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Moira Lavelle – Greek Unions Want Paid Time Off When It’s Too Hot to Work

August 5, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Greece’s latest heat wave in July highlighted the danger of 100°F-plus temperatures for workers toiling in the sun. Trade unions are proposing a sensible solution: mandatory, paid stoppages on outdoor work when temperatures reach dangerous […]

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Brave New Europe – Costas Lapavitsas: The State of the EU Economy

May 11, 2024 Ben Wray 1

The State of the Union is a series of events organized by alternative media organizations Brave New Europe and Conter ahead of the European Parliamentary elections. Costas Lapavitsas is a professor of economics at SOAS […]

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EU politics

Euronews – ‘Punishment beatings’ used at EU-backed Greek refugee camps and detention centres, alleges NGO

January 24, 2024 Ben Wray 0

“Staff have abused refugees for talking in line, coughing, and not cleaning their rooms, the Border Violence Monitoring Network claims.” Read the full article HERE.

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C.J. Polychroniou: Endgame for Syriza? The Unbearable Lightness of the Greek Left

September 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

With the election of a Goldman Sachs centrist as leader, Syriza has ceased to have any affinity to leftist politics in any shape or form. C.J. Polychroniou is a political economist/political scientist who has taught […]

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

September 25, 2023 Ben Wray 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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Polykarpos Georgiadis: In Greece, social despair is helping the rise of fascist conspiracy theories

August 28, 2023 Ben Wray 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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BBC: Greek fires rage after migrant tragedy near border

August 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A deadly case study in how crises – in this case climate and refugees – interweave. Read the article HERE.

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Eleni Stamatoukou: Greek ‘Towel Movement’ Seeks to Reclaim Beaches

August 7, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A growing number of Greeks are taking to the streets to demand the restoration of free public access to the country’s beaches as enshrined in the law. Published in ‘Balkan Insight’. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

Greek shipwreck oracle: A horrible accident at sea or the inevitable function of militarised borders? – Interview with Lauren Markham

July 5, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The militarisation of the EU’s external borders replicates many of the deadly practices of the United States on its Mexican border Interview by Todd Miller, author of ‘Build Bridges Not Walls’ and editor of The […]

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

June 28, 2023 Ben Wray 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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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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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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