 2023 Ben 0

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

October 4, 2023 Ben 0

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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EU politics

AP News: Political neophyte Stefanos Kasselakis elected new leader of Greece’s main opposition Syriza party

September 25, 2023 Ben 0

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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Austerity

Ben Wray – So Far, Britain’s Employers Have Been Winning the Class War Over Inflation

September 25, 2023 Ben 0

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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Austerity

Polykarpos Georgiadis: In Greece, social despair is helping the rise of fascist conspiracy theories

August 28, 2023 Ben 0

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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EU politics

Moira Lavelle: Greece Just Elected the Most Right-Wing Parliament Since the Return to Democracy

June 28, 2023 Ben 0

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

May 22, 2023 Ben 0

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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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, and Doug Nicholls

September 4, 2026 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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