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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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Sean Bell – EU vs Catalonia: ‘The Votes of All of the People Must Be Equal’

July 2, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

A bloody disgrace! Democracy has become a farce in the EU. Sean Bell is a reporter at Common Space Cross-posted from Common Space Picture courtesy of GUE/NGL The absence of Catalan MEPs vetoed by Spanish […]

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Common Space: ‘A sanitised version of the nineteenth century workhouse’: 10 damning conclusions from the new UN poverty report

May 23, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This was all done during EU membership. Where was the social and labour protection so touted by the EU? Read here

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Robin McAlpine – Scotland: We March Because You’re Failing Us

May 11, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The title could be from the Yellow Vests in France or Extinction Rebellion. It is about Scotland. Europe’s political class has failed its citizens. Economically, socially, and with regard to climate change. If you go […]

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Rhiannon J Davies – Uber Drivers on Strike Over Company’s ‘Orgy of Greed’

May 9, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Uber drivers in the United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) have been on strike in Glasgow, London, Birmingham, and Nottingham ahead of the company’s stock market […]

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Keith Baker – Paying for your sins: Why carbon offsetting is not a serious approach to climate change

May 1, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

If the Scottish National Partyis to back up its “climate emergency” statement with serious substance, then carbon offsetting proposals must be rejected outright Dr Keith Baker is co-founder of the Energy Policy Research initiative Cross-posted […]

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Common Space: Scotland should get rid of Mastercard and Visa and introduce national payment service

April 18, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the first of a two-part series, financial IT systems expert Peter Ryan writes for Common Weal on his latest policy paper, ‘Paying Our Way’. which advocates for the creation of a publicly owned payments […]

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Raphael ‘Tsavkko’ Garcia – How Spain has created a diplomatic crisis over Catalonia

March 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Spain and Catalonia have been living in a climate of open conflict since the suspension of the Estatut d’Autonomia de Catalunya (the Catalan Statute of Autonomy) in 2010 and with increasing intensity since the unofficial […]

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Sean Bell – There are lessons from the American Left for Labour’s antisemitism controversies

March 11, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Without a doubt, Common Space is currently one of the most interesting political websites in Europe. The discussion around Scottish independence has served as a catalyst by which a broad range of issues are being […]

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Common Space: MEPs condemn ‘unequal treatment’ as European Parliament blocks Catalan conference but allows far-right Spanish event

February 20, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The far-right Spanish party Vox will accuse the Catalan independence movement of a “coup d’état” at the European Parliament in March, while an event featuring Catalan President Quim Torra and former president Carles Puigdemont has […]

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The Debt Delusion by John Weeks

November 14, 2019 1

Book review by Mathew D. Rose When Ha-Joon Chang exhorted: “We need an economic literacy campaign so people understand the language used by the ruling class”, he was probably thinking of books like John Weeks’ […]

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Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

October 22, 2019 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century.  Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication of the title was that it […]

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