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Ben Wray – US Resistance to French ‘Facebook Tax’ Reveals How Power Works in Global Economic Hierarchy

July 12, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

  The US threat of tariff retribution on France for its Digital Services Tax shows how tax on corporate giants has little to do with fairness and a lot to do with global economic power […]

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Austerity

Ben Wray – Greece: Syriza’s Demise Shows the Left Shouldn’t Play the Warden in Debtors’ Prison

July 8, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Syriza were the great hope of the European left, but surrendering to the Troika meant their election defeat was all but inevitable Ben Wray is CommonSpace editor and co-author of “What is Scottish Independence For?”, […]

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Climate Crisis

Ben Wray – Are We Ready to Adapt to the Coming Age of Climate Refugees?

June 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The problem is that no one is seriously discussing most of the true consequences of the climate disaster. Plastic straws are almost irrelevant. This requires a policy upheaval that is nowhere to be seen. In […]

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Ben Wray – Two Years After Grenfell, the Need to Resist the Class Warfare of the Rich is Paramount

June 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

What Ben Wray describes here is true throughout the EU. Nothing is changing, not even climate policy. Nothing really changes, despite elections, the millions of media reports about politics, even the investigative exposures. Change is […]

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Ben Wray – Pompeo has Threatened to Undermine UK Democracy if Corbyn Becomes Prime Minister – Where’s the Outrage?

June 11, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

There has been radio silence from the BBC and the UK Government on United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s leaked threats to undermine UK democracy – but it’s as serious as it can get. […]

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Austerity

Ben Wray: May’s demise may just be the end of the beginning for the Conservative Party’s decline

May 25, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Ben Wray of CommonSpace analyses what Theresa May’s resignation may mean for her own fractious party Read here

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EU politics

Ben Wray: State Aid – Not Immigration – Is the Debate About the EU We Should Have Had

May 23, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Never have people talked so much about something they have no idea about. That sums up the discussion about the EU, not only in Brexit UK but the rest of Europe. While the questions of […]

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Ben Wray – What Currency? A Question that Sharply Divides Backers of Scottish Independence

April 23, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Scottish National Party members are due to vote shortly on whether – given success in a future referendum – an independent Scotland would “sterlingise” or create its own currency Ben Wray is CommonSpace editor and […]

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Common Space – European governments are in no position to hand out lectures to Venezuela about people power

February 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

European colonialism is back with a vengeance. One may think of Maduro whatever one wants, but there is no excuse for this sort of interference by EU member states governments. Instead of taking care of […]

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Common Space – 5 things you need to know about the UK-EU Political Declaration on Brexit

November 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is an excellent summing up of the agreement, very simple to understand. Thank you Common Space and Ben Wray By Ben Wray, Head of Policy & Research at Common Weal Cross-posted from Common Space […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 2

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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